Brierfield South

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield South, from 4 m² to 163,552 m² (16.36 ha, 40.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brierfield South 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661548

• 15 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660032

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  of dwelling house and site entrance at a revised location to that granted in planning permission 99/1672 and for retention of domestic garage, turf/storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561407

• 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

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the following: As built, alterations to the Existing Dwelling to the front of the dwelling, existing shed to the rear of the dwelling, material change to the finish of the dwelling, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 37 sqm(G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561017

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  of domestic garage, stables and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 46.90 sqm(G), 34.74 sqm(stables)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560948

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2519

• 15 Mar 2024N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 214.44 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2460287

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area along with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23331

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional

  of the house, retention of garage and retention of turf shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House: 248sqm, Garage: 52sqm, Turf-Shed: 48sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22947

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a agricultural/domestic garage building and alterations to wastewater treatment system serving existing dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260046

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  to demolish derelict house, construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; House 204 sqm & Garage 66 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211217

• 17 Dec 2020Unconditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works (Gross floor space house 200sqm; garage 60sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 201956

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  of development and permission for development. The development will consist of (i) retention of existing shed with slatted tank (gross floor area 129 sq.m.), (ii) construction of extension to existing slatted shed to incorporate loose sheep house, calving pens, creep area, crush race and passage way (gross floor area of new works 350 sq.m.) and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 350 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 129 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191696

• 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

• 19 Nov 2018Conditional

  to; 1. Re-surface and extend existing silage slab. 2. Install effluent tank and place concrete floor in existing sheep handling facilities. 3. Construct a slatted shed and manure pit to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: slatted shed - 210.50 sqm, Manure pit - 37.21 sqm, extension to silage slab - 168 sqm, Concrete apron - 316sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181643

• 9 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 205sqm, Garage 59sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171461

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area/soak pit all on revised site boundaries (previous reference no. 52085) and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 71sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17676

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 South.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brierfield South.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Brierfield South · An Driseachán Theas

Area

2,225,725 m² (222.57 ha, 549.99 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Moyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyne electoral division: 703 people in 239 households; 93% of households own 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 (Stevens), Cooloorta, Danganbeg, Firpark, Lecarrow, Slievegorm, Windfield Demesne, Windfield Lower

Placenames

Brierfield South 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.