Brittas

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 1,005,142 m² (100.51 ha, 248.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 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.

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  the existing dwelling house and to retain the detached domestic storage shed and including all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24282

• 24 May 2018Conditional

  the indefinite retention of as-constructed farm road way and permission to complete same and for permission to construct a new farm entrance

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600647

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling and associated site entrance and boundaries, and for construction of a new replacement single storey dwelling with new site entrance, and all associated site development works including septic tank and effluent treatment modules and percolation area, and for construction of a new farm road to link with existing farm road

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600643

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 Brittas.

Recorded monuments

• TS060-061 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, surrounded by grassland. A possible ringfort (TS060-062----) is visible c. 300m upslope to the SE. A roughly circular area (diam. 34.7m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by gently sloping scarp (H 0.5m; Wth 2.2m), a fosse (Wth 3.5m) and a possible outer bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. H 0.52m; Wth crest 1.8m; Wth base 3.85m) which has been augmented to form a field boundary or is a later field boundary which respects the curve of the monument. This outer bank/field boundary is evident from NE-E-SW and is indicated on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map as a field boundary which, in the NE quadrant, continues northward to intersect with two other field boundaries. A field boundary, with a farm road running immediately W of it, runs roughly N-S through the W quadrant, truncating the western edge of the monument which is not visible at ground level W of this field boundary. The interior is fairly level and has been planted with a mixed plantation of coniferous and deciduous trees. The monument is fenced off by a wooden fence with electric wire. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the W end of a low E-W ridge in gently undulating grassland. A ringfort (TS060-063----) lies c. 15m to ESE and the Rock of Cashel (TS061-025003-) is clearly visible 1.5km to the ESE. A roughly circular area (diam. 44m N-S; 41m E-W) defined by a flat-topped bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m; Wth crest 1.8m; Wth base 5.1m), which falls gradually to the interior, and the possible remains of a fosse (Wth 6.5m; D 0.48m) which is visible intermittently from SW-W-NW. This monument is depicted on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map in a similar fashion to its neighbouring ringfort which suggests that it was itself a ringfort which was subsequently landscaped as a tree-ring on the grounds of Brittas House. The outer face of the bank has a dry-stone revettment c. 1m high around the complete circuit and mature beech trees are growing on top of the bank. There is a gap in the bank in the SE quadrant (Wth 2m) which may have been the original entrance, facing directly towards the neighbouring ringfort. The level interior is overgrown with elder scrub. The monument is fenced off by a wooden fence with electric wire. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low E-W ridge in gently undulating grassland. A possible ringfort (TS060-063----) lies c. 15m to WNW and the Rock of Cashel (TS061-025003-) is clearly visible c. 1.5km to the ESE.A roughly D-shaped enclosure (diam. 26m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.87m; Wth crest 1.7m; Wth base 5m) with a high stone content and a fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.2m) which is deepest in the S quadrant and is not visible above ground from the NW-N-NNE. It is depicted as being circular on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and as being roughly D-shaped on the 2nd (1906) edition. There is a gap (Wth 1.7m) in the W quadrant facing the neighbouring possible ringfort, which may be the original entrance. There is also a gap (Wth 3.1m) in the E quadrant, near the NE corner, which has a possible causeway over the fosse. The interior, which appears to be level, and the bank are obscured by hummocks of grass and there is scrub and brambles growing around the edge of the monument. There is a small area of quarrying in the fosse in the SW quadrant. A field boundary runs NNE-SSW past the SE quadrant and meets a field boundary running roughly E-W c. 13m S of the monument. The monument is fenced by a wooden fence with electric wire to the N and W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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).

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.

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.

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

Name

Brittas · An Briotás

Area

1,085,116 m² (108.51 ha, 268.14 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patricksrock, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel Rural electoral division: 3,083 people in 1,039 households; 62% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamona, Camus, Carrollspark, Freaghduff, Horeabbey, Hughes'-Lot West, Monagee, Mountjudkin

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.