# Barreen, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Balraheen, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish Bairrín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,193,829 m² (119.38 ha, 295 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,988 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Balraheen, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/balraheen.md - Barony: Ikeathy and Oughterany - Electoral division: Balraheen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,559 people lived in 663 households in the Balraheen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/25258 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80146 - Centre: latitude 53.350691, longitude -6.665347 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barreen, from 1,147 m² to 285,606 m² (28.56 ha, 70.57 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1056904: 285,606 m² (28.56 ha, 70.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056904.md - Parcel 1015877: 237,928 m² (23.79 ha, 58.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015877.md - Parcel 1089714: 211,699 m² (21.17 ha, 52.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089714.md - Parcel 1084760: 156,906 m² (15.69 ha, 38.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084760.md - Parcel 1056694: 106,529 m² (10.65 ha, 26.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056694.md - Parcel 1078164: 79,218 m² (7.92 ha, 19.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078164.md - Parcel 1066096: 73,609 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066096.md - Parcel 1081098: 15,062 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081098.md - Parcel 3074529: 4,874 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3074529.md - Parcel 1038699: 3,102 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038699.md - Parcel 3074520: 3,094 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3074520.md - Parcel 2657847: 2,892 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657847.md - Parcel 1071067: 2,876 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071067.md - Parcel 2657842: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657842.md - Parcel 1072573: 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072573.md - Parcel 3074546: 2,318 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3074546.md - Parcel 5445088: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445088.md - Parcel 1031059: 1,147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031059.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 May 2022, Kildare County Council 22526: Conditional. Permission. sought for single storey side extension, storey and a half rear extension using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22526/0 - 10 Mar 2021, Kildare County Council 21299: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, Recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21299/0 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 Barreen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD010-012001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-012001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-012002-. 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 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) - House, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 11901004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11901004. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Barreen, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2755, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2755.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/barreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barreen 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) - Baltracey: https://everytownland.com/kildare/baltracey-80128.md - Clonfert South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonfert-south.md - Cowanstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/cowanstown.md - Graiguelin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/graiguelin.md - Graiguesallagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/graiguesallagh.md - Kealstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kealstown.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/raheen.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/barreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/barreen