Briarhill
Townland in the civil parish of Dysart, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Cnoc na nDriseog
- Area
- 33.3 ha
- 82 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,285 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briarhill, from 160 m² to 85,279 m² (8.53 ha, 21.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Briarhill 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
12 Nov 2021Conditional
permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, a detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, new site boundaries, install a new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211367
22 Oct 2021Conditional
permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211302
1 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for a proposed two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development work. *Significant Further Information received on 21/01/2022*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211090
27 Jun 2019Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and vehicular road entrance.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19511
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 Briarhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briarhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Briarhill.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Briarhill.
- 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 Briarhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Briarhill · Cnoc na nDriseog
- Area
- 333,291 m² (33.33 ha, 82.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Dysart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dysart electoral division: 1,034 people in 323 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumgooter, Dysart, Grangebellew, Milltown, Rathdrumin, Windmill
- Placenames
- Briarhill 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.