Barnavihall

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnavihall, from 1,000 m² to 303,817 m² (30.38 ha, 75.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Barnavihall 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.

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct a storage shed for straw and feed stuffs to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed: 922.32 sqm, Apron: 253.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21232

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Crit Island West NHA 000254

Recorded monuments

• GA073-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in otherwise level marshy grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (E-W 26m, N-S 17m) defined by a bank. A gap (Wth 1.75m) at NNE could 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

• GA073-022 Enclosure
  Description

  On gently rolling farmland, 200m W of Barnavihall House. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as two conjoined enclosures. The NW enclosure (D c. 25m; GA073-022----) was circular, in contrast to the larger SE one (NE-SW c. 30m, NW-SE c. 20m; GA073-022001-) which was oval in plan. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA073-022001 Enclosure
  Description

  On gently rolling farmland, 200m W of Barnavihall House. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as two conjoined enclosures. The NW enclosure (D c. 25m; GA073-022----) was circular, in contrast to the larger SE one (NE-SW c. 30m, NW-SE c. 20m; GA073-022001-) which was oval in plan. No visible surface trace survives. 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: 7 November 2016

• GA073-023 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat farmland in the grounds of Barnavihall House. Marked on 1st and 3rd eds. (1933) of OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (c. 35m by c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA073-024 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 November 2016

• GA073-025 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Barnavihall, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Barnavihall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Barnavihall · Bearna Mheathán

Area

1,421,774 m² (142.18 ha, 351.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

658 people lived in 225 households in the Kilconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabanaba, Carrowmanagh, Cloonigny, Lissard, Trust

Placenames

Barnavihall 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.