Brackloon

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon, from 492 m² to 147,491 m² (14.75 ha, 36.45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Brackloon 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.

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20132

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 Brackloon.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-059 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough wet pasture, in SE corner of a field. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork, not indicated on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a D-shaped area (15.5m NNW-SSE) with straight side at SE (L 23m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp and fosse truncated at SSE by a field boundary running ENE-WSW. The scarp (H 0.7m; Wth 1.3m) is visible from WSW-N-ENE. The remains of a fosse (overall Wth 5m; basal Wth 1.7m; D 0.2m) are visible from W-NNW. The interior is grass covered and undulating. A subtriangular-shaped area adjoins the scarp at NW and is defined by linear bank (L 12m; Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) running WNW-ESE, to S and with a short return (L 8m) running NNE-SSW, to E. Monument visible as a semicircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Brackloon, about 1 in 5 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

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

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 Brackloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Brackloon · An Bhreac-chluain

Area

342,338 m² (34.23 ha, 84.59 acres)

Civil parish

Tuoghcluggin, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlecluggin, Cluggin, Garravin, Garryfrask, Milltown

Placenames

Brackloon 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.