# Barkmill, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Muileann na Coiste. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,017,303 m² (101.73 ha, 251.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,677 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: O'Moresforest, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 513 people lived in 167 households in the O'Moresforest electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28588 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100169 - Centre: latitude 53.092195, longitude -7.384792 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barkmill, from 312 m² to 122,071 m² (12.21 ha, 30.16 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5874754: 122,071 m² (12.21 ha, 30.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5874754.md - Parcel 263881: 111,574 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263881.md - Parcel 233945: 83,476 m² (8.35 ha, 20.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233945.md - Parcel 267063: 80,546 m² (8.05 ha, 19.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267063.md - Parcel 260796: 79,722 m² (7.97 ha, 19.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260796.md - Parcel 5804118: 79,164 m² (7.92 ha, 19.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5804118.md - Parcel 232974: 78,913 m² (7.89 ha, 19.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232974.md - Parcel 264733: 77,001 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264733.md - Parcel 246009: 65,798 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246009.md - Parcel 233167: 40,879 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233167.md - Parcel 232973: 36,616 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232973.md - Parcel 267058: 18,018 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267058.md - Parcel 252886: 15,752 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252886.md - Parcel 267060: 15,391 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267060.md - Parcel 256912: 13,956 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256912.md - Parcel 252885: 13,398 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252885.md - Parcel 231335: 10,579 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231335.md - Parcel 267857: 7,146 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267857.md - Parcel 256913: 5,994 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256913.md - Parcel 232972: 5,287 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232972.md - Parcel 241905: 4,289 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241905.md - Parcel 5362586: 4,084 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362586.md - Parcel 5362578: 3,962 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362578.md - Parcel 4946769: 3,937 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4946769.md - Parcel 228871: 2,864 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228871.md - Parcel 251325: 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251325.md - Parcel 3969541: 2,615 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3969541.md - Parcel 245617: 1,952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/245617.md - Parcel 4703808: 896 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4703808.md - Parcel 238377: 312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/238377.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 16 May 2025, Laois County Council 2560297: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Elevational changes to a dwelling, a revised site boundary, revised site layout and a garden shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560297/0 - 6 Sept 2022, Laois County Council 22547: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain extensions to dwelling house, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22547/0 - 11 Feb 2022, Laois County Council 2260: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260/0 - 25 Feb 2021, Laois County Council 21115: Conditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. extend duration of planning permission 16/561. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21115/0 - 9 May 2018, Laois County Council 18288: Conditional. Permission. construct a dairy parlour, slurry / washings storage tank and collection yard with associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18288/0 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 Barkmill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barkmill. ## 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 Barkmill, 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 low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/laois/barkmill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/barkmill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/barkmill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barkmill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonaheen: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonaheen.md - Cloncanon Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/cloncanon-upper.md - Clonehurk: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonehurk.md - Clonygowan: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonygowan.md - Esker: https://everytownland.com/laois/esker-100558.md - Omoresforest: https://everytownland.com/laois/omoresforest.md - Skerry: https://everytownland.com/laois/skerry.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/laois/barkmill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/barkmill