Brookfield
Brookfield is a townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Gort an tSrutháin.
- Area
- 10.5 ha
- 26 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 52,495 m² (5.25 ha, 12.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brookfield, from 73 m² to 104,917 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for development consisting of the change of use of existing offices
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20261153
21 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170497
14 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A CUBICLE HOUSE (78 COWS) WITH SLATTED UNDERGROUND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161388
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 Brookfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brookfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brookfield.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3023 (ZIP).
- 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. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Brookfield · Gort an tSrutháin
- Area
- 104,991 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rathaspick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,818 people lived in 634 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Churchtown, Kellystown, Rathaspick, Whitestown
- 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.