# Barrawinga, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdowney, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Barr an Mhuine. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 778,895 m² (77.89 ha, 192.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 49,700 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdowney, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathdowney.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Errill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 429 people lived in 153 households in the Errill electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% 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/28734 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100177 - Centre: latitude 52.831975, longitude -7.664336 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrawinga, from 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 211,601 m² (21.16 ha, 52.29 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 230028: 211,601 m² (21.16 ha, 52.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230028.md - Parcel 232779: 145,748 m² (14.57 ha, 36.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232779.md - Parcel 238775: 112,342 m² (11.23 ha, 27.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238775.md - Parcel 264779: 88,667 m² (8.87 ha, 21.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264779.md - Parcel 251756: 63,035 m² (6.3 ha, 15.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251756.md - Parcel 233714: 52,688 m² (5.27 ha, 13.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233714.md - Parcel 4557197: 46,713 m² (4.67 ha, 11.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4557197.md - Parcel 263404: 33,867 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263404.md - Parcel 260904: 11,567 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260904.md - Parcel 261647: 6,599 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261647.md - Parcel 229823: 4,835 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229823.md - Parcel 260993: 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260993.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Barrawinga 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 Jul 2026, Laois County Council 2660443: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. carry out extension to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660443/0 - 1 Jul 2026, Laois County Council 2660427: N/a. Permission. extension to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660427/0 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 Barrawinga. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA033-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA033-004----. A circular area (diam. c. 38m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.2m; int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 1.8m) from S-NE, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Remains of an external fosse (Wth c. 3.8m) are visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barrawinga. ## 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 Barrawinga, 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1831, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1831.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/laois/barrawinga.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/barrawinga.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/barrawinga.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barrawinga 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) - Ballagharahin: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballagharahin.md - Clonmeen North: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonmeen-north.md - Graigueavallagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueavallagh.md - Lismurragha: https://everytownland.com/laois/lismurragha.md - Templequain: https://everytownland.com/laois/templequain.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/barrawinga - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/barrawinga