Brittas

145 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 22 m² to 104,344 m² (10.43 ha, 25.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 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.

• 8 Oct 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660543

• 25 Oct 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460409

• 25 Oct 2023Refused

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360364

• 1 Nov 2021N/a

  construction of a three-bedroom, storey and a half type dwelling (180 sqm) with tertiary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21583

• 29 Jun 2021Conditional

  Dwelling, sewage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21356

• 19 Feb 2021N/a

  Proposed dwelling, sewage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2174

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  A three-bedroom, two-storey dwelling (170sqm) with package wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2175

• 29 Jan 2021N/a

  Construction of a three-bedroom storey-and-a-half type dwelling (170sqm) with package wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2141

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new private dwelling and detached garage, a wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207141

• 16 Apr 2020Conditional

  A dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207059

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  The application will include the retention of a rear extension comprising of an extended living area, utility room, WC and en-suite.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187123

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  Planning Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and polishing filter and associated site works from that granted under planning reference 17/7087

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187018

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  Construction of a 4 bedroom bungalow dwelling house, garage & septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177108

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  Proposed dwelling, sewage treatment system with polishing filter, domestic garage and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177087

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

• WM022-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the WNW side of a low rise, in pasture with good views of the surrounding undulating landscape. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Bivallate ringfort described in 1971 and 1978 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 35.5m E-W; 34.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is low and almost reduced to a scarp. A modern stone wall has been built along the base of this bank from W-N-E-SE and outhouses have been built partially into the base of the bank from SE-S-W. The remains of a shallow intervening fosse are visible from SW-W-N. Traces of a low outer bank are visible from S-W-N. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is generally even with slight stony outcrops. A modern house and landscaped garden now occupy the centre of this enclosure which is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 July 2019

• WM023-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a prominent hillock, in undulating pasture with wide views to E, S and SW. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 27.8m NNE-SSW; 25.5m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The slight earth and stone bank has been replaced by part of a modern stone wall from WSW-W-NW. Traces of an external fosse are visible from S-WSW and at NNW. A gap (Wth at top 4m; basal Wth 1.5m) at ENE may represent the entrance. The interior has a gentle W-facing slope with faint traces of cultivation ridges running NE-SW. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

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

At the centre of the townland of Brittas, 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 Brittas.

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

Name

Brittas

Area

1,104,331 m² (110.43 ha, 272.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Auburn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

785 people lived in 277 households in the Auburn electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corr, Kilkenny Lanesborough, Lisnascreen, Pearsonsbrook, Rath, Waterstown

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.