Derrybrisk
Derrybrisk is a townland in the civil parish of Killanummery, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Doire Bhriosc.
- Area
- 72.9 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 7,348 m² (0.73 ha, 1.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrybrisk, from 512 m² to 114,071 m² (11.41 ha, 28.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrybrisk in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Derrybrisk in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
- LE014-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located just off the N-facing crest of a short E-W drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown subcircular area (diam. 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 6m; int. H 1-1.2m; ext. H 1.4m) SW-N-E, which is reduced to a scarp (max. H 2.7m) at S, and an external fosse (Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 0.4m) W-N-SE. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE014-014----) is c. 25m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE014-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is visible as a faint circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 349-8). This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 23.5m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.2m), and traces of a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.1m) NE-SE. There is no visible entrance, but the interior is cut by the line of a closed N-S field drain (Wth 1.5m) towards the perimeter at W. Rath (LE014-013----) is c. 25m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE014-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on low-lying ground between drumlins which lie to the N and S. It is depicted as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown D-shaped area, amounting to the SE quadrant of a circle, defined by a scarp (H 3m) adjacent to a railway cutting (L 25m) at N, a stone wall (L 18m) at W and an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) E-S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrybrisk.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derrybrisk, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrybrisk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derrybrisk · Doire Bhriosc
- Area
- 729,251 m² (72.93 ha, 180.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killanummery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Killanummery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 366 people lived in 138 households in the Killanummery electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawn, Drumduff, Drumrane, Gortlownan (Co. Sligo), Mullaghdoo, Sliganagh, Toberanania (Co. Sligo)
- Placenames
- Derrybrisk on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.