Briskagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briskagh, from 963 m² to 501,120 m² (50.11 ha, 123.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Briskagh 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.

• 19 Sept 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360690

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  a new lean-to easy feed cubicle house with automatic scraper and a new roof over existing silage slab. This will be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18647

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI018-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. No surface trace evident of monument depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, immediately below brow of low rise. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.2m; W 1.3m). Enclosure heavily masked by overgrowth with only verge of interior accessible at E. Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and fosse best preserved along NW arc. Field boundary, shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map running tangentially to S side, has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-253 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low hill with an extensive view NNE->ESE. A limestone upright (H 1.04m) which is rectangular in cross-section (0.3m NE-SW; 0.4m NW-SE) and tapers at the top to a roughly rounded point. Its edges have been worn smooth by cattle, who have also worn down the ground around its base. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Briskagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Briskagh · Broisceach

Area

1,872,537 m² (187.25 ha, 462.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Shanid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

542 people lived in 208 households in the Shanid electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyane, Cahernagh, Dooncaha, Moneymohill, Shanid Lower, Shanid Upper

Placenames

Briskagh 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.