# Brackbaun, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeheny, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Breacbhán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,381,312 m² (138.13 ha, 341.33 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,430 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbeheny, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilbeheny.md
- Barony: Coshlea
- Electoral division: Kilbeheny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 270 people lived in 99 households in the Kilbeheny electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31598
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120512
- Centre: latitude 52.303929, longitude -8.166511 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackbaun, from 418 m² to 187,113 m² (18.71 ha, 46.24 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1673942: 187,113 m² (18.71 ha, 46.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673942.md
- Parcel 1648322: 154,302 m² (15.43 ha, 38.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648322.md
- Parcel 4659031: 73,773 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659031.md
- Parcel 573273: 42,092 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/573273.md
- Parcel 4930739: 41,979 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4930739.md
- Parcel 5476595: 33,505 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5476595.md
- Parcel 5618611: 19,971 m² (2 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5618611.md
- Parcel 1650424: 17,164 m² (1.72 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650424.md
- Parcel 4659033: 9,110 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659033.md
- Parcel 1625187: 6,696 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625187.md
- Parcel 4930734: 5,430 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4930734.md
- Parcel 1602264: 4,915 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602264.md
- Parcel 1617875: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617875.md
- Parcel 3385088: 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3385088.md
- Parcel 5687823: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5687823.md
- Parcel 1627346: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627346.md
- Parcel 4955140: 1,296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4955140.md
- Parcel 4930731: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4930731.md
- Parcel 3766780: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766780.md
- Parcel 1589021: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589021.md
- Parcel 3766784: 418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766784.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Brackbaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 15 Aug 2018, Limerick County Council 18817: Conditional. Permission. construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site work. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18817/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI058-012: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-012----. In woodland plantation. No surface remains visible. Depicted as an oval shaped enclosure on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021
- LI058-019: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-019----. This site was identified during Phase II test excavation of the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown road improvement scheme carried out by Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd in May 2006. The site was subsequently excavated [A035/000, E2306] between 24 June and 4 July 2006. It consisted of a burnt mound, whose area measured 17.5m (north-south) by 12m, located on the northern bank of a stream. The burnt mound sealed a trough, which had traces of a stone lining, concentrated mainly along the edges. This site was located 150m downstream of Site 4602A2 (see No. 1244 below), a burnt mound, and 600m downslope from Site 47001A, a ring-ditch site (see No. 1282 below, E2341) (McQuade, Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 115-8).
- LI058-020: Cremation pit, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-020----. This site was investigated under Ministerial Directive A035/00 in advance of the N8 road improvement scheme between Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. It was located on low-lying pastureland at the foothills of the Galtee Mountains and was situated 75m to the east of Site 4602A2 (see No. 1244 below, E2339) and 210m south-west of Site 4602A3 (see No. 1245 below, E2340). The site lay at 117.32m OD and the area of excavation measured 18m by 13m. A single cremation burial was excavated [E2338] on the site. The burial was contained within an upright food vessel that had been placed within an unlined pit. The pottery was fragmented, but most of the vessel survived. The cremated bone was deposited with black charcoal-rich silty sand and a similar deposit of black silty sand with a higher charcoal content was found beneath the food vessel. At the time of writing, specialist analysis is ongoing (McQuade, Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 125).
- LI058-021: Kiln - corn-drying, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-021----. This site was excavated under Ministerial Directive A035/00 in advance of the N8 road improvement between Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. It was located 75m to the west of a Bronze Age cremation burial (see No. 1243 above, E2338) and c. 135m west of an area of burning (see No. 1245 below, E2340). The area of excavation measured 60m by 20m. The site consisted of a large fulacht fiadh and two smaller spreads of burnt-mound material and a kiln. A kiln was located 20m north of the fulacht fiadh. It was subrectangular in plan and measured 2.74m by 0.9m. The fire bowl was located in its northern end and was 1.02m deep. The kiln was probably used for drying cereal crops. The results of specialist analysis of material recovered during excavation are awaited.
- LI058-022: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-022----. This site was excavated under Ministerial Directive A035/00 in advance of the N8 road improvement between Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. It was located 75m to the west of a Bronze Age cremation burial (see No. 1243 above, E2338) and c. 135m west of an area of burning (see No. 1245 below, E2340). The area of excavation measured 60m by 20m. The site consisted of a large fulacht fiadh and two smaller spreads of burnt-mound material and a kiln. The main feature on this site was a large fulacht fiadh located on the south end of the site, just west of the former river channel. A rectangular trough had been cut into the subsoil just 0.7m to the west of the river. The trough probably held water sourced from the river. It measured 5m by 1.9m and was 0.4m deep. Several large stones at the edges of the trough may have been part of a stone lining and there was a large timber (0.85m by 0.22m) and a number of wooden fragments at the base of the trough. The hearth was evident from an area of scorched earth immediately to the north of the trough. There were two adjoining pits located 4.5m to the north-west of the trough. These were 0.99m and 1.04m by 0.72m respectively and were up to 0.38m deep. These pits held fire debris, which may have been linked to the hearth. The trough and hearth were sealed by a large mound of black silty clay, with frequent inclusions of burnt stone and charcoal. This measured 19m by 13.5m and varied greatly in depth. It was an average of 0.14m deep towards the north-west and was up to 1m deep at the south-east edge. There were four smaller deposits of burnt material c. 25m north of the large mound. These spreads had a lower frequency of charcoal and the largest of them measured 11.5m by 5.3m. The others were between 1.7m by 1m and 2.6m by 2.5m and between 0.09m and 0.4m deep (McQuade, Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 102-4).
- LI058-023: Excavation - miscellaneous, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI058-023----. This site was investigated under Ministerial Directive A035/00 in advance of the N8 road improvement from Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, to Cashel, Co. Tipperary. It was located on low-lying land at the foothills of the Galtee Mountains to the north-east of a Bronze Age cremation burial (see No. 1243 above, E2338) and a fulacht fiadh (see No. 1244 above, E2339). Two phases of activity were evident on site. Phase 1 was represented by a series of stake- and post-holes and a pit. Three of the stake-holes formed a north-west to south-east oriented row which extended for 1.3m. The remaining post- and stake-holes had no coherent plan. The pit was 0.35m in diameter and 0.25m deep. Fragments of burnt animal bone and charcoal within the fill suggest that it may have been used to hold refuse. During Phase 2 a fire on site resulted in an accumulation of burnt material 0.05m deep. This covered an area measuring 4.5m by 3.9m. There were no finds from this site and the results of radiocarbon analysis are awaited.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brackbaun.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brackbaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackbaun.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/brackbaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/brackbaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/brackbaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Brackbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carrigeen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrigeen-120587.md
- Kiltankin (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kiltankin.md
- Knockcommane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockcommane.md
- Loughananna: https://everytownland.com/limerick/loughananna.md
- Skeheenaranky (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/skeheenaranky.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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