Brookfield
Brookfield is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Cnocán an Léith.
- Area
- 87.4 ha
- 216 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 1,006 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brookfield, from 75 m² to 229,621 m² (22.96 ha, 56.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brookfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Nov 2022N/a
six glamping pods, a car parking area on existing hardstanding, an on-site waste water treatment and percolation area, bin storage area, visitor notice board and all associated site work
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22646
11 Oct 2022N/a
six glamping pods, a car parking area on existing hardstanding, an on-site waste water treatment and percolation area, bin storage area, signage including a visitor notice board and all associated site work
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22598
23 Aug 2022N/a
six glamping pods, a car parking area on existing hardstanding, an on-site waste water treatment and percolation area, bin storage area, signage including a visitor notice board and all associated site work
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22530
26 Jul 2022N/a
six glamping pods, a car parking area on existing hardstanding, an on-site waste water treatment and percolation area, signage including a visitor notice board, and all associated site work
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22487
23 Jan 2022Conditional
an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, two storey at the front and single storey to the rear, replacement of upper level rear rooflights with dormer windows, internal alterations, all landscaping and ancillary site works associated with the proposed works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260022
14 Jan 2022N/a
the construction of an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, two storey at the front and single storey to the rear, replacement of upper level rear rooflights with dormer windows, internal alterations, all landscaping and ancillary site works associated with the proposed works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260010
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brookfield.
Architectural heritage
- Brookfield House, house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1825, having breakfront with limestone coping to central bay, two-storey return to rear and canted bay window to south gable. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with projecting stucco quoins to corners and breakfront. Timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front with one-over-one pane to breakfront and six-over-six pane to return, all with limestone sills. Paired narrow round-headed windows in segmental-headed recess over entrance door. Recessed round-headed main entrance having replacement glazed door with spoked fanlight, approached by limestone steps. Round-headed doorway having glazed door to balcony over bay window. Single and two-storey stone outbuildings to north and northeast having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Cut-stone gate piers with timber gates at roadside.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Brookfield, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, 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 Brookfield.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Brookfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Brookfield · Cnocán an Léith
- Area
- 873,882 m² (87.39 ha, 215.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 646 people lived in 248 households in the Kilbarron electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Brookfield 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.