Brackagh

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackagh, from 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 132,812 m² (13.28 ha, 32.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Brackagh 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660400

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660392

• 17 Jul 2026N/a

  a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660384

• 30 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) construction of a single storey rear extension consisting of 44Sqm together with connecting to all existing site services and (2) for permission to demolish existing rear extension consisting of 4.8Sqm and (c) for retention permission for the construction of the single storey habitable side extension consisting of 25.8 Sqm together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560399

• 20 Aug 2025N/a

  (1) to construct a single storey rear extension consisting of 44Sqm together with connecting to all existing site services and (2) for permission to demolish existing rear extension consisting of 4.8Sqm and (c) for retention permission for the construction of the single storey habitable side extension consisting of 25.8 Sqm together with to all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560377

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 Brackagh.

Recorded monuments

• OF002-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the E facing slope of a ridge running N-S with limited views. Partially levelled ringfort consisting of a circular area (diam 37.7m N-S) enclosed by a barely visible bank which can be seen from NE through E to S. The interior of the site slopes from W to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Brackagh.

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 Brackagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Brackagh · An Bhreacach

Area

645,921 m² (64.59 ha, 159.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumreragh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcoursey

Electoral division

Kilcumreragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcumreragh electoral division: 553 people in 187 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron Glebe, Curraghanana, Laragh (Co. Westmeath), Newtown

Placenames

Brackagh 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.