Bracklin Big

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracklin Big, from 179 m² to 1,145,968 m² (114.6 ha, 283.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Bracklin Big 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.

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  a two-storey house, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660104

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2267

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, PROPOSED ENTRANCE OFF THE PUBLIC ROAD, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PACKAGED SECONDARY UNIT AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21801

• 20 Apr 2018Refused

  A TWO STOREY HOUSE, GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18177

• 6 Oct 2017Refused

  TWO STOREY HOUSE, GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17386

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Murphy's Bridge Esker 001775
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF009-019001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained low-lying land on low natural mound with nearby church (OF009-019002-) to SE. All that remains are two poorly preserved low walls, the E wall running N-S and the S wall running E-W. The structure was probably a Tower house built with uncoursed limestone rubble. The E wall is 8.5m long with an int. H of 2m. The S wall is 4m in length. The structure itself seems to lie on the E side of the mound, which is defined by a number of irregular earthworks. The bawn area seems to be located to the W of the Tower house. Depicted as a small square shaped building on the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF009-019002 Church
  Description

  All that remains of this church is an overgrown rock outcrop with no definite evidence of wall footings or worked\cut stone. Described in 1942 as 'on a slight rise above marshy flats by river near castle (OF009-019001-). There are old thorns on the site, and banks mark wall foundations. On W seems a small rect. room c. 4 yds. square and perhaps extension of wall to E. Unenclosed' (ITA Survey 1942). 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

• OF009-019003 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on lowlying poorly drained soils. The earthworks which are present in Bracklin Big are associated with the tower house, known as Bracklin Castle (OF009-019001-) and the destroyed church (OF009-019002-). They are found to the west, south and east of the castle and to the north of the church site. The earthworks run in a haphazard fashion though it is possible to make out the shape of the bawn to the west side of the castle (OF009-019001-). A distinctive earthwork, situated on the east side of the castle runs in a NE-SE direction could be a possible roadway. The earthworks of the castle site were described in 1977 as, 'low mounds of stones to the west of the castle (OF009-019001-). the castle is set in the eastern end of an enclosure of approx. rect.[angular] shape. The perimeter of this enclosure & the western end of the enclosure could be the result of more recent modification. On the north side the perimeter is bounded by a low scarp, on the NW side & west sides this becomes a low bank. This bank continues rather irregularly along the south & east sides. There is a shallow fosse outside on east, south & west. the surrounding are is rather poorly drained pasture land' (SMR file 1977). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2011

• OF009-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Bulldozed for gravel about 20 years ago. Described by Davies (1942) as poorly preserved circular area (diam 59yds E-W) enclosed by bank and external fosse (Wth 3ft) all of which has been destroyed from N to S by quarrying. Probable ringfort. 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 Bracklin Big.

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 Bracklin Big.

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

Name

Bracklin Big · Breaclainn Mhór

Area

4,336,959 m² (433.7 ha, 1,071.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycommon, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Ballycommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycommon electoral division: 659 people in 208 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycosney, Ballynamona, Ballynasrah or Tinnycross, Bracklin Little, Cartron East, Derrygolan (Co. Westmeath), Fairfield, Kilmurry, Rosnagowloge or Tirinchinan, Wood of O

Placenames

Bracklin Big 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.