Brickeens

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brickeens, from 93 m² to 116,999 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  Construction of a 3 bay open slatted shed incorporating slurry storage tank, creep areas and cattle crush, concrete apron and ancillary works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560275

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  RETAIN EXTENSION TO EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE/GASTRO PUB TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22442

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SPECTATOR STAND TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2226

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  Retain existing 24m high telecommunications structure, antennas, equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound. Development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd.'s existing GSM and 3G Broadband telecommunications network. (P11/214 Refers)

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19426

• 1 Nov 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT PREFABRICATED HABITABLE UNIT AND NEW SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18858

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 Brickeens.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brickeens.

Architectural heritage

• Brickeens Bridge, bridge, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over river, under construction 1841; extant 1858. "Repaired". Part repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to piers having domed pyramidal capping with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered hammered limestone rounded coping. Series of three segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt banks to river.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Brickeens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Brickeens · Na Broicíní

Area

1,478,445 m² (147.84 ha, 365.33 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Culnacleha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Culnacleha electoral division: 483 people in 184 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvilla Demesne, Cloontooa, Cuilmore, Cuiltycreaghan, Garryredmond, Kilknock, Tawnagh, Treanrevagh

Placenames

Brickeens 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.