Barrs West

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrs West, from 93 m² to 250,999 m² (25.1 ha, 62.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  • Construction & completion of dwelling as-built which replaces the original cottage demolished as part of previous site works approved under PL22/217 • Retention & completion of newly constructed extension as-built which differs to that previously granted under PL22/217 • The retention of a reinforced retaining wall & raft foundation as constructed for the replacement house & new extension & • Planning Permission for the construction of a replacement & upgraded on-site WWTS with above ground tertiary treatment area & • Reconnection to existing site services • All associated ancillary site development works deemed necessary.

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660207

• 18 Oct 2022Conditional

  demolish the existing porch, chimneys and rear extension to the existing domestic dwelling. 2. To demolish the existing outbuilding to the West of the existing domestic dwelling. 3. To construct a single storey extension to the West & North of the existing domestic dwelling. 4. To upgrade the existing Waste Water Trestment System to current EPA Code Of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22217

• 25 Jan 2019Refused

  a forest bell mouth entrance onto a public road including all other associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1916

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Dough/Thur Mountains NHA 002384

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barrs West.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, gates/railings/walls, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cut sandstone entrance gates with flanking walls and piers, erected in 1852, incorporating a bellcote. Date plaque to wall. Decorative urns to gate piers and cut stone cross to bellcote. Pointed-segmental arch entrance with decorative wrought-iron gates.

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1832, with four-bay nave, single-bay chancel and extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with stone crosses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins and dressings. Pointed-arched window openings with tooled chamfered surrounds and replacement stained glass windows. Triple lancets in east gable. Pointed-arched door opening with tooled chamfered surround in west gable. Prayer plaque in west gable. Cemetery adjacent to church. Cut stone entrance gates to south of church.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Barrs West.

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 Barrs West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Barrs West · Na Barraí Thiar

Area

1,614,730 m² (161.47 ha, 399.01 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Munakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Munakill electoral division: 186 people in 65 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrs East, Cornacloy, Moneenageer, Mullaun, Tawnylust Barr Upper

Placenames

Barrs West 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.