Barberstown

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barberstown, from 26 m² to 348,645 m² (34.86 ha, 86.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Barberstown 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.

• 13 Nov 2025N/a

  the repair and re-imagining of the upper parts of the Tower House and retention of a single storey extension to the Tower dining facilities, to the east of the Protected Structures, the retention of two self-catering lodges with adjacent covered outside seating, the Shepherds Bar with outside seating terrace and toilet block, the Octagonal Lounge and the Therapy Salon; to the west of the Protected Structures, the retention of a cold room facility in the east end of the Banqueting Rooms, change of use of former single storey outbuilding to Licenced bar with associated kitchen extension, store and toilet facilities, Marquee dining space in former yard and a cast iron & patent glazed pergola; to the north of the Hotel, the retention of the water softener shed, the single storey prefabricated offices & staff facilities, the cast iron & patent glazed pergola with fixed seating, the lean-to smoking area, and the double height glazed conservatory style ‘Orangerie’ bar; to the south of the Hotel, the retention of the service yard & associated structures, the hotel overflow car park, and the helipad

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561277

• 26 May 2025Refused

  for the construction of a detached single storey house, single storey domestic garage, connection to public foul sewer and upgrade existing agricultural entrance to a recessed residential entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560556

• 25 May 2024Refused

  for the construction of a detached two storey house, single storey domestic garage, connection to public foul sewer and upgrade existing agricultural entrance to a recessed residential entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460462

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  The re-location and re-orientation of previously granted detached two storey house and single storey domestic garage granted under planning Reference 21/1655. Permission to make minor window amendments to previously approved house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221489

• 18 Nov 2022N/a

  The re-location and re-orientation of previously granted detached two storey house and single storey domestic garage granted under Planning Reference 21/1655. Permission to make minor window amendments to previously approved house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221379

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  the construction of a detached two storey farmhouse, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211655

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  (1) Construction of 1 no. two–storey five-bedroom farmhouse (including farm / home office) with adjoining single storey garage connected via single–storey bootroom to be served by 1 no. new vehicular access from Lovers Lane / Ardrass Road, proprietary wastewater treatment system / percolation area and private bored well ( potable water supply): (2) construction of farmyard complex with associated farm access roads to serve overall livestock farm of 62.33 hectares (154 acres) comprising; (a) 1 no. cubicle shed with loose bedding area for the housing of cattle, storage area and underground effluent tanks with solar panels provided on the southern roof elevation of the building; and (b) 1 no. concrete apron incorporating 2 no. silage pits; (3) construction of 1 no. 16m wind turbine; and (4) all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development include SuDS water drainage, landscaping and boundary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19971

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barberstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD010-022 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In open, level, mixed pasture and tillage, and now used as the S end of a hotel, the main body of which, to the N, dates to the 18th century A possible bawn (KD010-022002-) lies immediately to the S. A well-preserved, almost square, four storied tower (int. dims. L 5.9m N-S; Wth 4.85m; wall T 1.8m) with a vaulted arch over second-floor level and projecting angle towers at the NW (going W) and SW (going S) corners is constructed of roughly coursed rubble masonry. The E wall has a very gentle base-batter, while more pronounced batters are later additions to the bases of the corner towers. The external SE angle is reconstructed in ashlar-type stone suggesting that there may originally have been a third angle tower here. The building is entered through a pointed-arched doorway (Wth 1.05m; H 2.05m) at the W end of the N wall, which may be a later insertion to allow access from the adjoining hotel, and the ground floor is used as a dining-room. A blocked doorway (Wth 0.9m; H 2m) near the N end of the W wall, beside the NW corner tower, may have been the original entrance. A third, brick-lined, blocked doorway (Wth 1.08m) at the centre of the S wall may have given access to the SW angle tower but might also be a later insertion formed by enlarging a window ope? Ground-floor level is lit by two double-splayed loops set in tall flat-arched embrasures in the E wall. The embrasures originally ran down to floor-level but are now built up to sill height. There is a third, smaller, double-splayed loop in the W wall, and a very plain, flat-arched fireplace in the N wall. A fourth, narrow, doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 2.28m), with a round-head rebuilt in brick, at the N end of the W wall gives access to the NW corner tower containing a spiral stairs. The tower is lit by loops at each floor-level with additional, inter-floor-loops also present. The second, SW, corner tower is inaccessible, but is similarly lit. Corbel-stones, beam-slot holes or wall set-backs marking first-floor level are no longer visible, and the square-headed doorway off the stairs to first-floor level is now blocked-up. First-floor level is roofed by a pointed-arched vault orientated on a N-S axis, and is lit by two windows; a single-light, pointed-arched window to N of centre in the E wall, and a similar, but larger window towards the S end of the W wall. Both are set in tall, straight-sided embrasures, with plunging sills, the flat-arched tops of which are cut into the vaulted ceiling above. Access to second-floor level is denied by a locked door in a plain, square-headed doorway off the stairs. Third-floor level is accessed by a similar doorway and is lit by three windows; a pointed-arched, twin-light window is set in a brick-lined, pointed-arched embrasure in the E wall and is matched by a similar arrangement in the W wall, while the S wall contains a square-headed window in a square-headed, gently splaying embrasure. There is a fourth, small, blocked-up square-headed window, in the N wall which also contains a plain, blocked-up fireplace into which modern plumbing pipe work runs. The stairs ends in a small, rectangular cap-house, the upper portion of which is rebuilt in brick. A low, square-headed doorway in the E wall gives to roof level where a concrete floor supports a very large water storage tank from which pipe work runs into a blocked-up, brick fireplace in the N wall. Its low, brick chimney is in the 17th century Jacobean style but may be a later copy of same. The battlements are rebuilt in brick. At the SW angle a second small, rectangular caphouse, with a concrete floor, crowns the inaccessible projecting tower. All of the windows are rebuilt externally in brick, in a Victorian-Gothic style. Archaeological excavation (Licence No. 03E1745: www.excavations.ie) in advance of development in the later walled garden c. 60m to the NW produced some medieval pottery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD010-022001 Bawn
  Description

  Some 6m S of a tower house (KD010-022001-) and separated from it by a later building, a short portion of wall (L 5.8m E-W; H 3.1m; T 1m) built of roughly coursed rubble masonry contains a blocked loop, and may be the remains of a bawn wall. A tall gate pier at its W end is not bonded to the wall and appears to be a later feature. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD010-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (GSI N 468, 469) as the very faint cropmark of a fosse enclosing an oval area. Near the top of a long, gentle E-facing slope in extensively reclaimed pasture, from where all the surrounding field boundaries shown on the latest ed. (1911) of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD010-057 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 13m) intersected at E by field boundary visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-058 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-059 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 13m) with barrow (KD010-060----) attached to SSE visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-060 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 5m) with larger ditch-barrow (KD010-059----) attached to NNW visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-061 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 5m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-062 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 5m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-063 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 5m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-064 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

• KD010-065 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  One of a group of nine ditch-barrows (KD010-057----/065-) located in same field. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure/barrow (approx. diam. 12m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018, area of barrow cemetery shown in red outline, individual monument depicted with white dashed outline. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 12 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2836 (ZIP).

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 Barberstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Barberstown · Baile an Bharbaigh

Area

561,463 m² (56.15 ha, 138.74 acres)

Civil parish

Straffan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Straffan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Straffan electoral division: 2,513 people in 758 households; 83% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrass Lower, Ardrass Upper, Barberstown Lower, Barberstown Upper, Bawnoges, Straffan

Placenames

Barberstown 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.