Barnahask
Barnahask is a townland in the civil parish of St. Margarets (Shelmaliere By), barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Barr na hEasca.
Parcel 2837656
- Area
- 435 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 64 m².
- 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
- Barnahask
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to the side and rear of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211761
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3129 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 64.6 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 1,243 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnahask, from 26 m² to 102,556 m² (10.26 ha, 25.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Barnahask 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
26 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR AN INTEGRATED HOLIDAY COMPLEX ON A SITE OF 72.3 HECTARES
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20140517
14 Apr 2025Refused
Permission for retention for the change of use of existing parent flat
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250425
14 Feb 2025Refused
Permission for 1) the demolition of an existing single storey derelict cottage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250177
13 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241400
2 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the change of use of existing parent flat
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241058
27 Jun 2024Refused
Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to existing dwellinghouse
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240754
5 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the restoration and refurbishment of derelict 2 storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240635
26 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached bungalow
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211833
15 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to the side and rear of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211761
23 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission is sought to amend condition number 6 of current planning permission
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211182
24 Mar 2021Refused
Permission to construct a utility extension to existing parent flat
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210430
27 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SHED INCORPORATING THE E
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190721
1 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS POSITIONED ON SITE AND PERMISSI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181052
5 Dec 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, PERMISSION TO UPGRADE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171597
29 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW FOUL DISPOSAL SYSTEM ALL WITH ANCILLARY
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171164
11 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PEMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DETACHED BUNGALOW WITH ALL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171070
22 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DETACHED BUNGALOW AND ALL ASSOCAITED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160404
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 Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnahask.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, 2006. Part chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction, paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered wall to front (east) elevation with limewashed lime rendered buttress; limewashed cement rendered battered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with limewashed concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road with rendered piers to perimeter having rounded capping supporting replacement tubular steel "farm gate".
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered central chimney stack having "Cavetto" stringcourse below capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Remodelled square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to gables to side elevations with concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls; limewashed lime rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with limewashed shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with limewashed red brick Running bond piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting timber double gates.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3129 (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 Barnahask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Barnahask · Barr na hEasca
- Area
- 645,787 m² (64.58 ha, 159.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Margarets (Shelmaliere By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Ardcolm, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 982 people lived in 368 households in the Ardcolm electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghablake, Ballinacoola More, Coolrainey, Curracloe, North East Slob
- Placenames
- Barnahask 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.