# Barnacragh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcloony, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway; in Irish Bearna Chreach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 233,329 m² (23.33 ha, 57.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,294 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcloony, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcloony.md - Barony: Clonmacnowen - Electoral division: Ballinasloe Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 555 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinasloe Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17673 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60496 - Centre: latitude 53.30788, longitude -8.283492 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacragh, from 64 m² to 68,059 m² (6.81 ha, 16.82 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2011540: 68,059 m² (6.81 ha, 16.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011540.md - Parcel 2011538: 48,056 m² (4.81 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011538.md - Parcel 2011539: 36,073 m² (3.61 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011539.md - Parcel 4837785: 28,229 m² (2.82 ha, 6.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4837785.md - Parcel 4812020: 23,916 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812020.md - Parcel 4812012: 10,778 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812012.md - Parcel 4812021: 7,963 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812021.md - Parcel 1940625: 4,777 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1940625.md - Parcel 2011536: 3,662 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011536.md - Parcel 2011535: 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011535.md - Parcel 4692731: 2,837 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4692731.md - Parcel 4812009: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812009.md - Parcel 2011537: 1,855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2011537.md - Parcel 4812017: 1,674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812017.md - Parcel 4812015: 1,674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812015.md - Parcel 1940626: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1940626.md - Parcel 4692791: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4692791.md - Parcel 1940627: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1940627.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Barnacragh 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. - 15 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2560955: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of a house and garage on revised site boundaries from those originally granted in 1976, Pl Ref 21703. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 114 (H), 23.66 sqm(G). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560955/0 - 13 Mar 2025, Galway County Council 2560261: Conditional. Outline permission. to construct a new dwelling , effluent treatment system and percolation area and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560261/0 - 11 Nov 2024, Galway County Council 2461516: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. for a new dwelling, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461516/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barnacragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA087-011: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA087-011----. In gently undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (ENE-WSW 30m, NNW-SSE 28m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. Traces of a possible external fosse are visible from NW to NNW. A gap (Wth 4m) at E may be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnacragh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Barnacragh, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1279, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1279.zip (ZIP). - 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/galway/barnacragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnacragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnacragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barnacragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Curragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/curragh-61652.md - Liscappul: https://everytownland.com/galway/liscappul.md - Loughbown: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughbown.md - Urraghry: https://everytownland.com/galway/urraghry.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/galway/barnacragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/barnacragh