Brownbog
Townland in the civil parish of Toem, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Mhóin Rua
- Area
- 20.4 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 25,449 m² (2.54 ha, 6.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownbog, from 17,223 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres) to 36,141 m² (3.61 ha, 8.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
No zone of a development plan covers Brownbog 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
2 Oct 2025N/a
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and permission to widen existing access road/passage by 3 meters and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560983
17 Sept 2021Conditional
construct entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 211387
30 Jun 2017N/a
the retention of bicycle/fuel shed and for retention of alterations to the constructed works of planning permission 0//1082 that is the "utility building, carport"to be respectively a house with a living room and kitchenette with stairs to attic bedroom and toilet, with to the side, a single storey bedroom and bathroom and permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the east side for to provide a bedroom and bathroom
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600738
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brownbog.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brownbog.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brownbog.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownbog.
- 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 Brownbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Brownbog · An Mhóin Rua
- Area
- 204,384 m² (20.44 ha, 50.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toem, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Cappagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappagh electoral division: 1,006 people in 371 households; 76% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnagassane, Cappagh, Druminda, Knockane
- Placenames
- Brownbog 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.