Barnanstown
Townland in the civil parish of Westpalstown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Bearnáin
- Area
- 74.6 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 372,970 m² (37.3 ha, 92.16 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnanstown, from 3,899 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 742,040 m² (74.2 ha, 183.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 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
27 Feb 2026Grant permission
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0142E
9 Jan 2026Invalid application due to site notice
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0005E
19 Dec 2025Invalid application
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1198E
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 Barnanstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnanstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnanstown.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barnanstown.
- 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 Barnanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Barnanstown · Baile Bearnáin
- Area
- 745,939 m² (74.59 ha, 184.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Westpalstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Ballyboghil, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyboghil electoral division: 1,629 people in 473 households; 79% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Barnanstown 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.