Brackloon
Townland in the civil parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 13.5 ha
- 33 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Zone 1
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon, from 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 96,970 m² (9.7 ha, 23.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Sept 2025Conditional
Permission for the following: 1. to demolish existing side extension, partial removal of existing first floor and existing dormer windows, 2. to refurbish existing house to include alterations to elevations and construct new extensions to same, 3. to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, 4. to define existing boundaries with new post and rail fences to the east, north and west of the site, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560455
9 Sept 2025N/a
Permission for the following: 1. To demolish existing side extension, partial removal of existing first floor and existing dormer windows, 2. To refurbish existing house to include alterations to elevations and construct new extensions to same, 3. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, 4. To define existing boundaries with new post and rail fences to the east, north and west of the site, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560428
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643
Recorded monuments
- RO007-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the NW-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge with the S tip of Coothall Lough (dims c. 650m NW-SE; c. 280m NE-SW) c. 160m to the WNW. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 24m) which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.2-1.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) E-SW and a scarp (H 0.9m at NW) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Cashel (RO007-066----) is c. 180m to the SW and cashel (RO007-067----) is c. 160m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brackloon.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1421 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brackloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Brackloon
- Area
- 135,215 m² (13.52 ha, 33.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tumna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Oakport, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Oakport electoral division: 523 people in 198 households; 75% of households own their home; 64% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmona, Cloonacarrow, Foxhill, Lisfarrellboy
- Placenames
- Brackloon 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.