# Brackagh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcumreragh, barony of Kilcoursey, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Bhreacach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 645,921 m² (64.59 ha, 159.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,768 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcumreragh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilcumreragh.md - Barony: Kilcoursey - Electoral division: Kilcumreragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42123 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180265 - Centre: latitude 53.406958, longitude -7.617183 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 270742: 132,812 m² (13.28 ha, 32.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270742.md - Parcel 268950: 93,722 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268950.md - Parcel 273656: 84,697 m² (8.47 ha, 20.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273656.md - Parcel 279295: 77,071 m² (7.71 ha, 19.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279295.md - Parcel 307711: 53,769 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307711.md - Parcel 298504: 46,756 m² (4.68 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298504.md - Parcel 289173: 35,104 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289173.md - Parcel 307523: 15,122 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307523.md - Parcel 304903: 14,536 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304903.md - Parcel 282525: 13,571 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282525.md - Parcel 291431: 13,085 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291431.md - Parcel 299769: 12,789 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299769.md - Parcel 305615: 12,747 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305615.md - Parcel 304178: 11,207 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304178.md - Parcel 299385: 8,414 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299385.md - Parcel 291617: 6,983 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291617.md - Parcel 312271: 6,165 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312271.md - Parcel 303836: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303836.md - Parcel 272041: 3,196 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272041.md - Parcel 301471: 3,155 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301471.md - Parcel 299932: 2,853 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299932.md - Parcel 4952991: 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952991.md - Parcel 309599: 2,140 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309599.md - Parcel 2498732: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498732.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660400: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660400/0 - 23 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660392: N/a. Permission. to construct a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660392/0 - 17 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660384: N/a. Permission. a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660384/0 - 30 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2560399: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560399/0 - 20 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2560377: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560377/0 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 Brackagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF002-008: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-008----. 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 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 Brackagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/offaly/brackagh-180265.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brackagh-180265.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brackagh-180265.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brackagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cartron Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cartron-glebe.md - Curraghanana: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghanana.md - Laragh (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/laragh-230887.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180993.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/offaly/brackagh-180265 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/brackagh-180265