# Barrowford, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilberry, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Áth na Bearú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 427,721 m² (42.77 ha, 105.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,970 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 Agriculture, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 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): 4,548 people lived in 1,506 households in the Athy Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned 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/24872 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80153 - Centre: latitude 53.006382, longitude -6.993879 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrowford, from 304 m² to 168,552 m² (16.86 ha, 41.65 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018582: 168,552 m² (16.86 ha, 41.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018582.md - Parcel 1058647: 142,877 m² (14.29 ha, 35.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058647.md - Parcel 1027327: 37,170 m² (3.72 ha, 9.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027327.md - Parcel 1021417: 28,288 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021417.md - Parcel 1057172: 6,818 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057172.md - Parcel 1045924: 5,782 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045924.md - Parcel 1072630: 4,626 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072630.md - Parcel 1018369: 4,005 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018369.md - Parcel 1031296: 3,830 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031296.md - Parcel 1038857: 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038857.md - Parcel 1071020: 3,325 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071020.md - Parcel 1044806: 3,110 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1044806.md - Parcel 1031073: 2,970 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031073.md - Parcel 1078214: 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078214.md - Parcel 1075966: 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075966.md - Parcel 1067968: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067968.md - Parcel 4882487: 1,408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882487.md - Parcel 1045925: 1,103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045925.md - Parcel 1017202: 971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017202.md - Parcel 1046584: 908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046584.md - Parcel 4882485: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882485.md - Parcel 4882484: 706 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882484.md - Parcel 1016351: 343 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016351.md - Parcel 1015051: 309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015051.md - Parcel 4882486: 304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882486.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 Agriculture: Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/AthyLocalAreaPlan2021-2027/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 11 Feb 2026, Kildare County Council 2660123: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, connection to public watermain, new splayed entrance and all associated ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660123/0 - 4 Feb 2026, Kildare County Council 2660097: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, connection to public watermain, new splayed entrance and all associated ancillary site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660097/0 - 13 May 2024, Kildare County Council 2460419: N/a. Permission. the construction of a produce store and ancillary works (i.e. minor landscaping, SUDS stormwater drainage area, concrete yards areas) - all for agricultural purposes only in a new farmyard utilising the existing access road and existing farm entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460419/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barrowford. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barrowford. ## 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 Barrowford, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2352, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2352.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/barrowford.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barrowford.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barrowford.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barrowford 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) - Belview: https://everytownland.com/kildare/belview.md - Cardington Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/cardington-demesne.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/milltown-80864.md - Paudeenourstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/paudeenourstown.md - Tomard: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tomard.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/kildare/townparks-81195.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/barrowford - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/barrowford