Brittas

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 65 m² to 825,738 m² (82.57 ha, 204.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space/Amenity (Active open space)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential 2 (New/proposed residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560526

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  make aterations to existing planning permission ref 22643 to allow a change of design from a flat roof to a pitched roof dwelling house and garage 2) Alterations to fenestration, internal layout and floor plan 3) and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560420

• 9 Jan 2025Conditional

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, site entrance, connection to public watermains, a septic tank/ effluent treatment system, a percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560010

• 8 Jan 2025N/a

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, site entrance, connection to public watermains, a septic tank/ effluent treatment system, a percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560008

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  develop a two storey dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system, polishing filter, domestic garage and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted on request of the Planning Authority under Section 177t(5).

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460719

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  Construct a single-storey dwelling; a new recessed residential entrance; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. Natura Impact Statement submitted on request of S177T(5).

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460451

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  change house type from that previously granted under application number 22/387, from a two storey dwelling to a part single storey part two storey dwelling and alterations to the front/southern boundary.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360476

• 27 Oct 2023N/a

  change house type from that previously granted under application number 22/387, from a two storey dwelling to a part single storey part two storey dwelling and alterations to the southern boundary.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360454

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  amend the location and design of the dwelling previously approved under Planning Register No. 20/347

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23101

• 14 Oct 2022N/a

  provide one new dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new vehicular access from public road, new domestic waste water treatment system with percolation area and all assoiated site works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22643

• 27 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct a proposed two storey dwelling house, garage, landscaping and boundary treatment, proposed site entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22387

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  construct a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and access way and all associated works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has bee prepared in relation to the proposed development and accompanied this planning application

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20347

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18483

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA002-017 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  No surface remains visible, unlikely location for a moated site. Probably only wooded area that is shown on 1910 OS 6-inch map. Not indicated on first edition of the OS 6-inch map and only outlined like a landscape feature on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-019 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Possible killeen consisting of a flat subcircular area enclosed by a modern hedge and iron railings; no surface evidence of grave-markers, stonework etc. which might indicate the exact type of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-020 House - 17th century
  Description

  Brittas House current house was constructed in the nineteenth century possibly built on or near to the site of an earlier dwelling of seventeenth century date. The house was described in 1978 as a 'Castellated house of sandstone with limestone dressings built 1869 by Major Gen Rt Hon Francis Plunkett Dunne, MP, to the design of John McCurdy' (Bence-Jones 1978, 48). In 1990 this building was recorded as a 'Castellated house with terraces to E and built of hammer dressed limestone which has fine drafting on its edges. There is a castellated gate tower with entranceway of four pointed arches, the inner three being of brick and the outermost of limestone. The gate tower stands close to the NE angle and gave access to a courtyard. The outer arch of the gateway has limestone roll mouldings. Window at first floor level over the archway is a three-light oriel built with sandstone. The rest of the house is very ruined in some instances down to its foundations' (SMR File 1990). Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as the 'Remains of detached country house, built in 1869 to designs by John McCurdy, comprising three-storey over basement tower. Remainder of house dismantled to ground level. No roof to main structure. Sandstone ashlar walls with buttresses and castellated parapet to turret on corbels. Pointed-arch window openings to ground floor, square-headed window openings to upper floors and canted oriel window to first floor with sandstone surrounds. Four-centred arch door opening with hood moulding, fittings now gone. Sandstone and brick internal walls. Set back from road in own grounds; overgrown grounds to site. Group of detached two-storey outbuildings to site, now derelict. Detached gate lodge to site. Gateway to site (at Main Street, Clonaslee) comprising sandstone piers' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). The castle was destroyed by a fire in 1942. The two storey out-buildings of the castellated house may incorporate fabric of the 17th century building. It has been suggested that in the 17th century 'The Dunnes built a mansion at right angles to this, facing north-east. Concurrently, they heightened the thatched building to accommodate the servants' (www.askaboutireland.ie). Alternatively it is possible that the 17th century dwelling which preceded the 19th century castellated house was located at another location within the demesne of Brittas House. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/ revision: 15 September 2010

• LA002-028 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Cropmark of designed landscape feature or possible tree-ring (diam. approx. 72m) on the estate of Brittas Demesne the curving outline of which is partially indicated as a tree-plantation on the OSi historic maps is visible on OSi orthophotos. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Sarah Sherlock Date of upload: 1 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• Brittas House, country house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached country house, built 1869, comprising three-storey over basement tower with remainder of house dismantled to ground level. Designed by John McCurdy. Group of derelict detached two-storey outbuildings to site. Detached gate lodge to site. Gateway to 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 Brittas, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1942 (ZIP).

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

Name

Brittas · An Briotás

Area

2,003,478 m² (200.35 ha, 495.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Clonaslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunastick, Capparogan, Clonaslee, Coolnabanch, Glenkeen Lower, Gorragh Lower, Scarroon, Srahduff Glebe

Placenames

Brittas 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.