Barnacragh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacragh, from 64 m² to 68,059 m² (6.81 ha, 16.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Barnacragh 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  of a house and garage on revised site boundaries from those originally granted in 1976, Pl Ref 21703. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 114 (H), 23.66 sqm(G)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560955

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling , effluent treatment system and percolation area and associated works

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 2560261

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  for a new dwelling, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461516

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 the townland of Barnacragh.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (ENE-WSW 30m, NNW-SSE 28m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. Traces of a possible external fosse are visible from NW to NNW. A gap (Wth 4m) at E may be original. 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: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barnacragh, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1279 (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.

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

Name

Barnacragh · Bearna Chreach

Area

233,329 m² (23.33 ha, 57.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcloony, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinasloe Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh, Liscappul, Loughbown, Urraghry

Placenames

Barnacragh 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.