Brittas

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 62 m² to 167,157 m² (16.72 ha, 41.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Brittas 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 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission: Permission for (1) proposed surface water soakaway. (2) Retention of alterations and extension to existing dwelling following fire damage is 2002 comprising of new raised roof to accommodate living accommodation at first floor level and existing extensions to front and side of dwelling. (3) Retention of existing detached two storey domestic outbuilding comprising of gym, home office, storage area/toilet facilities at ground floor level and games room at first floor level, all incidental to the enjoyment of existing dwelling together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2697

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  Retention permission for an extension to part of ground floor and first floor to front (north) of existing dwelling, first floor balcony to front elevation (north) and retention of existing brick finish to north, south, east and west elevations of existing two storey dwelling

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2652

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto existing lane and use of existing shared vehicular entrance onto public road and associated site development works and planning permission also sought for a new treatment system and percolation area to adjacent dwelling house and all associated site works *Significant Further Information received on 05/09/2026*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660130

• 5 Dec 2025Refused

  Dwelling house with integarted garage , waste water treatment system and percolation area , on site soakaway , access to site from public road via existing agricultural gateway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560787

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission is sought for alterations to the commercial building permitted under Ref: 04/536 including relocation of the building on site. Retention permission is sought for office & store and all ancillary site works. Permission to remove Condition No. 5 of Ref: 04/536 to facilitate the use of the building for storage purposes is also sought.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560420

• 5 Jun 2025N/a

  Retention Permission is sought for alterations to the commercial building permitted under Ref: 04/536 including relocation of the building on site. Permission to remove Condition No. 5 of Ref: 04/536 to facilitate the use of the building for storage purposes is also sought.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560340

• 10 Oct 2024Conditional

  Permission Consequent on the Grant of Outline Permission Ref. No. 21/6 for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460609

• 9 Apr 2024Refused

  Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry Layer House and 1 No. Manure/General Purpose store, together with all ancillary structures, (to include 3 No. meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank), and all associated site works (to include upgraded internal farm laneway, site drainage and storm water attenuation) associated with the proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460189

• 8 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission to construct 1 No. poultry layer house and 1 No. manure/general purpose store, together with all ancillary structures, (to include 3 No. meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank), and all associated site works (to include upgraded internal farm laneway, site drainage and storm water attenuation) associated with the proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460183

• 17 Aug 2023Refused

  Crayvall Egg Production Ltd. intend to apply for planning permission to construct 1 No. Poultry Layer House and 1 No. Manure/General Purpose store, together with all ancillary structures, (to include 3 No. meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank), and all associated site works (to include upgraded internal farm laneway,) associated with the proposed development, at Carrickbaggott, Grangebellew, Co. Louth. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will be submitted with this planning application.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360288

• 4 Jan 2021Conditional

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 216

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no. free range poultry house and 2 no. manure / general purpose stores, together with all ancillary structures, (to include 4 no. meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank), and all associated site works (to include new site entrance and internal laneway, and the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) associated with the proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R) will be submitted with this planning application.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19231

• 19 Jan 2017Conditional

  Permission for alterations to proposed development from that as granted under Ref: 16168 including revision of house plans with reduction in overall floor area and exclusion of single storey outbuilding.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1722

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 Brittas.

Recorded monuments

• LH021-016001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 33m E-W, 31.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 10.5m, H 1.7m internally, 4m externally) with traces of external U-shaped fosse (Wth 10m, D 1.5m). Fosse replaced by modern lane from SSW-W. The degraded bank has many gaps, but the gap to NNE is probably the original entrance (Wth 3.7m). Tradition of souterrain (LH021-016002-) at site.

• LH021-016002 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in ringfort (LH021-016001-). (CLAJ 1908, 38)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brittas.

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 20 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 Brittas.

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 Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Brittas · An Briotás

Area

1,353,333 m² (135.33 ha, 334.42 acres)

Civil parish

Carrickbaggot, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baggotstown, Carrickbaggot, Drumshallon, Kellystown, Rokeby, Swinestown

Placenames

Brittas 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.