Lugbriscan
Townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth; in Irish Log Brioscáin
- Area
- 17.1 ha
- 42 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 25,018 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugbriscan, from 2,355 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 67,422 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Lugbriscan 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
14 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for Change of house-type previously granted permission under planning reference no. 2460679 & 2560447 and associated site development works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660558
22 Apr 2026Conditional
RED III Application - Permission for the erection and installation of (i) a new single storey detached flat roofed biomass boiler unit with an attached fuel store and flue in accordance with the Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development; (ii) with all associated siteworks, services and landscaping to facilitate the proposed development
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660225
14 Jul 2025Conditional
Variations to the Site Layout as Approved under planning reference 2460679
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560447
4 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a Wastewater Treatment System and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460679
15 Oct 2024N/a
Permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460617
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 Lugbriscan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lugbriscan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lugbriscan.
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 Lugbriscan.
- 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 Lugbriscan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Lugbriscan · Log Brioscáin
- Area
- 170,534 m² (17.05 ha, 42.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathcor electoral division: 1,484 people in 467 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Galtrimsland, Rathcor, Seecrin
- Placenames
- Lugbriscan 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.