Bragan
Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Bragán
- Area
- 951.3 ha
- 2,351 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 35,955 m² (3.6 ha, 8.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bragan, from 165 m² to 598,780 m² (59.88 ha, 147.96 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bragan 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
30 Nov 2021N/a
permission to retain domestic garage and exit on to public road by existing entrance. Previous planning 06/1064.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21660
3 Jun 2021Conditional
permission for development to consist of; demolish existing dwelling & out-buildings, erect replacement house/holiday home for tourism and short-term letting purposes as a change of use from 1.5 storey dwelling to house/holiday home from the previously approved application no. 20/351, elevational & floor plan changes to dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21329
2 Sept 2020Conditional
permission to demolish a house and out buildings and erect a storey and a half dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20351
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 Protection Area: Slieve Beagh SPA 004167
- Natural Heritage Area: Eshbrack Bog NHA 001603
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bragan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bragan.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bragan.
- 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 Bragan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Bragan · Bragán
- Area
- 9,513,323 m² (951.33 ha, 2,350.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Errigal Trough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Bragan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bragan electoral division: 318 people in 104 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barratitoppy Upper, Corryarbeg, Crossnacaldoo, Drumfurrer, Eshcloghfin, Glen Beg, Knockballyroney, Tonyclea
- Placenames
- Bragan 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.