Brosna

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brosna, from 61 m² to 190,966 m² (19.1 ha, 47.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Brosna 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.

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22513

• 24 Oct 2018Conditional

  A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SITE ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCAITED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18466

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 Brosna.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brosna.

Architectural heritage

• Brosna House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay tow-storey house, built c.1830, with return and extensions to rear. Fronting onto the road. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows. Wyatt window to entrance bay. Segmental-headed door opening recessed within splayed surround with double timber panelled doors flanked by engaged fluted columns and sidelights and surmounted by fanlight. Front site bounded by cast-iron railings on plinth wall. Outbuildings to east and south-east with roughcast rendered walls and pitched slate roofs.

• John's Ville, steward's house, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former agent's house to Gloster House, built c.1860, with gabled elevations and extensions to rear. Set in its own grounds. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and open eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening within timber and glazed entrance porch, with timber panelled door and overlight. Outbuildings to rear site with rendered walls and pitched roofs. Decorative cast-iron double gates to road.

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 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 Brosna.

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

Name

Brosna · An Bhrosnach

Area

1,007,168 m² (100.72 ha, 248.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurryely, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Shinrone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shinrone electoral division: 1,041 people in 391 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilleen, Ballylonnan, Derrymacedmond, Glasderry More, Magherareagh

Placenames

Brosna 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.