Brittas
Brittas is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Briotás.
Parcel 941776
- Area
- 28,143 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Brittas
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- MA119-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a level ridge-top plateau. Located just below the crest of the ridge, which rises gently to W−NW, and close to the fall of ground on the SE side, which gives extensive views NE−S over a broad sweep of rolling grassland. A slightly raised circular area (40.4m N−S; 41.1m E−W) defined by a substantial earthen bank. At W−N, there is a single rough basal course of stone facing. Elsewhere around the circuit, stones protrude randomly from the dilapidated internal face of the bank –possibly remnants of an original stone facing. The bank has a fairly broad and flattened top; it is riddles with rabbit burrows and eroded in parts by cattle. There is a break (Wth 5m) at NNE and another (Wth 3m) at E. Immediately outside the bank at E is a hollow area (c. 10m across) with a pool of water in its base, surrounded by overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 May 2023
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_449 (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.
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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
- 60.6 ha
- 150 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 28,143 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 1,298 m² to 133,251 m² (13.33 ha, 32.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Brittas 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
14 Feb 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, REMOVE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2089
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 Brittas.
Recorded monuments
- MA119-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In good grazing, on a very gently E-facing slope, providing good views. The ground rises gradually to W. Subcircular platform (39.4m N−S; c. 36m E−W) defined by a substantial scarp/bank, outside which it is enclosed by a broad, flat-based fosse. It is shown on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure, but the W side is now linear, with the effect that the site appears squarish in plan or subrectangular with rounded corners. It is difficult to examine due to dense overgrowth. The bank/scarp (Wth 3.5m at N, c. 4m at E; int. H c. 0.5m ; ext. H c. 2m at N, 1.7-1.8m at E and S) retains a slight internal lip on the E half, and has a sharply vertical external scarp dropping into the fosse. It appears rather linear at N and E, but curves slightly on the S side, with rounded corners at SE and SW. The scarp on the W side is distinctly linear and is lower and more dilapidated than elsewhere. Towards the SW end, there are possible traces of stone-facing and it appears to be topped with remnants of rough stone walling, with stone tumble on the slope. The fosse (Wth 3.5m; ext. D 1.4m) has a well defined, almost vertical face on its external face. A semicircular area (c. 6m E−W; 2.2.5m N−S) cut into the external face of the fosse on the N side is said locally to have been the site of a well –now silted up. There are short remnants of a wall at the outer edge of the fosse at NE and NW. At W-NW, the fosse is expanded to a broader space (Wth 10m), the result of quarrying disturbance in the modern era. The base of the fosse on the E half is wet and silty, with standing water in the winter. According to local information, the fosse was periodically ‘cleaned out’ in the past. The perimeter is ringed by blackthorn, hawthorn, holly and brambles, with blackthorn encroaching on the interior. There are badger sets in the scarp. The rath appears to survive much as it was when Knox (1911, 239-40) recorded in the early 1900’s as ‘a common earthen fort with a ditch and small rampart around the garth, somewhat ruined on one side by digging for gravel.’ Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 May 2023
- MA119-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located on gently elevation ground. This rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled, but its outline is still evident at ground level. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (36m N−S; c. 40m E−W) defined by a bank with an external fosse. The levelled bank can be traced SE−NE as a low undulation. It has a broad, low external slope (Wth slope c. 4m; ext. H c. 0.4m), slumping seamlessly into the fosse, which is evident as a broad, shallow depression (W 4-5m) marked by differential grass growth. On the E arc, the bank is barely discernible and the fosse is not evident at ground level –it is likely that the entrance was located on this side. A medieval church (MA111-048001-) and graveyard (MA111-048002-) are located 250m to NW. An early 19th-century glebe house stands 80m to NE. Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère Attached image: MA119-076----_01.JPG viewed from west Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 March 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brittas.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Brittas, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_449 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Brittas · An Briotás
- Area
- 605,713 m² (60.57 ha, 149.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Kilcommon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bushfield, Cregduff, Creggawatta, Kilcommon, Lugatallin, Shantallow
- 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.