Briska Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Broisceach Bheag
- Area
- 108.3 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briska Beg, from 26 m² to 362,228 m² (36.22 ha, 89.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 67 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Briska Beg 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
24 Apr 2026N/a
restoring and renovating an existing derelict dwelling house, including a new site entrance, private domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660468
15 Aug 2025Conditional
domestic garage adjacent to dwelling house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25275
1 Feb 2023Conditional
retention of (i) milking parlour building with slatted tank, Dairy, plant, storage rooms, collecting yard, meal bin and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360046
24 Jan 2023Conditional
the construction of a single storey rear extension and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2338
19 Jan 2023N/a
Permission for retention of (i) milking parlour building with slatted tank, Dairy, plant, storage rooms, collecting yard, meal bin and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360020
23 Dec 2022Conditional
Modification of existing vehicular entrance, change of use of existing sub-standard dwelling to farm staff welfare facility/office use, demolition of flat roofed extension to existing sub-standard dwelling, construction of a new single storey replacement dwelling house, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2260017
23 Dec 2021N/a
the construction of a single storey detached dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and alterations to existing roadside boundary, new on-site waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211818
14 Sept 2021N/a
(a) the construction of a single storey detached dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage, (b) new vehicular entrance and alterations to existing roadside boundary, (c) new on-site waste water treatment system and (d) all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211285
30 Apr 2021Refused
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21570
30 Jun 2020Conditional
construction of a farm entrance adjacent to an existing entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20568
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Briska Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briska Beg.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having crenellated porch to front (north-west) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to porch having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to porch with timber panelled door. Rendered boundary walls terminating in pair of square-profile piers. Pair of square-profile rendered piers having render caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_879 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Briska Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Briska Beg · Broisceach Bheag
- Area
- 1,082,914 m² (108.29 ha, 267.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Clarina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarina electoral division: 1,993 people in 697 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycarney, Ballyveloge, Briska More, Elmpark Demesne, Faha Demesne
- Placenames
- Briska Beg 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.