Brackloon West

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon West, from 62 m² to 188,062 m² (18.81 ha, 46.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Dec 2022N/a

  Intensification of production of broiler chickens from 100,000 to 112,000 birds at the existing facility and within the existing four broiler chicken houses, including all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 221074

• 14 Oct 2021N/a

  INTENSIFICATION OF THE PRODUCTION OF BROILER CHICKENS FROM 100,000 TO 112,000 BIRDS AT THE EXISTING FACILITY AND WITHIN THE EXISTING BROILER CHICKEN HOUSES, INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. THE APPLICATION RELATES TO A DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL LICENCE. AN EIS ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211093

• 13 Oct 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK/PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211087

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  RETAIN AS BUILT THE DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE CONSISTING OF THE 2 NO. CONTROL ROOMS BUILDINGS WHICH SERVICE FOUR BROILER CHICKEN HOUSES, AND FOR 2 NO. REPOSITIONED SILOS. THE DEVELOPMENT ON THIS SITE COMPROMISES AN ACTIVITY REQUIRIING AN INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL LICENSE

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21457

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BROILER CHICKEN HOUSES AND CONSTRUCTION OF 4 REPLACEMENT BROILER CHICKEN HOUSES, TO THOSE GRANTED PERMISSION AND CONSTRUCTED UNDER P88/588 & P90/79 NUMBERING 5 IN TOTAL, 2 OF WHICH WERE TOTALLY DEMOLISHED IN 2017, SAVE FOR FLOORS, RISING WALLS AND FOUNDATIONS DUE TO PREVIOUS STORM DAMAGE, ALL OF WHICH HAVE EQUIVALENT POPULATION OF 100,000 BIRDS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING SILOS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18551

• 20 Oct 2017N/a

  DEMOLISH EXISTING BROILER CHICKEN HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT 4 REPLACEMENT BROILER CHICKEN HOUSES, TO THOSE GRANTED UNDER P88/588 & P90/749 NUMBERING 5 IN TOTAL 2 OF WHICH WERE TOTALLY DEMOLISHED IN 2017, SAVE FOR FLOORS, RISING WALLS AND FOUNDATIONS DUE TO STORM DAMAGE ALL OF WHICH HAVE EQUIVALENT POPULATION OF 100,000 BIRDS TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17825

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 Brackloon West.

Recorded monuments

• MA092-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a prominent rise with good views over an expanse of lowlying, wettish pasture to SW–W. Undulating terrain to N–NE rises to a gentle ridge. A farmstead lies immediately to E–SE. This rath has been partly levelled. It survives as a broadly oval area (42.8m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) defined by a levelled bank/scarp (Wth c. 3m; H 0.2) which remains distinct at NE–E and S–NW. Outside the scarp on the W half there are traces of a fosse and external bank. The fosse (Wth 2.5m) is clearly defined S–W but is reduced to a slight depression W–N. The external bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.8m) can be traced at SSW−W, merging with a broad external slump/fall in ground level (Wth 5.5-6m; H 2.5m). A slight terrace (Wth c. 3m) outside the rath scarp at NE–E probably also preserves the original curve of the fosse and external bank. A farm shed abuts the rath scarp at SE edge of the rath, overlying the fosse and outer bank. The central and E sectors of the interior are level, but there is a marked fall of ground from centre to S and W. A field wall, on a NW−SE axis, crosses the interior to NE of centre. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2022

• MA092-072 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on gently rising ground overlooking Bekan Lough, which is c. 250m to E. A modern house and barn are immediately to W–NW. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 45-50m) breached at W by an access road leading to a rectangular building, which occupies the centre of the interior; the building, on a NE–SW axis, is named ‘R. C. Chapel’. The enclosure and the building are not shown on the 1917 edition. The levelled outline of the enclosure is visible in an aerial photograph (GSI M 95 –6; Roll 213, pr. 32; SMR file). This enclosure has been levelled, but outline of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 40-45m) can be traced: At N–E an ephemeral undulation merges with natural contours, at E–S the arc of a levelled bank can be discerned, and at S–SW a field fence preserves the curve of the enclosure. At W–NW the backyard area of a modern dwelling has obliterated all surface trace of the enclosure. A shallow depression (c. 15m E–W; c. 8m N–S) extends across the centre of the interior; this would appear to correspond with the location of the R. C. chapel, which is likely to have been late 18th/early 19th-century in date. However, according to local tradition, a slightly raised area (c. 7m NNE–SSW; c. 11m ESE–WNW) in the S–SE of the interior, partly obscured by a number of conifers and a post and wire fence, marks the site of a church. There is also a tradition that burials took place here when the church was in use. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackloon West.

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 Brackloon West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Brackloon West · Breac-chluain Thiar

Area

2,015,343 m² (201.53 ha, 498 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

Bekan, Cloonacurry, Cregganbrack, Greenwood, Killoveeny, Lissaniska, Loughanboy

Placenames

Brackloon West 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.