Barnaboy

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnaboy. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Barnaboy 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.

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 258 sqm (dwelling house) and 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260541

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnaboy.

Architectural heritage

• Moyne Hill, outbuilding, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey stable block, built c.1840, having ten-bay ground floor and seven-bay first floor. Pitched slate roof. Coursed rubble limestone walls. First floor has six brick-dressed oculus windows with lattice glazing, and square-headed timber battened pitching door. Ground floor has integral carriage arches at each end with tooled voussoirs, flat-headed doorways with timber battened doors, and five brick-dressed oculus windows with spoked glazing. To south is cart shed with pitched slate roof and three integral carriage arches, with similar outbuilding opposite, having brick voussoirs to arches.

• Moyne Hill, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Moyne Hill, erected c.1850, comprising octagonal-plan carved limestone piers to vehicular gateway, and having moulded plinths, string course and moulded cornices. Ornate double-leaf cast-iron gate and similar railings, latter to top of coursed cut-stone quadrant plinth walls. On opposite side of road is low wrought-iron fence atop cut-stone plinth walls and having ornate piers to pedestrian gate. Gateway and railings formerly fronted a gate lodge.

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 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 Barnaboy.

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 Barnaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Barnaboy · An Bhearna Bhuí

Area

845,633 m² (84.56 ha, 208.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkilvery, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Headford electoral division: 1,864 people in 695 households; 75% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfruit, Cordarragh, Kinlough (Co. Mayo), Moyne (Co. Mayo), Tonroe, Toorard (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Barnaboy 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.