Brittas
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Briotás
- Area
- 99.8 ha
- 247 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 113,367 m² (11.34 ha, 28.01 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA-DM
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brittas, from 11,224 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres) to 400,010 m² (40 ha, 98.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
- G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Mar 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention of (i) enclosure of original front porch, (ii) porch and front door to side, (iii) conservatory to front, (iv) detached shed to front, (v) detached shed to side/rear, (vi) feature 2.7m high wall to front and (vii) increased curtilage including repositioned vehicular access off private lane.
Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD17B/0072
25 Feb 2000Grant permission
Modifications to approved golf course, Reg. Ref. S99A/0149, on 11 hectares of land being the smaller part of an 18 hole golf course, re-alignment of fairways 13, 14 and 15, the relocation of the tee boxes for hole numbers 13 and 15, and the removal of the proposed twelfth green and part of the proposed lake between fairways 12 and 13.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S00A/0117
10 Mar 1999Grant permission
To develop 11 hectares of golf course, being the smaller part of a proposed 18 hole golf course (including tees, fairways, greens, bunkers, water and land features, tree planting, landscaping and ancillary works) and for 160 metres of an access road to service the course and the proposed club house, off street parking and other facilities to be built in Co. Wicklow (and for which a separate application will be made).
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S99A/0149
23 Dec 1996Refuse outline permission
Dormer bungalow and septic tank.
Outline permission · South Dublin County Council, S96A/0743
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 Brittas.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brittas.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3010 (ZIP).
- 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 Brittas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Brittas · An Briotás
- Area
- 998,169 m² (99.82 ha, 246.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 1,093 people in 367 households; 85% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghfarrell (Co. Dublin), Brittas Big (Co. Dublin), Brittas Little (Co. Dublin), Butter Mountain, Gortlum (Co. Dublin), Knockbane, Lisheens
- 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.