Barnacoyle Big
Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Bearna Choill Mhór
Parcel 1285282
- Area
- 219,700 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it, 1,029 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Barnacoyle Big
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a new farm entrance and fence onto the R761, access road and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560286
2 Mar 2021N/a
construction of a new 230 square metre farm building and hard standing, for agricultural use as a sheep shed, together with all necessary ancillary works, drainage and fencing
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21214
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WI019-050 Fulacht fia
Description
01E0435 A small portion of a fulacht fiadh was excavated in the townland of Kilmartin, Co. Wicklow, in May 2001. The site was detected during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook-Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. The Kilmartin site is in a low sheltered valley where a small unnamed stream runs north-west/south-east. In the late 20th century the stream was placed into an underground pipe at this point. The ground climbs steeply on the south-western side, while to the north-west it rises sharply, crossing the townland boundary into Barnacoyle Big. The site, prior to topsoil-stripping, presented itself as a low-lying uncultivated area of poorly drained land surrounded by fields in pasture or under crops. The initial topsoil-stripping revealed spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal. An area measuring 15.5m east-west by 7m was hand-cleaned. This revealed a series of cut features with associated fills and the remnants of burnt mound material. A charcoal and heat-shattered stone area was apparent in the eastern side of the area cleaned. This subrectangular area represented a trough with a timber-lined base. Two clusters of post-holes were detected in the north-western and south-western corners of the trough. This timber-lined trough comprised a shallow rectangular cut with straight sides and a flat base. It measured 2.19m east-west by 0.94m, with a depth of 0.34m. There were two substantial waterlogged oak planks at the base of the cut. The northernmost oak plank measured 1.78m by 0.2m (max.) by 0.08-0.12m thick. The width of the plank tapered towards each end. No bark was present. The southernmost plank was also a split oak plank, and measured 2.08m by 0.34m (max.) by 0.08-0.12m thick. No tool-marks were visible on either of the planks. The fill of the trough was a moderately compact black silty clay with frequent inclusions of charcoal, fire-cracked limestone, sandstone and granite fragments. This fill extended throughout the cut and sealed the oak planks. The eastern part of the trough was cut by a modern pipe drain. Two distinct clusters of stake-holes were present at the north-western and south-western corners of the trough cut. Both clusters sat in shallow depressions, which opened into the corners of the trough. It is significant that both clusters contained eight posts. This suggests that the clusters may be contemporary and represent pairs of corner posts. An area of fire-reddened or oxidised clay was revealed immediately east of the stake-hole clusters. A large pit was uncovered to the west of the trough with the timber base. This pit, which measured 3.3m east-west by 1.8m by 0.8m deep, contained some six fills of silty clays with occasional lenses of heat-shattered stone. Several fragments of wood were recovered from the fills of the pit. Examination of these fragments has suggested that they represent modern root activity. Spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal were immediately visible when initial stripping took place. This material survived in the south-western reaches of the area cleaned and in the north. The south-western portion of the mound remnant comprised an irregular-shaped spread of heat-shattered stone and charcoal-stained soil which measured 1.5m east-west by 3.6m, with a maximum thickness of 0.06-0.1m. In this area it was found to overlie natural stratigraphy. The shape of the southern spread appears to be the result of post-depositional processes, in particular repeated land improvement. A northern spread of burnt mound material was also noted after topsoil-stripping. This spread measured some 4.9m east-west by 4.4m, with a maximum depth of 0.1m as exposed. This spread overlay natural boulder clay stratigraphy in places. However, the bed of the stream, which had formerly flowed in this area prior to being inserted into a piped channel, remained as a series of wet gravel deposits. This latter deposit consisted of a grey waterlogged series of sands and gravels. A small cluster of four stake-holes, which formed an approximate east-west alignment, was detected in the south of the area examined. Diameters of 0.08-0.12m and depths of 0.07-0.13m were recorded for these (Bennett 2003, 423-4). Date of upload: 30 December 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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_3386 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 89.6 ha
- 221 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,483 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacoyle Big, from 40 m² to 219,700 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barnacoyle Big 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
14 Jul 2026Refused
mobile home for her personal use, effluent treatment unit and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660629
18 Jun 2026N/a
mobile home for personal use, effluent treatment unit and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660552
16 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a new farm entrance and fence onto the R761, access road and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560286
12 Sept 2022Refused
new roadside entrance to access farm along with all associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22985
6 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a new 230 square metre farm building and hard standing, for agricultural use as a sheep shed, together with all necessary ancillary works, drainage and fencing
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21373
2 Mar 2021N/a
construction of a new 230 square metre farm building and hard standing, for agricultural use as a sheep shed, together with all necessary ancillary works, drainage and fencing
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21214
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 Barnacoyle Big.
Recorded monuments
- WI019-046 Fulacht fia
Description
The RMP (1995) map for Co. Wicklow has an x marked at this location and is annotated 'Fulacht fiadh' suggesting that such a monument is located where the X is marked on the map. The site of the fulacht fiadh has not been visited. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 November 2012
- WI019-047 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
A small prehistoric pit, located on the south-west flank of a low hill, in tillage, was archaeologically excavated (Licence No. 01E0434). The pit measured 2.1m north-south by 0.9-1.07m, with a depth of 0.5m. Two possible post-holes were present at the northern end. The cut was generally U-shaped in profile, with straight sides on the north, south, south-west, west and north-west, but with more gradually sloping sides on the north-east, east and south-east. The lower fill of the pit cut consisted of a moderately compact brown, yellow-mottled, clay sand which contained occasional fragments of charcoal and small stones. This fill was present throughout the cut and measured 2.1m north-south by 1.07m, with a depth of approximately 0.05m. At the sides it blended into the natural subsoil. The upper fill of the cut produced 34 sherds of decorated prehistoric pottery. This latter fill was a moderately compact dark brown clay sand with occasional inclusions of small stones and charcoal fragments, 0.28-0.14m deep. Analysis of the pottery by Anna Brindley suggested that a single vessel was represented by the sherds, and that it is likely to date from the early Bronze Age. Elements of the decoration point to the Vase tradition, but the form of the rim and cordons points to the Cordoned Urn tradition (Bennett 2003, 412). Date of upload: 29 September 2012
- WI019-048 Fulacht fia
Description
Part of a fulacht fiadh was archaeologically excavated (Licence No. 01E0822). The site had been detected as a spread of burnt materialduring the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook-Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. A small area, which measured approximately 6.5m north-south by 6m, was opened for excavation by hand. This corresponded with the western area of the pipeline driving track at the point where it met an east-west-aligned third-class road which links the N11 and the R761 regional road. A small stream flows east-west parallel to the road. The present channel of the stream appears to be modern. The base mapping used by BGE for the pipeline construction project indicates a small unnamed stream in this location. A loop can clearly be seen to the west of the Barnacoyle Big II site. Conversation with the landowner revealed that the stream was only placed into the current channel during the 1960s. The archaeological features were revealed because a larger area of topsoil was stripped owing to the need for storage and parking at a road crossing. The earliest activity revealed by excavation related to the bed of the since-diverted stream. Some five deposits of riverine origin were revealed in the former streambed. These sat in a depression in the northern part of the excavated area. The lowermost deposit encountered consisted of a waterlogged layer of friable grey sand with charcoal flecking. This was present throughout the area of the streambed examined, measuring approximately 6m east-west by 2.1-1.8m. The depth of this deposit was unknown as it was only partly excavated. A sherd of Bronze Age coarse ware was recovered from the portion of the deposit which was removed. A series of sterile river gravels sealed this deposit. A series of large water-worn limestone boulders were also present in the centre of the former streambed. The feature which initially attracted attention was a spread of heat-shattered stone and charcoal sitting at the point where the river gravels met natural boulder clay. This layer consisted of a moderately compact black clay and stone deposit with inclusions of heat-shattered limestone and sandstone fragments ranging in size from 40mm to 100mm. Inclusions of charcoal were also present in the spread; a particular concentration was noted in the eastern extremity of the part exposed. This deposit measured approximately 6.06m east-west by 1.6-0.96m as exposed, with a depth of 0.1-0.26m. No trough was encountered during the excavations. It is likely that the spread of heat-shattered stone and charcoal is representative of wider activity along the bank of the former stream (Bennett 2003, 412). Date of upload: 29 Septmber 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnacoyle Big.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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_3386 (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 Barnacoyle Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Barnacoyle Big · Bearna Choill Mhór
- Area
- 896,331 m² (89.63 ha, 221.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle Lower electoral division: 2,472 people in 797 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnacoyle Little, Castlegrange, Grange North, Grange South, Killoughter, Kilmartin, Tiglin
- Placenames
- Barnacoyle Big 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.