# Brittas, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Briotás. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 605,713 m² (60.57 ha, 149.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,143 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilcommon-ballinrobe-ra.md - Barony: Kilmaine - Electoral division: Kilcommon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34999 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150461 - Centre: latitude 53.638434, longitude -9.081446 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 1,298 m² to 133,251 m² (13.33 ha, 32.93 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 927146: 133,251 m² (13.33 ha, 32.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927146.md - Parcel 1004668: 101,988 m² (10.2 ha, 25.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004668.md - Parcel 900648: 93,660 m² (9.37 ha, 23.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900648.md - Parcel 910172: 72,267 m² (7.23 ha, 17.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910172.md - Parcel 1002898: 58,279 m² (5.83 ha, 14.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002898.md - Parcel 955783: 44,319 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955783.md - Parcel 941776: 28,143 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941776.md - Parcel 895604: 23,795 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895604.md - Parcel 916328: 20,429 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916328.md - Parcel 904843: 13,726 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904843.md - Parcel 932388: 8,542 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932388.md - Parcel 962865: 6,908 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962865.md - Parcel 884845: 1,298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/884845.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brittas in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 14 Feb 2020, Mayo County Council 2089: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, REMOVE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2089/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brittas. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA119-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA119-002----. In good grazing, on a very gently E-facing slope, providing good views. The ground rises gradually to W. Subcircular platform (39.4m N−S; c. 36m E−W) defined by a substantial scarp/bank, outside which it is enclosed by a broad, flat-based fosse. It is shown on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure, but the W side is now linear, with the effect that the site appears squarish in plan or subrectangular with rounded corners. It is difficult to examine due to dense overgrowth. The bank/scarp (Wth 3.5m at N, c. 4m at E; int. H c. 0.5m ; ext. H c. 2m at N, 1.7-1.8m at E and S) retains a slight internal lip on the E half, and has a sharply vertical external scarp dropping into the fosse. It appears rather linear at N and E, but curves slightly on the S side, with rounded corners at SE and SW. The scarp on the W side is distinctly linear and is lower and more dilapidated than elsewhere. Towards the SW end, there are possible traces of stone-facing and it appears to be topped with remnants of rough stone walling, with stone tumble on the slope. The fosse (Wth 3.5m; ext. D 1.4m) has a well defined, almost vertical face on its external face. A semicircular area (c. 6m E−W; 2.2.5m N−S) cut into the external face of the fosse on the N side is said locally to have been the site of a well –now silted up. There are short remnants of a wall at the outer edge of the fosse at NE and NW. At W-NW, the fosse is expanded to a broader space (Wth 10m), the result of quarrying disturbance in the modern era. The base of the fosse on the E half is wet and silty, with standing water in the winter. According to local information, the fosse was periodically ‘cleaned out’ in the past. The perimeter is ringed by blackthorn, hawthorn, holly and brambles, with blackthorn encroaching on the interior. There are badger sets in the scarp. The rath appears to survive much as it was when Knox (1911, 239-40) recorded in the early 1900’s as ‘a common earthen fort with a ditch and small rampart around the garth, somewhat ruined on one side by digging for gravel.’ Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 May 2023 - MA119-076: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA119-076----. In pasture, located on gently elevation ground. This rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled, but its outline is still evident at ground level. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (36m N−S; c. 40m E−W) defined by a bank with an external fosse. The levelled bank can be traced SE−NE as a low undulation. It has a broad, low external slope (Wth slope c. 4m; ext. H c. 0.4m), slumping seamlessly into the fosse, which is evident as a broad, shallow depression (W 4-5m) marked by differential grass growth. On the E arc, the bank is barely discernible and the fosse is not evident at ground level –it is likely that the entrance was located on this side. A medieval church (MA111-048001-) and graveyard (MA111-048002-) are located 250m to NW. An early 19th-century glebe house stands 80m to NE. Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère Attached image: MA119-076----_01.JPG viewed from west Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 March 2021 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brittas. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brittas, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_449, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_449.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brittas.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brittas.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brittas.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bushfield: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bushfield.md - Cregduff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cregduff-151211.md - Creggawatta: https://everytownland.com/mayo/creggawatta.md - Kilcommon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilcommon.md - Lugatallin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lugatallin.md - Shantallow: https://everytownland.com/mayo/shantallow.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brittas - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/brittas