Barkmill

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barkmill, from 312 m² to 122,071 m² (12.21 ha, 30.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Barkmill 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.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  Elevational changes to a dwelling, a revised site boundary, revised site layout and a garden shed

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560297

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  retain extensions to dwelling house, and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22547

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  construct an agricultural shed containing cubicles with underground slatted slurry storage tanks and construct a drafting and handling area adjacent to existing milking parlour and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2260

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  extend duration of planning permission 16/561

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21115

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  construct a dairy parlour, slurry / washings storage tank and collection yard with associated site works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18288

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barkmill.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barkmill.

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 Barkmill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Barkmill · Muileann na Coiste

Area

1,017,303 m² (101.73 ha, 251.38 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

O'Moresforest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

O'Moresforest electoral division: 513 people in 167 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonaheen, Cloncanon Upper, Clonehurk, Clonygowan, Esker, Omoresforest, Skerry

Placenames

Barkmill 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.