Kilbrackan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbrackan, from 168 m² to 198,639 m² (19.86 ha, 49.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbrackan 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.

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  Proposed renovations to an existing storey and a half type derelict dwelling house together with proposed construction of a single storey extension to service same, construction of a detached garage, installation of a suitable on-site sewerage treatment system with polishing filter, realignment of existing agricultural driveway and creation of new entrance to service the proposed development, boundary fence/walls and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560151

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  Proposed change of house type from that previously granted under Planning Ref. 22/221, consisting of a bungalow-type dwelling house in place of the previously approved dormer bungalow along with a detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, a suitable on-site sewerage treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560120

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22221

• 18 Aug 2022Conditional

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance off existing agricultural lane, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22165

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  erect domestic garage

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1996

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  erect new dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18271

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilbrackan.

Recorded monuments

• LE030-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W-facing slope of a low N-S ridge, which is overlooked by a higher ridge c. 100m to the W. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) N-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (at W: H 0.2m) elsewhere. It is surrounded by a field bank and hedge NW-NE. There is a fosse (at E: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 2m) N-SE represented by a band of rushes (Wth 3-4m) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 7m) and causeway are at E. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 14 October 2019

Architectural heritage

• Kilbrackan House, country house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey double-pile country house, built c.1825, undergoing programme of restoration. M-profile hipped slate roof reinstated 2002. Roughcast-rendered stone walls with tooled quoins. Replacement timber sash and casement windows with sandstone sills and red brick reveals. Round-headed stair light to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening to south. Outbuildings to rear yard include a multiple-bay two-storey stone coach house. Disused well to rear yard.

• Kilbrackan Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry road bridge spanning a watercourse between Glasshouse Lake and Rockfield Lough, built c.1840. Rock-faced ashlar stone abutments, rock-faced ashlar voussoirs with dressed arrises to segmental arch rings, rendered soffit. Rock-faced spandrels, parapet and coping of large projecting stones. Squared rubble stone wing walls with cut stone coping, two buttresses to north side of western approach.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilbrackan.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Kilbrackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Kilbrackan · Coill Bhreacán

Area

923,012 m² (92.3 ha, 228.08 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Carrigallen East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigallen East electoral division: 302 people in 130 households; 73% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavore, Cloghlough, Corracreeny, Drumergoole, Drumsillagh, Kilnamarve, Portlongfield (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Kilbrackan 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.