Bruis

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bruis, from 24 m² to 534,642 m² (53.46 ha, 132.11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bruis 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.

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  storage area, utility room, front porch, domestic garage as constructed, location of entrance to site, front boundary wall, change to site boundaries, location of existing septic tank . Permission for de-commission of existing septic tank and the installation of a waste water treatment system and percolation

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560927

• 5 Sept 2025N/a

  shed/storage area, separate domestic garage, utility room, front porch, change to site boundaries, location of septic tank and percolation area and location of entrance and front boundary wall and PERMISSION to upgrade existing septic tank to waste water treatment system

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560872

• 30 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of an extension to existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211290

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 Bruis.

Recorded monuments

• TS066-111 Castle - motte
  Description

  According to the Annals of Innisfallen Bruis moat was constructed in 1193 AD when the castle was built by the foreigners with the consent of Ua Briain and to injure Desmummu therefrom (Mac Airt 1951 318, 319). In grassland at N end of N-S ridge atop high ground with commanding views in all directions, church (TS066-113001-) and graveyard (TS066-113002-) 160m to S. Impressive large flat-topped conical-shaped mound (H approx. 10m from berm and 20m from external ground; top diam. 21m N-S; 22m E-W; base diam. approx. 40m N-S) with wide flat berm (Wth 16m) halfway up the mound now visible from NE through E to S only elsewhere the side of the motte has been quarried into from S through W to NW. Motte covered in trees and vegetation. On top of the motte there is a small two-storey 18th-century summer house (int. dims. 4.2m NE-SW; 4.8m NW-SE 4.8m; wall T 0.8m) built with uncoursed sandstone rubble with fireplace at ground and first floor level. Some skeletal material evident in mound material in exposed face of mound at S may suggest that the mound was used in the prehistoric times possibly as a burial mound. Natural hillock which has been scarped around the mound halfway up its natural height and then the material has been dumped up on top of the hillock resulting in its present form and the presence of a berm around the motte. No evidence of any bailey around the base of the motte. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-113 Church
  Description

  In grassland at SE end of N-S ridge in upland area of grassland with good views in all directions. Bruis motte (TS066-111---) located 160m to the N. No evidence of any church inside the rectangular graveyard (TS066-113002-), but the ground rises up to a small mound in the centre of the graveyard which may mark the location of the church. On first edition OS 6-inch map of 1840 the church is located N of centre in the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-113001 Graveyard
  Description

  In grassland at SE end of N-S ridge in upland area of grassland with good views in all directions. Bruis motte (TS066-111----) located 160m to the N. Church (TS066-113001-) located inside rectangular graveyard (dims. 50m NW-SE; 42m E-W) enclosed by rubble built sandstone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m; wall T 0.55m) of probable 19th-century date inside which contains 18th and 19th-century headstones. Ground in centre of graveyard rises up to a small mound in the centre of the graveyard which may mark the location of the church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Mount Bruis, house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1760, formerly with attic, paired end windows to first floor front, central return to rear and lean-to extension to west and rear and adjoining rubble limestone possible former wing to east. Formerly used as rectory and now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls, ruled-and-lined to east gable. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows to front elevation and replacement uPVC to rear, all having limestone sills. Round-headed window to first floor of return. Square-headed door opening with ornately carved limestone doorcase with replacement glazed timber door flanked by limestone pilasters with carved console brackets and surmounted by dentillated carved limestone cornice, formerly having segmental detail or pediment above. Cobbled courtyard to rear of house entered through integral elliptical-headed brick archway in east range. Single- and two-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs and rendered and exposed limestone walls. Six-bay east range converted to accommodation, with recent rendered chimneystacks. Four-bay west range of stables has battened fittings to openings. L-plan south range having five bays to longer and two bays to shorter side, with segmental brick arched carriage entrances. Rendered rounded gate piers to front of site.

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 Bruis, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Bruis with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Bruis · Brí Ois

Area

713,698 m² (71.37 ha, 176.36 acres)

Civil parish

Bruis, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Bruis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

333 people lived in 116 households in the Bruis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagleragh, Ballynamrossagh, Rathkea, Shrough, Toor

Placenames

Bruis 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.