Bracklagh
Townland in the civil parish of Addergoole, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Bhreaclach
- Area
- 715.9 ha
- 1,769 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 20,151 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracklagh, from 5 m² to 706,694 m² (70.67 ha, 174.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Bracklagh 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
26 Apr 2024Conditional
The development shall consist of planning permission for the demolition of an existing shed, planning permission for alterations and modifications to an existing dwelling house, planning permission also to extend the existing dwelling house and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission as per the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460245
13 Jul 2022Conditional
PERMISSION TO FILL LANDS WITH INERT SOIL FOR THE PURPOSE OF LAND RECLAMATION, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22572
6 Mar 2020Conditional
COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITION 16 OF P00/1507 "THE COLUMN DESIGN TO THE FRONT PORCH SHALL BE REMOVED FROM THE OVERALL DESIGN OF THE HOUSE AND REPLACED IF REQUIRED BY A SOLID PORCH. A REVISED FRONT ELELVATION SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO AND AGREED IN WRITING WITH MAYO CO CO PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT" RETAIN AMENDMENT TO FRONT BAY WINDOW TO INCORPORATE HIPPED ROOF DESIGN AS OPPOSED TO A FLAT ROOF PROPOSAL GRANTED UNDER P00/1507. RETENTION OF SHED TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY ALTHOUGH THE DESCRIPTION OF P00/1507 REFRES TO A DOMESTIC SHED THERE IS NO RECORD OF SAME ON FILE AND IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE SHED CONSTRUCTED ON SITE IS LARGER THAN ORIGINALLY GRANTED. REVISED BOUNDARY OF DEVLEOPMENT SITE TO COMPLY WITH THE BOUNDARY AS REGISTERED WITH THE LAND REGISTRY.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20165
1 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18745
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144
Recorded monuments
- MA059-006 Hilltop enclosure
Description
Situated on top of a high, steep-sided hill, which has been planted with deciduous trees. The Crumpaun River skirts the base of the hill on the E side. This hilltop enclosure consists of an oval-shaped area (c. 85m NW−SE; c. 65m NE−SW) defined by a low bank (Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m at W) of earth and stone, which encloses the summit of the hill. The internal ground level rises from the perimeter towards the centre. There is a cairn, erected by the Ordnance Survey, in the SW quadrant of the interior, marking the highest point on the hill. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy and Paddy O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 December 2017
Architectural heritage
- Grouse Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey shooting lodge, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan. "Restored", 2000. For sale, 2010. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-octagonal slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on roughcast cut-limestone eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Round-headed central door opening with rusticated rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".
- Crumpaun Bridge, bridge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch hump back road bridge over river, "unfinished" 1829; extant 1838. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked rubble stone walls centred on submerged triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north-west) elevation having tooled cut-sandstone pyramidal capping with tooled cut-sandstone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered rounded coping. Series of three segmental arches between paired cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates with drag edged rusticated sandstone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Crumpaun River with unkempt banks to river.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Bracklagh.
- 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 Bracklagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bracklagh · An Bhreaclach
- Area
- 7,159,327 m² (715.93 ha, 1,769.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Addergoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Glenhest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenhest electoral division: 257 people in 104 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beltra, Boggy, Cloondaff, Letterkeeghaun, Prughlish
- Placenames
- Bracklagh 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.