Barranaghs

387 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barranaghs, from 27 m² to 227,247 m² (22.72 ha, 56.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Barranaghs 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.

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  this Development Will Consist of Retention Planning Permission Domestic Storage Shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660425

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  Attic Extension & Garage to Dining Room to Existing Dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560233

• 20 Mar 2025Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560081

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  AN EXISTING SLATTED TANK, THEREAFTER PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20622

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20597

• 17 Feb 2020Refused

  construct up to 8 no. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 185 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas; 1 no. on-site electrical substation; 1 no. temporary construction compound; all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site electrical substation; provision of new site access tracks and upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage; erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of up to 110m in heights; works to facilitate the delivery of turbines adjacent to the N80 within the townlands of Dernacart and Forest Upper to include the laying of temporary surfacing; tree felling; and all associated site development works, ancillary works and equipment. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years and an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2078

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  GARAGE & STORE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19158

• 20 Mar 2019N/a

  GARAGE & STORE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19119

• 7 Mar 2019N/a

  GARAGE & STORE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 1999

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• OF033-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Nothing to be seen except natural humps and hollows. Nothing of archaeological interest in area marked on 6-inch ordnance survey maps. Potential site identified from aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 408/9; N 207/8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barranaghs.

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 moderately low, 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_2141 (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.

No address of the register names Barranaghs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Barranaghs · Barr Eanach

Area

3,833,142 m² (383.31 ha, 947.19 acres)

Civil parish

Clonyhurk, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Hammerlane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hammerlane electoral division: 590 people in 205 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonterry (Co. Laois), Clonyhurk, Cooltycanon, Forest Lower (Co. Laois), Garryhinch, Garrymore (Co. Laois), Magheranaskeagh, Strahard (Co. Laois), Tinnakill (Co. Laois)

Placenames

Barranaghs 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.