Brockna
Brockna is a townland in the civil parish of Kilranelagh, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is 0.
- Area
- 139.7 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brockna, from 316 m² to 438,057 m² (43.81 ha, 108.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Brockna 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
6 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling, domestic car garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, new entrance off existing laneway & all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560991
10 Oct 2025Conditional
Retention Planning Permission is sought to retain dormer roof with dormer and velux windows as constructed to the front and side of existing dwelling house as an alteration to that granted under PL Ref: 00/2228, Retention Planning Permission is sought to retain first floor attic storage areas as constructed and to retain single storey extension as constructed to the side of the existing dwelling house including the retention of outdoor private amenity area as constructed to the front / side of existing dwelling. Retention Planning Permission is sought to retain domestic shed as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling and Retention Planning Permission is sought to retain domestic garage with games room at first floor level as constructed to the side of existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560810
23 Dec 2024N/a
the construction of a new dormer bungalow, domestic car garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, new entrance off existing laneway & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460828
14 Nov 2024N/a
construction of a new dormer bungalow, domestic car garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, new entrance off existing laneway & all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460708
29 Aug 2024Conditional
attic conversion for two additional bedrooms with four dormer windows to the rear. Single-storey extension to the rear. Four Velux windows to the front roof area
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460524
22 Aug 2024N/a
attic conversion for two additional bedrooms with four dormer windows to the rear. Also single-storey extension to the rear. Four Velux windows to the front roof area
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460509
15 Nov 2023Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of planning Reg. Ref. 00/2144), from restricted use to use of a dwelling by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23839
2 May 2023Conditional
of an existing 49.7m2 single storey domestic garage and all associated ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23426
1 Mar 2019Conditional
154 sqm bungalow, new vehicular entrance, bored well, effluent treatment and disposal system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19218
15 May 2018Refused
single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18516
2 Oct 2017Conditional
two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area and ancillary site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171187
17 Jul 2017N/a
single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17861
24 Jan 2017Refused
single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1763
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 Brockna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brockna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brockna.
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 Brockna, 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 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 Brockna.
- 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 Brockna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Brockna · 0
- Area
- 1,396,549 m² (139.65 ha, 345.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilranelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Talbotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 456 people lived in 154 households in the Talbotstown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barraderry East, Barraderry North, Humewood, Newtown, Talbotstown Lower, Talbotstown Upper
- Placenames
- Brockna 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.