Briska More

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Briska More, from 403 m² to 269,846 m² (26.98 ha, 66.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Briska More 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Conditional

  a change of house type under previously permitted governing Planning Permission Reference Number 21413 and associated extension of duration under 257032, alteration to site boundaries to increase the permitted site area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660620

• 17 Apr 2026Refused

  construction of a new dwelling house, private garage, site entrance, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660433

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 21/413: the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257032

• 27 Sept 2025Conditional

  construction of an extension to link dwelling to garage, dormer to garage roof, window to rear gable and change of use of garage to living accommodation in order to provide an independent living unit along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560981

• 16 Feb 2023Conditional

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

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2360072

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21413

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21122

• 2 Nov 2020N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201123

• 18 Sept 2017Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17856

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  retention of front boundary wall as constructed

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17288

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 Briska More.

Recorded monuments

• LI012-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In elevated pasture on slight E facing slope, 133m S of the townland boundary with Elmpark Demesne and 190m E of the townland boundary with Briska Beg. Modern farmyard immediately to SW. Present remains consist of a circular shaped area (diam. 35m N-S, 34m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank from NNE to SSW (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m; base Wth 4.70m) with well preserved stone revetting, bank incorporated into a field boundary from SSW-NNE. The interior is undulating with a series of earth and stone banks traversing the centre of the site. The interior is divided by a bank (L 28m ENE-WSW; H 0.35m; base Wth 1.8m), which joins second bank at E end (L 28m); slightly curved bank in the NW (L 9m; H 0.4m; base Wth 2.3m). Internal banks running across interior of monument are clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 06/02/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• LI012-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In elevated rocky pasture on slight NE-facing slope, 118m E of the townland boundary with Briska Beg. No surface remains visible of monument which according to landowner was levelled around the year 2000 (SMR File). The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. int. dims. 39m N-S X 37m E-W; max. ext. diam. 55m N-S) enclosed by a bank (Wth 8m). Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 02/07/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 02/07/2018 and 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Briska More, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_879 (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.

No address of the register names Briska More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Briska More · Broisceach Mhór

Area

1,074,220 m² (107.42 ha, 265.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Clarina, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,993 people lived in 697 households in the Clarina electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Briska Beg, Cloghatacka, Cragbeg, Elmpark Demesne, Faha Demesne, Glascurram, Kilcolman

Placenames

Briska More 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.