Barroe

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barroe, from 48 m² to 166,277 m² (16.63 ha, 41.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 69 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of conversion of roof space to living accommodation, 2 dormer windows on front elevation, gable windows (2 No) and a single storey rear extension to dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21444

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of garage and outbuildings at dwelling house

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21441

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of domestic garage, utility room and home office in a single storey free standing building

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21254

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 Barroe.

Recorded monuments

• SL014-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SW-facing slope of a hill in reclaimed pasture. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but not marked on the 1940 edition. There are no remains visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL015-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on NE end of a broad NE-SW orientated ridge, on a slight NNW-facing slope, in undulating pasture. Natural ground level slopes down sharply from the monument NW-N. Raised circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by a broad flat-topped bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m. At the external base of the bank is a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.3m). The bank is best preserved NNE-E, where it has a broad flat-topped profile, being very denuded by livestock elsewhere. The fosse encloses the site NNE-SE and is absent elsewhere. Modern sheds and a yard area have been built on the line of the absent fosse SE-S. The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. There is a modern break (Wth 2.4m) in the bank at NW with an oval modern hollow (dims 4.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW; D 0.3m) in the interior immediately inside it. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL015-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on level ground in a small field between two houses in overgrown pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 32.5m E-W; 31.5m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.55-8.05m; int. H 1.2m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 4.9-5.5m) and a second bank (Wth 6.45-10.4m; int. H 1.3m). At the external foot of the second bank is a fosse (Wth 4.4m) and an external bank (Wth 5.95m; int. H 0.6m). The perimeter of the site is densely overgrown and inaccessible W-NNW. From SWSW the second bank thickens with the top extending to 8m in width compared to 3.8m elsewhere. From NNW-S the external bank is absent. A break (Wth 1.4m) in the internal bank at E, with a slight causeway across the fosse and a corresponding break in the second bank, marks the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barroe, 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_1131 (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 Barroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Barroe · An Barr Rua

Area

795,551 m² (79.56 ha, 196.58 acres)

Civil parish

Calry, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Calry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,792 people lived in 654 households in the Calry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytivnan, Doonally, Doonally, Farranacardy, Faughts, Hazelwood Demesne, Rathbraghan, Shannon Oughter

Placenames

Barroe 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.