Barnaboy
Barnaboy is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyboy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Bhearna Bhuí.
- Area
- 160.9 ha
- 398 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 13,968 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnaboy, from 104 m² to 240,861 m² (24.09 ha, 59.52 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barnaboy 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
27 Mar 2026Conditional
to extend and alter existing house and permission to fit secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works. This is a protected structure no. 41-21
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660162
29 May 2025Refused
extend and alter existing house and permission to fit secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works. This is a protected structure no. 41-21
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560206
23 Jun 2020Conditional
DEMOLISHING EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20236
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barnaboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnaboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnaboy.
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 Barnaboy, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1762 (ZIP).
- 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 Barnaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Barnaboy · An Bhearna Bhuí
- Area
- 1,608,992 m² (160.9 ha, 397.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyboy
- Electoral division
- Broughal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 121 people lived in 47 households in the Broughal electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincloghan, Broughal, Kilnagall, Lea Beg
- Placenames
- Barnaboy 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.