Brackernagh
Brackernagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballycanew, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Bhreaceanach.
- Area
- 63.7 ha
- 157 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,675 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackernagh, from 281 m² to 121,578 m² (12.16 ha, 30.04 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 Brackernagh 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
26 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
RED III Application
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251222
4 Oct 2021Refused
Permission for solar farm consisting of circa 555,000 m2 of solar panels on
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211538
27 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erecta two-storey dwellingwith services, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211511
13 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Retention planning permission for an extension, an attic conversion and garage t
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211121
21 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201094
17 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190835
8 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DORMER BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE.
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190453
31 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190115
2 Jul 2018N/a
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180891
21 May 2018N/a
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180668
16 Mar 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180322
3 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A GARAGE AND STORAGE BUILDING SITUATED WITHIN AN EXISTIN
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170849
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 Brackernagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brackernagh.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1800–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay single-storey centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Extended, pre-1904, producing present composition. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners; limewashed rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds with roughcast cylindrical piers to perimeter having rubble stone solider course coping supporting flat iron "farm gate".
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 Brackernagh, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackernagh.
- 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 Brackernagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Brackernagh · An Bhreaceanach
- Area
- 637,096 m² (63.71 ha, 157.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycanew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballycanew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,227 people lived in 443 households in the Ballycanew electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinamona, Barnadown Lower, Cranacrower, Mountforest, Tomcoyle, Woodpark
- Placenames
- Brackernagh 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.