Barnhill

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnhill, from 57,980 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres) to 185,206 m² (18.52 ha, 45.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Barnhill 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, new treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto existing lane which leads to public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660263

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, new treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto existing lane which leads to public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660261

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  for permission for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, new septic tank and percolation area, new well, new entrance onto existing lane which leads to public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560289

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Baggot's Wood 000792

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnhill.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 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

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

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.

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

Name

Barnhill · Cnoc an Sciobóil

Area

809,110 m² (80.91 ha, 199.94 acres)

Civil parish

Rathvilly, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Tiknock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tiknock electoral division: 348 people in 115 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knocklishen Beg, Knocklishen More, Tiknock, Tombeagh

Placenames

Barnhill 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.