Briencan

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briencan, from 39 m² to 288,562 m² (28.86 ha, 71.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Briencan 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.

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660096

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660086

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing entrance driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: An amendment to the red line boundary to accommodate the installation of the proposed bubble mirror, details of the proposed bubble mirror, permissions granted by the owner of the land for the installation and maintenance of the proposed bubble mirror, removal of the container in the rear garden, amendments to the site layout showing sufficient manoeuvring space for a vehicle to turn around within the site, showing a wider recessed entrance positioned further away from the bend in the road, showing that the finishes to the bell mouth shaped entrance are to be hydropave, showing the location of the post and rail fencing, showing the fence to be located 2.4m from the edge of the road and with native species hedging to be planted behind the fencing

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25126

• 1 Oct 2024N/a

  for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24312

• 19 Sept 2024N/a

  for the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, minor internal and external elevational alterations, replacement of all windows and external doors, alterations to the existing entrance driveway and entrance piers, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and installation of an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter all to the existing semi-detached single storey dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24299

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 Briencan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Briencan.

Architectural heritage

• Wellfield, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house, c.1870, retaining early fenestration with round-headed door opening to centre approached by flight of steps and pair of two-bay two-storey returns to rear to north-east. Extended, c.1920, comprising three-bay two-storey flat-roofed bowed projection to side elevation to south-east and single-bay two-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-east. Gable-ended roof with slate (hipped to original returns). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Flat-roof to bowed projection (behind balustrade) and to additional return. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls (roughcast to bowed projection). Unpainted. Rendered quoins to corners. Moulded stringcourse to eaves. Square-headed window openings (round-headed to ground floor to bowed projection). Stone sills (rendered sill course to first floor). Rendered architraves to front (south-west) elevation. 6/6 timber sash windows. 1/1 timber sash windows to rear elevation. Multi-pane fixed-pane windows to ground floor to bowed projection with fanlights. Timber casement windows to first floor. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of stone steps. Cut-granite panelled pilaster doorcase. Timber panelled door. Spoked fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front.Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1870, to north-west. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed door openings. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1870, to west with three-bay two-storey gabled breakfront. Extensively renovated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof (gabled to breakfront). Replacement artificial slate, c.1990. Concrete ridge tiles. Vent to apex to centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window opening to centre first floor to breakfront). Stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door openings. Replacement timber doors, c.1990.Gateway, c.1870, to south comprising four granite ashlar piers with cast-iron gates and pedestrian gates.

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 Briencan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Briencan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Briencan

Area

880,455 m² (88.05 ha, 217.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore Eustace, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore Eustace East, Ballymore Eustace West, Barretstown, Brumlin, Coghlanstown East, Donode Little, Greenhall Lower, Lugadowden, Tinnycross

Placenames

Briencan 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.