Brandra

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brandra, from 324 m² to 131,626 m² (13.16 ha, 32.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Brandra 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.

• 28 Nov 2023Conditional

  alter roof design from that granted planning ref no. 21/914 and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 23282

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  erect a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360413

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  retain concrete floor slab and apron to proposed extension to existing joinery shed and full planning permission to renovate and extend same joinery shed to include altering portion of roof and installing office, canteen and toilet, to include an extension to side, installing air filtration system, connecting to existing services, car parking and all associated and necessary site works using existing entrance

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22416

• 6 May 2022N/a

  renovate and extend existing joinery shed to include altering portion of roof and installing office, canteen and toilet, also constructing an extension to side, installing air filteration system, connecting to existing services, car parking and all associated and necessary site works using existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22277

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  construct a cubicle house with silage wall, as part of an extension to existing cubicle house, and the construction of an uncovered slatted tank and feed area, and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2252

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, car port, domestic garage, septic tank , percolation area , new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 21914

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  revise site boundaries and all associated works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21712

• 15 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a loose house with silage wall, uncovered slatted tank and feed area, all as an extension to existing loose house, uncovered slatted tank and feed area and all associated works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1878

• 13 Feb 2018N/a

  construct a loose house with silage wall, uncovered slatted tank and feed area, all as an extension to existing loose house, uncovered slatted tank and feed area and all associated works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1871

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 Brandra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brandra.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Brandra, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Brandra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Brandra · Branra

Area

767,343 m² (76.73 ha, 189.61 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyleix, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Abbeyleix, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,979 people lived in 1,145 households in the Abbeyleix electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonkeen, Curraghacronacon, Fermoyle, Granafallow, Watercastle

Placenames

Brandra 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.