Barney

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barney, from 933 m² to 311,824 m² (31.18 ha, 77.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Barney 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.

• 5 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a proposed storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460196

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  proposed retention, completion and alteration to existing partially constructed single storey dwelling with detached garage which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 05/680 together with the proposed completion of previously permitted entrance and boundary fence/wall together with the installation of a suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21369

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  2 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and conversion of attached single storey outbuilding as accommodation to south west, relocation of farm access from main road to north east and ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17177

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barney.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 3.5-4m; H 0.2-0.4m) that has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from ESE-S-N. The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the presence of a wide, shallow, external fosse. The rath is densely overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a bank and fosse. While the N half of the monument was incorported into two field boundaries, running along the NW and NE quadrants, some of the bank was evident. The fosse had been deepened as part of a field drain. The S half had been almost completely levelled and no visible surface trace now survives. An enclosure (LF09-088001-) lies immediately to the N of the field boundary along the NW quadrant. It relationship with the rath is unclear; it may be an annexe or later feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 10 February 2012

• LF019-088001 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately to the NW of a rath (LF019-088----). A semicircular enclosure (c. 33m NE-SW; c. 23m NW-SE) defined by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone. A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicates that there was formerly a shallow external fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. The relationship between the rath and the enclosure is unclear; the latter may be an annexe or later feature. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 February 2012

• LF019-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in moderately drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument was levelled in the 1940s or 1950s (local information). However, a report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that the outline of a bank with an external fosse could still be traced enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 30m). It is visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

• LF019-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the S end of a low N-S ridge in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the interior at W is an area of outcropping rock. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath has been partially levelled due to road-widening and land reclamation. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1840, having projecting porch to the front elevation (southeast), single-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest) and three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the southwest elevation. Currently disused. Steeply pitched hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered red brick chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots. Stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to slate roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Tooled dressed limestone construction to porch, recently repointed. Square-headed window openings with painted cut stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, having six-over-three panes to first floor, sited close to the eaves, and six-over-six panes to ground floor. Rendered surrounds to ground floor window openings having prominent keystone feature; wrought-iron security bars to ground floor window openings. Square-headed door opening to porch with replacement door. Timber window shutters visible to the interior. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Ardagh and adjacent to rural road junction with yards to front (southeast) and rear (northeast). Collection of single-storey outbuildings to the southeast, northwest, northeast and west of house. Hipped and pitched natural slate roofs, raised rendered verges to pitched roofs. Rendered chimneystacks to a number of outbuildings. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed squared limestone masonry construction, some having roughcast render over. Flush roughly dressed limestone quoins to corners of a number of buildings. Square-headed window and door opening with timber fittings (both new and early fittings). Outbuilding to the northeast of house, c. 1800, partially built with mud-walled construction over projecting rubble stone footings (to northeast). Rendered boundary walls to site. Wrought-iron flat bar vehicle and pedestrian gates to site, including a number with cut stone gate posts (serving yard to northeast). Cast-iron water pump to yard to west.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1895, having single-bay two-storey block to the rear (northwest) at the west corner having pitched natural slate roof. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central Square-headed door opening with cut limestone step, timber half-glazed door and overlight. Set back from road in mature grounds to the southeast of Ardagh. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings (c. 1820 and c. 1870) arranged around a courtyard to the rear (north/northwest) having pitched corrugated-metal and pitched natural slate roofs, rubble stone construction with roughcast render finish over, and having square-headed openings with timber fittings. Red brick chimneystack to outbuilding to the northwest; red brick voussoirs to door openings of outbuildings to north. Rubble limestone walls to rear of house (north), having wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Wrought-iron flat bar field gates to yard to rear.

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

At the centre of the townland of Barney, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Barney.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Barney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Barney · An Bhearna

Area

1,459,707 m² (145.97 ha, 360.7 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 265 households in the Ardagh East electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinreaghan, Ballywalter, Coolcaw, Cross, Lenaboy, Meeltanagh

Placenames

Barney 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.