Barnhill West

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnhill West, from 96 m² to 193,124 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Barnhill West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Barnhill West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD040-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Prominently sited near the S end of a low plateau in tillage overlooking the Barrow valley to the SW. A circular area (diam. 36m) is defined by a low earthen bank but with no obvious trace of a fosse (although traces of a fosse were visible in 1955 (Danaher 1955, no. 674)). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.15) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse, linked by a linear fosse to a cropmark of a curved annexe adjoining the northern side of the adjacent ringfort (KD040-021). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD040-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 33m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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_2578 (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 Barnhill West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Barnhill West

Area

865,174 m² (86.52 ha, 213.79 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Castledermot, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castledermot electoral division: 1,853 people in 664 households; 70% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyland, Ballyburn Lower, Barnhill East, Dairyfarm, Halfmiletown, Prumpelstown Lower

Placenames

Barnhill West 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.