# Brierfield, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cloonygormican, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,162,831 m² (116.28 ha, 287.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 34,439 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cloonygormican, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/cloonygormican.md - Barony: Ballymoe - Electoral division: Carrowduff, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 212 people lived in 80 households in the Carrowduff electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43443 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190293 - Centre: latitude 53.73453, longitude -8.275895 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brierfield, from 114 m² to 163,335 m² (16.33 ha, 40.36 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2502319: 163,335 m² (16.33 ha, 40.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2502319.md - Parcel 641479: 157,247 m² (15.72 ha, 38.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/641479.md - Parcel 682370: 97,218 m² (9.72 ha, 24.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/682370.md - Parcel 671375: 92,145 m² (9.21 ha, 22.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/671375.md - Parcel 683718: 91,262 m² (9.13 ha, 22.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683718.md - Parcel 653396: 81,246 m² (8.12 ha, 20.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/653396.md - Parcel 699121: 78,593 m² (7.86 ha, 19.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/699121.md - Parcel 723568: 52,565 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/723568.md - Parcel 717231: 52,128 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/717231.md - Parcel 651799: 42,120 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651799.md - Parcel 696543: 39,355 m² (3.94 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696543.md - Parcel 669638: 38,183 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/669638.md - Parcel 6054461: 37,735 m² (3.77 ha, 9.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6054461.md - Parcel 690486: 36,932 m² (3.69 ha, 9.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/690486.md - Parcel 689195: 36,910 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689195.md - Parcel 677978: 34,439 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/677978.md - Parcel 6054435: 23,182 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6054435.md - Parcel 708280: 22,240 m² (2.22 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708280.md - Parcel 685339: 19,579 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/685339.md - Parcel 670017: 16,039 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/670017.md - Parcel 676163: 10,786 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/676163.md - Parcel 716706: 9,349 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716706.md - Parcel 712619: 6,500 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712619.md - Parcel 713010: 5,510 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/713010.md - Parcel 715110: 4,135 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/715110.md - Parcel 721800: 3,288 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/721800.md - Parcel 674991: 2,396 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/674991.md - Parcel 2887896: 2,196 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2887896.md - Parcel 693745: 1,584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/693745.md - Parcel 681697: 1,188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/681697.md - Parcel 699531: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/699531.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brierfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Jul 2026, Roscommon County Council 2660375: Conditional. Retention. Permission to retain a 4 bay double slatted shed and covered cattle crush & holding yard along with associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660375/0 - 2 Apr 2026, Roscommon County Council 2660145: N/a. Permission. Permission to construct an agricultural slatted house with calf creep and ancillary concrete along with associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660145/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brierfield Turlough, site code 000594 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shad Lough, site code 001648 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO028-175: Kiln, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-175----. Marked as on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as 'Old Kiln' in italic lettering, and situated on a S-facing slope overlooking the W end of Shad Lough. It was associated with Briarfield House c. 60m to the N which, together with all its surrounds, have been removed without trace. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 - RO028-242001: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-242001-. Towards the E end of a broad E-W ridge with a hill rising to the NE, and c. 400m from Shad Lough to the SE. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 6m N-S; 5.8m E-W; H 0.05m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 2-3.8m; D 0.3-0.4m) (max. ext. diam. 19m N-S; 18.3m E-W). Ditch-barrow (RO028-242002-) is 10m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 - RO028-242002: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-242002-. Towards the E end of a broad E-W ridge with a hill rising to the NE, and c. 400m from Shad Lough to the SE. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28.7m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a slight fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; int. D 0.05-0.1m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m). There is no outer bank, and the perimeter at S is overlain by an E-W relict field bank. Ditch-barrow (RO028-242001-) is 10m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brierfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brierfield, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brierfield. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/brierfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/brierfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/brierfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brierfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghabawmore: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballaghabawmore.md - Ballynaheglish: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballynaheglish.md - Carrowbaun: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowbaun-190383.md - Carrowndangan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowndangan.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/grange-191301.md - Tonbaun: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tonbaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/brierfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/brierfield