Brownstown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown, from 30 m² to 673,342 m² (67.33 ha, 166.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Brownstown 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.

• 18 Sept 2024Conditional

  an extension to the rear of the existing house and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460785

• 25 Sept 2022Conditional

  a) construction of a single storey detached dwelling, b) new detached garage, c) new site entrance, d) new bored well, e) new waste-water treatment system and percolation area, f) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260510

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  relocated vehicular entrance to existing farmland and retention of existing farm access roadway and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21479

• 18 Aug 2020Conditional

  a) construction of a 2-storey detached dwelling, b) new detached garage, c) new site entrance, d) new bored well, e) new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, f) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20916

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  domestic extension to side of existing dwelling house, domestic sheds and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600789

• 7 Jul 2017N/a

  domestic extension to side of existing dwelling house, domestic sheds and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600764

• 24 May 2017N/a

  domestic extension to side of existing dwelling house, domestic sheds and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600576

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 Brownstown.

Recorded monuments

• TN035-056 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of natural rock outcrop in slightly undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'small castle out of repair' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 70). Theobald Purcell is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Only the S wall survives of a small rectangular castle (ext. dims. E-W 8.8m; wall T 2m) orientated on a N-S axis and constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble. There is a ground-floor window (now destroyed) in the centre of the S wall with partial remains of spiral stairs in the SE angle. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN035-074 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground in poorly drained undulating countryside. A raised circular area (diam. 16m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.15m). No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN035-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the gentle E-facing slope of a low rise of ground in undulating pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.7m) with no entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brownstown.

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 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 Brownstown.

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 Brownstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Brownstown · Baile na mBrúnach

Area

1,735,165 m² (173.52 ha, 428.77 acres)

Civil parish

Loughmoe East, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrush electoral division: 556 people in 184 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baronstown, Brittas, Clobanna, Clonamuckoge More, Curraghmore, Killeenleigh, Rossestown

Placenames

Brownstown 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.