Brierfield (Burke)

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield (Burke), from 332 m² to 146,912 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 (Burke) 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new building to be used as a sensory room ancillary to the existing school and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561276

• 5 Aug 2025N/a

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/storage to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25201

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct a home office to the rear of the dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22.11 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461769

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 207.39 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24125

• 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

• 1 Jul 2022Refused

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180.42 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage/fuel shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22836

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.90 sqm (dwelling house) & 60 sqm (garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260049

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174.63 sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212098

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house (c. 198 sqm), domestic garage (c. 60 sqm), waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm (House: 198 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21597

• 20 Aug 2020Conditional

  of a dwelling house, domestic garage, fuel store and all other ancillary works on a site with revised site boundaries. Previous planning reference 97/1134 refers. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 190.1 sqm (House)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201159

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 232 sqm, Garage 65 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20778

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 224 sqm, Garage 50.76 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20779

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House = 168.12 sqm, Garage/shed = 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20181

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private Garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House = 182.40 sqm, Garage/store = 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20182

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  for a) the erection of a prefabricated temporary structure with connections to existing services to house a pre-school to rear yard of existing school building, b) retention of prefabricated temporary structure housing an ASD classroom and temporary storage shed to front and side of existing school building, c) retention of converted play shelter now housing classroom facilities to side of main school building, d) retention of alterations to previously approved parking & set down area, all on an enlarged site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 47sqm; Gross floor space of work to be retained: 92.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181889

• 17 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment unit, percolation area, private garage / fuel shed and all associated works (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 156sqm, Garage 53.94sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1722

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 (Burke).

Recorded monuments

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

Architectural heritage

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

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 (Burke), 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 Brierfield (Burke).

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

Name

Brierfield (Burke) · An Driseachán (Burke)

Area

1,188,958 m² (118.9 ha, 293.8 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 (Stevens), Brierfield North, Brierfield South, Lecarrow

Placenames

Brierfield (Burke) 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.