Brackloon

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon, from 43 m² to 622,951 m² (62.3 ha, 153.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Brackloon 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  carry out alterations to front elevation with extensions to existing dwelling along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2626

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  Alterations to the plans & site layout previously granted under P22/828, which included the renovation and extension of existing cottage, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460702

• 26 Sept 2022Conditional

  RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO RENOVATE EXISTING GARAGES INCLUDING AN UPGRADE TO THE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PROVIDING A NEW SITE ENTRANCE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22828

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION WITHIN THE SCHOOL SITE. THE BLOCK WILL INCLUDE 3 NO. NEW CLASSROOMS, 1 NO. SET ROOM, 1 NO. USER ASSISTED WC/SHOWER AND 2 NO. CLASSROOM BASE SPECIAL NEEDS SUITE AND CIRCULATION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, REMOVAL OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PROVISION OF NEW SYSTEM, RELOCATION OF PLAYING PITCH, NEW FENCING AND ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES. THIS APPLICATION WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22550

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION TO AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH THE UPGRADING OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22357

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY BLOCK OF PREFABRICATED TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATIO WITHIN THE SCHOOL SITE, CONSISTING OF 2 NO. CLASSROOMS AND SANITARY FACILITIES. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20808

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH A NEW TERTIARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING EXTENSION OF SITE BOUNDARIES AT THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18593

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Brackloon Woods SAC 000471
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knappagh Woods 001520
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brackloon Woods 000471

Recorded monuments

• MA087-047001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA087-047002 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_191 (ZIP).

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.

• Brackloon, Westport5 sales

Name

Brackloon · Breac-chluain

Area

1,352,970 m² (135.3 ha, 334.33 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Knappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knappagh electoral division: 817 people in 299 households; 84% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bofara, Boheh, Cloonagh, Killeencoff, Knappagh More, Tawnynameeltoge or Midgefield

Placenames

Brackloon 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.