Brierfield (Stevens)

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield (Stevens), from 135 m² to 63,527 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Brierfield (Stevens) 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct slatted house with calf creeps and ancillary concrete, manure pit and silage slab and apron and associated siteworks

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661428

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660334

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660196

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and private garage/store with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 198.25 sqm (H) & 53.94 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 252

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct (1) slatted house with calf creeps, manure pit and ancillary concrete (2) hay and machinery storage shed and (3) silage slab and apron and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 950.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461653

• 11 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461029

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 215 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460505

• 26 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 190.52 sqm (house) & 37.56 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460200

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension (c. 13 sqm) to the side of existing dwelling house and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 13 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212065

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 321.61 sqm (House = 261.63 sqm, Garage - 59.98 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191088

• 20 Feb 2018Unconditional

  for demolition of 2 storey element of existing dwelling, to be replaced with single storey element, its overall height to match existing single storey element, existing lean-to roof replaced with hipped roof; minor amendments to elevational treatments, new wastewater treatment system and associated site works (gross floor space demolition 82sqm; proposed 49sqm). Previous Planning Ref. No. 12/1475.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18188

• 19 Feb 2018N/a

  for demolition of 2 storey element of existing dwelling, to be replaced with single storey element, its overall height to match existing single storey element, existing lean-to roof replaced with hipped roof; minor amendments to elevational treatments, new wastewater treatment system and associated site works (gross floor space demolition 82sqm; proposed 49sqm). Previous Planning Ref. 12/1475.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18185

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 Brierfield (Stevens).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brierfield (Stevens).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brierfield (Stevens).

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 Brierfield (Stevens), 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brierfield (Stevens).

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 Brierfield (Stevens) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Brierfield (Stevens) · An Driseachán (Stevens)

Area

825,358 m² (82.54 ha, 203.95 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Moyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

703 people lived in 239 households in the Moyne electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brierfield (Blake), Brierfield (Burke), Brierfield North, Brierfield South

Placenames

Brierfield (Stevens) 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.