Bracklagh

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracklagh, from 412 m² to 161,092 m² (16.11 ha, 39.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  new septic tank and percolation area including the disuse/removal of existing septic tank together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560

• 20 Sept 2023Refused

  The Development will consist of: The construction of a new residential dwelling bungalow house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services, the house will be 2 bedroom house with garage for car park accessibility, the house will be 5.138 meters high from foot path level. the house will be guarded by gates and hedges.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360385

• 12 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21107

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 Bracklagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of an E-facing slope, with a stream/drain 12m to S coinciding with the S boundary of the townland. Views are most extensive to E, overlooking lowlying pasture. Raised oval area (30.3m N–S; 23.7m E–W) defined by an earthen scarp (H 1.4m at E, 2m at W), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.3m at E), with ephemeral remnants of an outer bank at NW and SE. The scarp is pronounced, with a fairly vertical face which suggests that it may have been modified in recent times. It is lowest at NE−SE, and there is a marked ramp-like slump (Wth 3m) at E, which extends as a causeway (Wth c. 4m) over the fosse, most likely indicating the original entrance. The fosse is visible as a slight depression marked by greater density of rushes, and is most clearly defined on the E half of the rath. The outer edge of the fosse at W appears to be slightly truncated by a field ditch that flanks a modern road on a N−S axis. The outer bank is evident as a slight rise (Wth c. 2m; ext. H 0.35m at NW). The W half of the interior is occupied by an oval rise (16.6m N–S; 9m E–W; H 1m). The rise has a fairly level top (c. 10m N–S; c. 6m E–W) with sloping sides that merge gradually with the rest of the interior. At the N end of the top of the rise, there is a circular depression (diam. c. 3m; D 0.4m). The interior surface is uneven underfoot with several low rises and small hollows, and is covered in long grass and clumps of brambles. There is another rath (MA102-029----) located c. 100m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 September 2022

• MA102-029 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise with a fall of ground to S and W. There are good views to W over a broad expanse of lowlying grassland and bog. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; an arc of hachuring curving SE−N and truncated by later field boundaries is shown on the 1916 edition. Slightly raised, broadly oval area (c. 29.3m N–S; c. 23m N–S) defined SE–S by a dilapidated scarp (H 0.4-1.4m) and at S–N by remnants of a bank (Wth c. 1.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m, at W) evident as a low degraded rise. The enclosing element has been levelled at NNE–ESE. A short section of the bank at SW is faced and topped with stone, probably the result of relatively recent modification. A band (Wth c. 2m) of denser vegetation outside the bank at SW–NW may indicate an infilled fosse. A property fence on a NNE–SSW axis crosses the rath to W of centre, and a perpendicular fence extends to ESE through the SE quadrant. Grass cover; a few hawthorn and alder trees on the scarp at SE; hawthorn and sycamore line the field fences. It overlooks another rath (MA102-028----) which is located c. 100m downslope to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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.

No address of the register names Bracklagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bracklagh · An Bhreaclach

Area

1,952,691 m² (195.27 ha, 482.52 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Bekan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bekan electoral division: 776 people in 281 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belesker, Cloonbookeighter, Cloonbookoughter, Cloontumper, Cuilbeg, Drumaderry

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.