Barrack South
Barrack South is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Bheairic Theas.
- Area
- 72 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 7,985 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrack South, from 76 m² to 47,636 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barrack South 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Sept 2026N/a
The development will consist of planning permission for: 1. the removal of existing temporary office accommodation and temporary outbuilding structures; 2. the construction of a two-storey extension to the south-eastern corner of the existing main accommodation building (Building A), containing sanitary facilities at ground-floor level and staff facilities at first-floor level, with a total gross floor area of approximately 195 m²; 3. the construction of a two-storey standalone building (Building B), containing changing facilities, first-aid rooms, a merchandise shop, lockers and circulation areas at ground-floor level, with administration and office facilities, teaching and training rooms and ancillary support accommodation at first-floor level, with a total gross floor area of approximately 880 m²; 4. the construction of a maintenance and storage building (Building C), with a total gross floor area of approximately 170 m²; and 5. site development works including modifications to external circulation routes, additional car-parking provision, associated site services, landscaping and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660740
3 May 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: minor renovation works to replace the existing profiled steel roof sheeting with new profiled stell roof sheeting. The proposed new roof sheeting will match the existing roof sheeting in specification, profile and colour
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24139
8 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SOLID FLOOR STORAGE SHED FACILITY TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22458
30 Mar 2022N/a
CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE FOR HABITABLE USE, NEW EXTERNAL DOOR TO REAR ELEVATION OF DWELLING, PROVISION OF REVISED FRONT FACING ROOF WINDOW AND CONSTRUCTION OF 45.4 SQM DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22252
3 Feb 2022N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING CAR PARK SERVING THE DISUSED CURRACH LOUNGE BAR TO AN OVERNIGHT MOTOR HOME PARKING FACILITY TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, SIGNAGE, AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2254
6 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT INCLUDING A PERCOLATION/TERTIARY AREA AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PERMISSION
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21952
22 Jul 2021N/a
SECTION 5 DECLARATION:USE OF EXISTING CAR PARK SERVING THE DISUSED CURRACH LOUNGE BAR AS AN OVERNIGHT MOTOR HOME PARKING FACILITY
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21862
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470
Recorded monuments
- MA016-019 Midden
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barrack South.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Barrack South, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barrack South.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barrack South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Barrack South · An Bheairic Theas
- Area
- 720,071 m² (72.01 ha, 177.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- An Geata Mór Theas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 881 people lived in 329 households in the An Geata M�r Theas electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Barrack South 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.