Brianstown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brianstown, from 4,236 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres) to 542,541 m² (54.25 ha, 134.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Brianstown 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.

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  proposed slatted cubicle shed (floor area 604.49sq.m.) with slurry storage tanks (781.26.0 sq.m.) and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17171

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

• LF013-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent NW–SE ridge in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 51.1m) enclosed by a levelled bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.4m; max. H 0.15m) with a partially infilled, wide, low, intervening fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.2m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.3m; H 0.2m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Traces of an outer fosse (Wth c. 3m) are also evident, though it is largely infilled from WSW–W–ENE and from ENE–E–SSE it is incorporated into a modern field drain. From SSE–S–WSW it is overlain by a disused laneway. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

• LF013-060 Country house
  Description

  Early 18th-century house, comprising two storeys over basement, constructed of well-dressed cut stone. Bence-Jones (1978, 47) recorded that there was originally a dormered attic in a high-pitched roof. The house was partially destroyed by fire in 1922 (local information). Following this the house was reconstructed but without the upper storey. Over the modified Venetian doorway are the coat of arms of Samuel Achmuty, the original owner of the house, and a date of 1731. This house replaced an earlier house (LF013-060001-) built by Arthur Auchmuty who was of Scottish descent. He was a captain in the Cromwellian army and defended Castle Forbes during the Irish rebellion of 1641 and later died in 1698 (Burke 1847, 736). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• Brianstown House, country house, 1730–1735 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile five-bay single-storey over half-basement country house, dated 1731, with three-bay single-storey ballroom addition built c. 1880 to southeast end having bowed end, with recent greenhouse extension to rear (southwest) elevation of ballroom. Two flat-roofed single-bay two-storey extensions to northwest side elevation. Hipped natural slate roof to main block with painted two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods; natural slate roof to ballroom extension having curved roof profile to southeast end and red brick chimneystack with moulded cut limestone dressings and terracotta chimney pots. Painted roughcast rendered walls to ground floor, painted smooth rendered walls to half basement level. Cut limestone quoins to corners of main block and ballroom extension; cut limestone eaves course to main block; and sting course (separating basement and ground floor level) to main block and ballroom. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut limestone sills. Cut limestone Gibbsian window surrounds to front elevation of main block, and carved limestone window surrounds to ballroom block. Square-headed window openings at half-basement level with cut limestone surrounds, cut limestone sills and replacement windows. Central round-headed door opening to main block with cut limestone Gibbsian surround, cut limestone tympanum over with carved coat-of-arms, and square-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door. Flight of limestone steps to main entrance. Steps flanked to either side by cut limestone parapet walls with moulded limestone coping over and terminated by cut limestone piers (on square-plan) with recessed rectangular panels and moulded limestone coping. Square-headed door opening to southeast end of ballroom block with carved limestone surround, replacement door and mature grounds to the northwest of Longford Town. Yard to the northwest of house (13401106). Main entrance gates to the southwest (13401107). Main approach avenue to house flanked by wrought-iron railings.

• Brianstown House, farmyard complex, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding associated with Brianstown House, built c. 1750, having single-storey shed attached to the north end. Pitched natural slate roof with rooflight (north end), chimneystack to the north gable end and bellcote with metal bell to the south gable end. Raised verge to the south gable end. Roughcast render over rubble stone construction, exposed to the south gable end. Square-headed window openings with pivoting windows at ground floor level, slit windows/loop hole openings at first floor level. Square-headed window opening to south gable end at ground floor level having horizontal sliding sash window. Tooled limestone sills to a number of the window openings. Square-headed doorway with battened timber half doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch, located towards the north end of the main (east) elevation having battened timber double doors with metal fittings. Square-headed loading bay to the south gable end at first floor level having battened timber fittings. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed shed attached to the north end of the east elevation. Four-bay single-storey shed attached to the north gable end having pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Located to the northwest of Brianstown House (13401105), and to the northwest of Longford Town. Modern corrugated-metal barn/hayshed to south

• Brianstown House, gates/railings/walls, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates serving Brianstown House (13401105), erected c. 1731, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting plinths, moulded string courses and moulded stepped capstone with ball finials over. Wrought-iron double leaf flat bar gates. Gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by sections of rubble stone boundary wall (on curved/quadrant-plan) having rubble stone coping over. Rubble limestone boundary estate walls to the north and the south. Located to the southeast of Brianstown House, at the start of long approach avenue to house, and to the northwest of Longford Town.

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 Brianstown, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1665 (ZIP).

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 Brianstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Brianstown · Baile Mhic Bhriain

Area

1,292,726 m² (129.27 ha, 319.44 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykenny, Cloondara, Cornollen, Fihoges, Tully

Placenames

Brianstown 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.