Brownstown
Brownstown is a townland in the civil parish of Cullenwaine, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhrúnaigh.
Parcel 2579464
- Area
- 2,645 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 273 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Brownstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 183 ha
- 452 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 9,524 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown, from 29 m² to 141,667 m² (14.17 ha, 35.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brownstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Sept 2022Conditional
RETENTION OF GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22487
20 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21228
30 Apr 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING LEAN TO SHED AND REPLACE WITH NEW SLATTED UNIT
Permission · Offaly County Council, 19196
15 Aug 2018Conditional
(1) SHED AS CONSTRUCTED (2) ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED AND FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO UPGRADE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18353
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brownstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brownstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brownstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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 low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brownstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Brownstown · Baile an Bhrúnaigh
- Area
- 1,830,390 m² (183.04 ha, 452.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cullenwaine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Electoral division
- Cullenwaine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghveny (Co. Tipperary), Ballyknockane (Co. Tipperary), Emmel, Glenahilty (Co. Tipperary), Kylenaheskeragh (Co. Tipperary), Rath, Rathenny, Woodville (Co. Tipperary)
- Placenames
- Brownstown 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.