Briscarnagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briscarnagh, from 823 m² to 217,978 m² (21.8 ha, 53.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Briscarnagh 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.

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  permission to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) etc.) and site works associated with the above development on an existing poultry farm at Tullynample, Drum, Co. Monaghan This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013 An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660234

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  The construction of 2 new poultry units together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. The application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity required a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18572

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 Briscarnagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of and at the centre of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 27m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank that is best preserved (at W: Wth of base 4.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.65m) SSE-W and slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE. There is no visible fosse but the probably entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) is at ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

• MO017-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SW tip of a NE-SW spur. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 23m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H c. 0.7m; ext. H 2-2.7m) and hedge with trees and a complete outer fosse (at E: Wth of base 3.5m; ext. D 0.6m) that is frequently water-logged. The original entrance (Wth of base 2.7m) and causeway (Wth of top 4.9m; H c. 1m) are at S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Briscarnagh.

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 Briscarnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Briscarnagh · An Bhrioscarnach

Area

1,029,021 m² (102.9 ha, 254.28 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killynenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killynenagh electoral division: 219 people in 71 households; 84% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnroe, Cavany, Corrinary, Drumgrone, Drumurcher, Lisarearke, Lurganboy, Tullynample

Placenames

Briscarnagh 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.