Brackloon

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackloon, from 46 m² to 140,918 m² (14.09 ha, 34.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Brackloon 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.

• 2 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for: 1) a change of use & full restoration of an existing derelict school building to a domestic dwelling house; 2) the installation of a waste water treatment unit within the curtilage of the site; 3) the formation of a new vehicular entrance to the site from the public road & 4) all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22594

• 5 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and percolation area together with new entrance onto the public road and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21449

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bellanagare Bog SAC 000592
• Special Protection Area: Bellanagare Bog SPA 004105
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellanagare Bog 000592

Recorded monuments

• RO021-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf on a S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 23m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and flat-bottomed fosse (at NE: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.5m at NNE) NW-E-SE and a scarp (H 0.4m) SW of a NW-SE field bank and drain which bisects the monument in Brackloon townland. The fosse is traceable as a complete band of rushes (Wth 6.4m), and an outer bank as a scar SE-W-NW. The entrance (Wth 1.8m) is at NE, and the interior is overgrown NE of the field bank and townland boundary but in pature SW of it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-099 Standing stone
  Description

  Towards the top of a gentle SE-facing slope. Upright stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims. 0.5m x 0.3-0.4m; H 1.5m) oriented NW-SE. See the attached view from the E. 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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1139 (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.

No address of the register names Brackloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Brackloon

Area

2,182,963 m² (218.3 ha, 539.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorkey, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Baslick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Baslick electoral division: 147 people in 55 households; 93% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baslick, Cloonbard, Cloonsheever, Corlis, Tully

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.