Barreen

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barreen, from 1,147 m² to 285,606 m² (28.56 ha, 70.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Barreen 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.

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  sought for single storey side extension, storey and a half rear extension using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22526

• 10 Mar 2021Refused

  the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, Recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21299

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 Barreen.

Recorded monuments

• KD010-012001 Church
  Description

  Towards the E end of a graveyard (KD010-012002-). According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 25), 'Scarsely the vestiges of the old Church (were) observable …'. The area is totally overgrown but a shallow rectangular depression (dims. L 15m E-W; Wth 5m; D 1.2m) may mark the site of the church. In 1998, five trenches were archaeologically excavated (Licence no. 98E0559) to test an area in advance of a proposed development near the church and graveyard. A small pit-like feature cut into the natural subsoil was exposed c. 20m SW of the graveyard. The peat-like fill produced medieval pottery and animal bones. The pottery dates to the 13th-15th centuries and suggests activity in the area at that time, although its nature and extent are not known and there were no other finds in the remainder of the area tested. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD010-012002 Graveyard
  Description

  On level ground at the N-end of a low, narrow, N-S pasture ridge, and containing a church site (KD010-012001-). Although not named as a graveyard on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, the site was referred to in the OSL (Herity 2002, 25) as a 'burial ground'. A large, sub-rectangular area (dims. L c. 100m ENE-WSW; Wth c. 50m) is enclosed by a modern concrete wall and contains a few illegible headstones near the W and S ends. The interior is very uneven underfoot with numerous tussocks and is higher (H 1.2-1.6m) than surrounding ground level. In 1998, five trenches were archaeologically excavated (Licence no. 98E0559) to test an area in advance of a proposed development near the church and graveyard. A small pit-like feature cut into the natural subsoil was exposed c. 20m SW of the graveyard. The peat-like fill produced medieval pottery and animal bones. The pottery dates to the 13th-15th centuries and suggests activity in the area at that time, although its nature and extent are not known and there were no other finds in the remainder of the area tested. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, c.1880, on a symmetrical plan retaining early aspect with round-headed door opening to centre. Hipped gabled roof with slate. Mineral felt over. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Early timber casement windows with central mullion. Round-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Decorative fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns and path to forecourt.Gateway, c.1880, to east comprising pair of stone piers with ball finials having iron gates.

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 20 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_2755 (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 Barreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Barreen · Bairrín

Area

1,193,829 m² (119.38 ha, 295 acres)

Civil parish

Balraheen, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Balraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Balraheen electoral division: 2,559 people in 663 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baltracey, Clonfert South, Cowanstown, Graiguelin, Graiguesallagh, Kealstown, Raheen

Placenames

Barreen 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.