Barbersfort

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barbersfort, from 1,339 m² to 410,254 m² (41.03 ha, 101.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Barbersfort 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.

• 4 Mar 2024N/a

  for the development consisting of a new 38kV overhead line (OHL) from existing Glenamaddy 38kV station to existing cable ducts approximately 720 metres East of the existing Cloon 110kV station at Cloonascragh. The proposed development involves the construction of 179no. poles (up to 18m in height), 2no. end masts (up to 16.2m in height) and stringing with overhead lines, over a distance of approximately 26.8km, and all associated works including any temporary works required. The project was previously granted under pl. ref. no. 10779 and an extension of this permission was granted under pl. ref. no. 15861. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies the application. OSI 2,500 series; 2882, 2883, 2815, 2816, 2748, 2679, 2609, 2610, 2680, 2543, 2544, 2611

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460230

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA044-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Enclosing a low hillock in undulating farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1927) as subcircular enclosure (E-W c. 40m). The monument has since been cut in half by a field wall running E-W, and no visible surface trace survives to N of it. To S, all that survives is a poorly preserved scarp from E to SE, and a bank of earth and stone from SE to SSW. An old field bank abuts the monument at E. A subrectangular depression (E-W; L 12m, Wth 6m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone may be the remains of a house site (GA044-008001-). A ringfort (GA044-013----) lies 100m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 14 September 2015

• GA044-008001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the N half of a possible cashel (GA044-008001-). A subrectangular depression (E-W; L 12m, Wth 6m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone may be the remains of a house site. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 September 2015

• GA044-009 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA044-011 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a gravel pit defined by a hollow. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 October 2014

• GA044-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hillock c. 100m SE of a possible cashel (GA044-008----). Oval cashel (E-W 27.5m, N-S 23.6m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall with traces of wall-facing at S and NW. A gap (Wth 2.3m) at W may be original. Abutting the monument at SE is a rectangular area (L 7.8m, Wth 5.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, probably associated. Within NE quadrant of interior is an oval hollow (N-S; L 7.6m, Wth 3.6m) defined by a low bank at W, possibly the remains a house (GA044-013001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 14 September 2015

• GA044-013001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of the interior of a cashel (GA044-013----). An oval hollow (N-S; L 7.6m, Wth 3.6m) defined by a low bank at W is possibly the remains of a house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 14 September 2015

Architectural heritage

• Barbersfort House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Yard of two-storey outbuildings, built c.1830, associated with Barbersfort House. Original house burnt early 1920s and replaced 1927. One six-bay block has slate roof, pitched at one end and hipped at the other, with stone chimneystacks and with eaves course. Rendered rubble limestone walls with square-headed window and door openings with battened timber fixings, and segmental-headed vehicular entrance. Single-storey outbuilding attached at right angles and having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed doorways with timber battened doors. Second two-storey block is five-bay, with similar details and openings, though with pitched roof, and with ruinous single-storey outbuilding attached to one end. Outbuildings have pitched and hipped slate roofs and rendered coursed rubble limestone walls. Walled garden entered through round limestone archway having double-leaf wrought-iron gate. Later house is three-bay two-storey, with later gabled porch to front, and addition to rear, hipped slate roof with pair of chimneystacks, rendered and painted walls, and square-headed replacement windows.

• Barbersfort House, building misc, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Barbersfort House, erected c.1860, comprising screen of cast-iron, at centre of which is double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate supported on square-plan reeded cast-iron piers with balls topped with spike finials, fronted by carved limestone spherical wheel guards. Vehicular gate flanked by pedestrian gates similarly supported, in turn flanked by S-profile carved limestone plinth walls supporting S-plan railings and piers similar to elsewhere, and flanked in turn again by S-plan rusticated limestone flank walls with plinths and copings terminating in rectangular-profile piers of same height as walls.

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

At the centre of the townland of Barbersfort, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barbersfort.

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.

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

Name

Barbersfort · Lios an Bhearrthóra

Area

1,651,987 m² (165.2 ha, 408.21 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killererin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

770 people lived in 271 households in the Killererin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardawarry, Cahergal, Clogherboy, Coolrevagh, Garraun, Garraun Beg, Graddoge, Pollbaun

Placenames

Barbersfort 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.