Barnacrow
Barnacrow is a townland in the civil parish of Rathernan, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 138.1 ha
- 341 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 6,111 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacrow, from 141 m² to 349,078 m² (34.91 ha, 86.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barnacrow 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Sept 2026N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (A) SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, CONSISTING OF KITCHEN, UTILITY, EXTERNAL STORAGE AND ATTACHED GARAGE, EXTENDING 37 SQ/M, (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (C) CONNECTION TO ALL RELEVANT EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT BARNACROW, KILMEAGUE, CO. KILDARE. EIRCODE W91 EHF2.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2661077
21 Sept 2026N/a
for the a single storey side extension to existing dwelling, consisting of kitchen, utility, external storage and attached garage, extending 37 sq/m, the decommissioning of existing sewage treatment system and the installation of a new on-site domestic wastewater treatment system, connection to all relevant existing site services and all associated development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2661046
8 Sept 2026N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (A) SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, CONSISTING OF KITCHEN, UTILITY, EXTERNAL STORAGE AND ATTACHED GARAGE, EXTENDING 37 SQ/M, (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (C) CONNECTION TO ALL RELEVANT EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT BARNACROW, KILMEAGUE, CO. KILDARE. EIRCODE W91 EHF2.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2661001
31 Jul 2026N/a
for the restoration and renovation of vernacular style Cottage with permission for new pitched roof on existing cottage, Construction of a single-story front extension, a single-story rear Extension, installation of a new secondary effluent treatment system. And all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660882
24 Jul 2026N/a
for the restoration and renovation of vernacular style cottage with permission for new pitched roof on existing cottage, construction of a single-story front extension, a single-story rear. Extension, installation of a new secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660854
3 Oct 2025N/a
for the restoration and renovation of vernacular style cottage with permission for new pitched roof on existing cottage, construction of a single-story rear extension and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561124
26 Oct 2023Refused
for proposed development consisting of the laying out of a new replacement, relocated and recessed vehicular access with the required sightlines, internal road, blocking up existing vehicular access, stormcell soakaway, new culvert and removal of existing unauthorised culvert, landscaping and associated site work. Retention permission for to retain existing culvert
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23965
19 May 2023Conditional
Extensions and alterations to existing two storey traditional house to include (A) Restoration works to existing two storey house, roof, walls, foundations etc. to include removal of two storey extension to rear of existing house (B) Two storey, single storey + flat roof link extension to side and rear of existing house. (C) New effluent treatment plant and percolation area (D) Landscaping & screen planting (E) All associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23541
24 Feb 2023Refused
the laying out of a new relocated and recessed vehicular access with the required sightlines, internal road, blocking up existing vehicular access, landscaping and associated works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23160
6 Sept 2022Refused
(a) Erection of a single storey garage for domestic use; (b) Controlled demolition of existing vernacular two storey house; (c) Erection of a replacement house to include the footprint of the existing vernacular two storey house to be demolished; (d) Installation of a proprietary secondary effluent treatment system and percolation area and (e) All associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221094
25 Aug 2022N/a
(a) Erection of a single storey garage for domestic use; (b) Controlled demolition of existing vernacular two storey house; (c) Erection of replacement vernacular house to match demolished vernacular house; (d) Extension to the rear (North) elevation of the replacement vernacular house; (e) Internal alterations to replacement vernacular house; (f) Installation of a proprietary secondary effluent treatment system and percolation area and (g) All associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221043
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
- KD018-024 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N372-3) as a small circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m). On a gentle SE-facing slope at the SE foot of the Hill of Allen (OD 676 feet) on wet but partially improved pasture where the surrounding field boundaries as shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. No visible surface trace of the feature survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD018-050 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Cropmark of roughly oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 56m) with possible entrance gap at SE visible on Goole Earth aerial photograph. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 20 February 2019
- KD018-057 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Cropmark of large irregular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 80m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnacrow.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Barnacrow, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barnacrow.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barnacrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Barnacrow
- Area
- 1,381,073 m² (138.11 ha, 341.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathernan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connell
- Electoral division
- Rathernan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 683 people lived in 221 households in the Rathernan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baronstown East, Baronstown West, Carrick, Dunbyrne, Milltown, Wheelam
- Placenames
- Barnacrow 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.