Brackly

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackly, from 1,144 m² to 69,586 m² (6.96 ha, 17.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Brackly 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Brackly 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 the townland of Brackly.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. This is a circular to subrectangular overgrown area (diam. 41m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.2m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.5m at E to 1.2m at W), with an outer stone facing S-WSW which morphs into a stone wall on top of the bank WSW-NE. There is no visible fosse but the original entrance (Wth of base 1.6m) is likely to be the one at NE. Rath (MO028-024----) is across the valley c. 120m to the NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

• MO028-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on what is probably a knoll of rock outcrop towards the N end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge overlooking Lough Nagarnaman, the S shore of which is c. 270m to the N. This is an oval overgrown area (dims 38m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1m S-W to 3m generally) which is largely the natural slope, with slight traces of a bank on the perimeter at NE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance but the monument is probably a rath, and rath (MO028-029----) is c. 150m along the ridge to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

• MO028-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the N end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge overlooking Lough Nagarnaman, the S shore of which is c. 350m to the N. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) that slopes down gently to the SE (H 1.4m), which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2-5.6m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 1.2m at N to 2.4m at S) with some bushes, and an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 3.8m; D 0.2m) that are best preserved W-N across the ridge. The entrance (Wth of base 3m) is at S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Brackly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Brackly · An Bhreaclaigh

Area

697,562 m² (69.76 ha, 172.37 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bocks electoral division: 779 people in 246 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Cullentraghduff, Drumberagh, Drumlurg, Dunaree, Dunaree Latin

Placenames

Brackly 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.