# Barkersford, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilberry, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 514,540 m² (51.45 ha, 127.15 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,281 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilberry, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/kilberry.md - Barony: Narragh and Reban West - Electoral division: Athy Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24871 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80133 - Centre: latitude 53.001339, longitude -6.947408 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barkersford, from 4 m² to 137,130 m² (13.71 ha, 33.89 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1034711: 137,130 m² (13.71 ha, 33.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034711.md - Parcel 1070429: 117,444 m² (11.74 ha, 29.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070429.md - Parcel 1053753: 52,577 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053753.md - Parcel 1040829: 41,803 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040829.md - Parcel 1056070: 40,241 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056070.md - Parcel 1080874: 29,927 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080874.md - Parcel 1089416: 29,368 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089416.md - Parcel 1058795: 17,377 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058795.md - Parcel 1015424: 13,133 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015424.md - Parcel 1014811: 8,328 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014811.md - Parcel 1068107: 8,234 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068107.md - Parcel 1070561: 6,368 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070561.md - Parcel 1013663: 5,376 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013663.md - Parcel 1075782: 2,934 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075782.md - Parcel 1084551: 1,742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084551.md - Parcel 4251809: 1,574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4251809.md - Parcel 1090816: 766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090816.md - Parcel 4251449: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4251449.md - Parcel 4251549: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4251549.md - Parcel 4251849: 4 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4251849.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Barkersford 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2023, Kildare County Council 23451: N/a. Retention. 1. for alterations to previously granted application PL. No. 18/815 to include increase of floor area and positioning of doors, 2. Permission for new signage, new roof sheeting to original building, hardcore surfacing, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23451/0 - 9 Jul 2018, Kildare County Council 18815: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an extension to the N-east elevation of my existing shed to be used for the storage of pallets, use of existing entrance, on-site parking and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18815/0 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 Barkersford. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD035-119: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD035-119----. In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmark of a wide fosse enclosing a roughly circular area (estimated maximum diameter c. 90m). Cropmarks of narrower concentric fosses appear to run just inside and outside the main fosse, while a cropmark of another fosse from SE to S to NW may be the remains of an associated field system. A later field boundary obscures the NE limits of the enclosure (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21-12-2015 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 Barkersford. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2451, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2451.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/kildare/barkersford.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barkersford.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barkersford.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barkersford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Forest: https://everytownland.com/kildare/forest.md - Foxhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/foxhill.md - Gallowshill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gallowshill.md - Geraldine: https://everytownland.com/kildare/geraldine.md - Russellstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/russellstown-81089.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/kildare/barkersford - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/barkersford