Barnan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilclonfert, barony of Philipstown Lower, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Bearnán
- Area
- 187.3 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 18,980 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnan, from 214 m² to 233,453 m² (23.35 ha, 57.69 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barnan 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
5 Mar 2025Conditional
proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560061
24 Feb 2025N/a
construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560044
25 Jan 2022Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2217
21 Sept 2020Conditional
A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND FARM ACCESS ROAD
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20446
10 Sept 2020N/a
A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND FARM ACCESS ROAD
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20424
18 Feb 2019Conditional
AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention · Offaly County Council, 1957
14 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO ERECT NEW SITE BOUNDARIES, TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18504
29 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO ERECT NEW SITE BOUNDARIES, TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD TOGETHER WITH PERMISSION TO CLOSE EXISTING ACCESS GATE AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17472
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: Raheenmore Bog SAC 000582
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Raheenmore Bog 000582
Recorded monuments
- OF010-489 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m) intersected at W by field boundary running N-S is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed O'Donovan Date of upload: 05 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnan.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2116 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Barnan · An Bearnán
- Area
- 1,872,861 m² (187.29 ha, 462.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilclonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Philipstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilclonfert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilclonfert electoral division: 448 people in 137 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonearl Demesne, Clyduff, Fortyacres, Kilduff, Oldcroghan, Puttaghan
- Placenames
- Barnan 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.