Barrowhouse

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrowhouse, from 207 m² to 584,358 m² (58.44 ha, 144.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Barrowhouse 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.

• 22 Sept 2026N/a

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a new wastewater treatment system, new bored well, a new splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660666

• 21 Jul 2026Conditional

  retain an existing wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660500

• 29 Jun 2026Conditional

  a)retain existing detached garage (42 sq.m) and porch to house, including minor revisions to previously approved elevations. b) Permission for: Construction of a 37 sq.m extension to the existing detached garage to provide a games room and ground-floor bedroom, together with a connecting link to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660411

• 24 Jun 2026N/a

  a) Retain permission for: existing detached garage (42 sq.m) and porch to house, including minor revisions to previously approved elevations. b) Permission for: Construction of a 37 sq.m extension to the existing detached garage to provide a games room and ground-floor bedroom, together with a connecting link to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660403

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  construct a new single-storey pitched roof rear extension and flat roof link corridors (gross floor area 570 sq.m) and all associated site works, drainage works and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460680

• 30 Oct 2024N/a

  carry out development which consists of: Construction of a new single-storey pitched roof rear extension and flat roof link corridors (gross floor area 570 sq.m) and all associated site works, drainage works and ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460656

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  construct two storey dwelling house with a single storey element, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2325

• 25 Jan 2023N/a

  to construct two storey dwelling house with a single storey element, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2319

• 16 Nov 2022Conditional

  (A) retain the construction of an agricultural shed (permitted by planning ref. 19/344) in its current revised location on the site and (B) permission to complete the construction of the agricultural shed and all ancillary site development work

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22702

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a dairy parlour, slurry/washings storage tank and collection yard with associated site works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19383

• 17 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct an agricultural shed and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19344

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  retain single-storey extensions to front & rear, 2-storey extension to side of dwelling and 2 domestic sheds

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19300

• 27 May 2019N/a

  retain single-storey extensions to front & rear, 2-storey extension to side of dwelling and 2 domestic sheds

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19295

• 4 Sept 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18540

• 19 Jan 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1722

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

• LA020-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of subcircular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, BDH 62-3). No visible surface remains. Aerial photograph (GB91.EJ.26) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure with a curvilinear annexe attached to the western and southern side, both defined by fosses. The levelled enclosure was photographed as a cropmark on 02 August 1991. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 December 2010

• LA020-005 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying area with a pond to the N. Rectangular area (dims c. 53m N-S, 56m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth c. 5.9m, ext. H c. 1.45m, int. H c. 0.7m) and external fosse (Wth c. 3.5m) at W. Slight evidence of bank at S and fosse at N. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA020-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on 1888 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined by a bank and shallow fosse, with a slightly raised interior (OPW file). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA020-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on 1888 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; S portion of possible enclosure (C c. 20m SE-SW). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA020-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BE.16) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 26 November 2009 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 15 August 2010

• LA026-057 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of roughly oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 97m E-W) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barrowhouse, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2401 (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 Barrowhouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Barrowhouse · Teach na Bearú

Area

2,499,811 m² (249.98 ha, 617.72 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Barrowhouse, the unit of the census

Census 2022

518 people lived in 172 households in the Barrowhouse electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardree (Co. Kildare), Ballinree, Grangemellon (Co. Kildare), Kilmorony, Shanganagh Beg, Shanganagh More

Placenames

Barrowhouse 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.