Brackagh

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackagh, from 48 m² to 335,460 m² (33.55 ha, 82.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660277

• 7 May 2026N/a

  the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660253

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  1. Removal of existing container unit number 1 from North of the site and replace by 2 No. units – new innovation suite and store prefabricated building of 68m2 & welfare unit of 11m2 2. Relocation of existing 3No. container units (2,3 & 4) further to the southwest of the site and erect 2 new units - a new bio refinery prefabricated building of 36m2 and new living laboratory prefabricated building of 36m2 buildings in its place. 3. Additionally, construction of four 6m high poles for internet access points, new entrance gates, fencing and signage and new secure compound with fence and gates together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560458

• 17 Sept 2025N/a

  The development will consist of Planning Permission for removal of existing container unit number 1, Relocation of existing container units 2, 3 and 4, Construction of new bio refinery pre-fabricated building, New innovation suite and store pre-fabricated building , New living laboratory pre-fabricated building, New Welfare Unit, Four 6m poles for internet access points, New entrance gates, fencing and signage and New secure compound with fence and gates together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560427

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  EXISTING FREESTANDING STORAGE CONTAINERS. PERMISSION FOR (1) CONTINUANCE OF EXISTING AQUACULTURE FARM INCORPORATING FOUR FISH PONDS, AQUAPONICS POND, ALL CONNECTED USING INTERLINKING OPEN CHANNELS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, AS PERMITTED UNDER PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE 16/66. (2) CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATED ANTI PREDATOR NETTING AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND INCIDENTAL WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21237

• 29 Mar 2021N/a

  (1) CONTINUANCE OF EXISTING AQUACULTURE FARM INCORPORATING FOUR FISH PONDS, AQUAPONICS POND, ALL CONNECTED USING INTERLINKING OPEN CHANNELS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, AS PERMITTED UNDER PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE 16/66. (2) PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATED ANTI PREDATOR NETTING AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES. (3) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING FREESTANDING STORAGE CONTAINERS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21164

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brackagh.

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

At the centre of the townland of Brackagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackagh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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

2,176,884 m² (217.69 ha, 537.92 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballaghassaan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghassaan, Clonarrow or Riverlyons, Derrycricket, Drumcaw or Mountlucas, Scrub or Pigeonpark

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.