Brittas
Brittas is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Briotás.
Parcel 1265155
- Area
- 11,224 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 HA-DM (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Brittas
Planning applications on this parcel
3 Mar 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention of (i) enclosure of original front porch, (ii) porch and front door to side, (iii) conservatory to front, (iv) detached shed to front, (v) detached shed to side/rear, (vi) feature 2.7m high wall to front and (vii) increased curtilage including repositioned vehicular access off private lane.
Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD17B/0072
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3052 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 99.8 ha
- 247 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 113,367 m² (11.34 ha, 28.01 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA-DM
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 11,224 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres) to 400,010 m² (40 ha, 98.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Mar 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention of (i) enclosure of original front porch, (ii) porch and front door to side, (iii) conservatory to front, (iv) detached shed to front, (v) detached shed to side/rear, (vi) feature 2.7m high wall to front and (vii) increased curtilage including repositioned vehicular access off private lane.
Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD17B/0072
25 Feb 2000Grant permission
Modifications to approved golf course, Reg. Ref. S99A/0149, on 11 hectares of land being the smaller part of an 18 hole golf course, re-alignment of fairways 13, 14 and 15, the relocation of the tee boxes for hole numbers 13 and 15, and the removal of the proposed twelfth green and part of the proposed lake between fairways 12 and 13.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S00A/0117
10 Mar 1999Grant permission
To develop 11 hectares of golf course, being the smaller part of a proposed 18 hole golf course (including tees, fairways, greens, bunkers, water and land features, tree planting, landscaping and ancillary works) and for 160 metres of an access road to service the course and the proposed club house, off street parking and other facilities to be built in Co. Wicklow (and for which a separate application will be made).
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S99A/0149
23 Dec 1996Refuse outline permission
Dormer bungalow and septic tank.
Outline permission · South Dublin County Council, S96A/0743
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brittas.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Brittas, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3010 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Brittas · An Briotás
- Area
- 998,169 m² (99.82 ha, 246.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,093 people lived in 367 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghfarrell (Co. Dublin), Brittas Big (Co. Dublin), Brittas Little (Co. Dublin), Butter Mountain, Gortlum (Co. Dublin), Knockbane, Lisheens
- 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.