Briskil

145 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briskil, from 150 m² to 52,721 m² (5.27 ha, 13.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Briskil 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.

• 29 Jul 2024Conditional

  the following 1. Permission to refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new rear extension, 2. Permission to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460160

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  to erect an extension to rear of dwelling house, construct domestic garage, upgrade existing septic tank with a new sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2289

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to existing bungalow type dwelling house and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21159

• 11 Feb 2021Conditional

  proposed two storey extension to the side of the existing two storey dwelling house, in place of existing sunroom, proposed extension of existing front porch and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2137

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  for retention of a boundary wall

  Retention · Longford County Council, 17204

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 Briskil.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briskil.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Briskil, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Briskil · Briosc-choill

Area

1,351,440 m² (135.14 ha, 333.95 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh (Aghmuty), Cloonellan, Cloontagh, Kilnashee, Leitrim, Treel

Placenames

Briskil 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.