# Barnhill, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathvilly, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cnoc an Sciobóil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 809,110 m² (80.91 ha, 199.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 130,816 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathvilly, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/rathvilly.md - Barony: Rathvilly - Electoral division: Tiknock, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3094 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10126 - Centre: latitude 52.882878, longitude -6.630077 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 790274: 185,206 m² (18.52 ha, 45.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790274.md - Parcel 790275: 140,618 m² (14.06 ha, 34.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790275.md - Parcel 790016: 134,193 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790016.md - Parcel 790017: 127,440 m² (12.74 ha, 31.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/790017.md - Parcel 810993: 76,834 m² (7.68 ha, 18.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/810993.md - Parcel 5530496: 57,980 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5530496.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 31 Aug 2026, Carlow County Council 2660263: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660263/0 - 26 Aug 2026, Carlow County Council 2660261: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660261/0 - 23 Sept 2025, Carlow County Council 2560289: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560289/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Baggot's Wood, site code 000792 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnhill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnhill. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/barnhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/barnhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/barnhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barnhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Knocklishen Beg: https://everytownland.com/carlow/knocklishen-beg.md - Knocklishen More: https://everytownland.com/carlow/knocklishen-more.md - Tiknock: https://everytownland.com/carlow/tiknock.md - Tombeagh: https://everytownland.com/carlow/tombeagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/barnhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/barnhill