Brittas

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 14 m² to 865,524 m² (86.55 ha, 213.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Brittas 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Brittas in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WI022-007 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated beside a small stream in a boulder-strewn, marshy area. Large earthfast granite boulder with four basins (diams. 0.27-0.3m; D 0.1-0.12m); three form line on the E side and the fourth is opposite to the W. A possible fifth basin at the E side is entirely covered by peat. Known locally as the hand print of St Lawrence O'Toole. On the most recent field visit (2012) this bullaun was found to be completely submerged in water. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 21 November 2012

• WI022-007001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Beside a small stream in a very marshy area. A subrectangular bullaun stone (L c. 1.2m; Wth c. 0.8m; H at S 0.25m; H at N 0.05m) c. 12m S of another bullaun which is deeply submerged in water (WI022-007----). This bullaun has two circular basins. One basin (Wth 0.25m x 0.33m; D 0.15m) is split in two (E-W) where the stone was split (drill-hole evident). A second shallow basin (Wth 0.24m; D 0.07m) is 0.28m from the S edge and 0.11m from the W edge of the boulder. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 November 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Brittas, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brittas.

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.

No address of the register names Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Brittas · An Briotás

Area

1,682,165 m² (168.22 ha, 415.67 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Imael North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

257 people lived in 93 households in the Imael North electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinclea, Blane, Knickeen, Leitrim, Seskin, Stranahely

Placenames

Brittas 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.