Barry

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barry, from 103 m² to 146,764 m² (14.68 ha, 36.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Barry 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.

• 14 Sept 2023Conditional

  change of use of existing residential dwelling (and vacant village store) (GFA 167.8sqm/1806.2sqft) to community education use, consisting of 3no. classrooms and ancillary facilities. The change of use will entail essential repairs, internal alterations, replacement of the existing septic tank with a proprietary treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360130

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  permission for a new dwelling house, garage, treatment unit, percolation area, associated site works and services COVID 19

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2051

• 7 Feb 2019Refused

  proposed construction of a storey & a half type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1931

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  Construction of a 3 bay single slatted shed with creep area, underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1848

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 Barry.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-076 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the highest point of the ridge affording panoramic views over the surrounding countryside; within the NE quadrant of a possible moated site (LF023-076001-). In 1401 the annals record that the ‘castle of Barrcha was being built by Cathal son of Tomás Ó Fearghail, and the castle of Baile Í Mhathan [see LF027-003004-] was begun by Muiris son of Conchobhar ’[Ó Fearghail] (Ó hInnse 1947, 164). The latter family demolished Cathal’s castle two years later in 1403 but he rebuilt it in 1405 (ibid., 171, 175). In 1424 the castle was involved in a feud between two branches of the descendants of Murchad O Fergail when a ‘Great war among the posterity of Murchad O Fergail’ broke out (Ann. Conn., 469). In the same year it was recorded that ‘Barry Castle was demolished by the Justiciar’ (ibid.). In 1518 the ninth earl of Kildare received rent from ‘Kedagh mc Lyshe mic Kyady mic Thomas’ Ó Fearghail, the owner of Barry castle, the sum of £20 13s. 4d. (Mac Niocaill 1992, 274; Farrell 2010, 123). In 1621 Gerald McRory Farrall received a land grant including the ‘castle and lands of Barry and Bunuvalla alias Cartrondrome and a watermill [LF023-126----] … and a fishing wear [LF023-136----] on the river Enny’ (Cal. pat. rolls 19 Jas. 1, 533). On the Down Survey (1655–6) map of Abbeyshrule parish (NLI, MS 719) it is depicted as the ‘Old Castle’ and the mill is located to its S. All that survives of the castle is a grassed-over mound (c. 19m N–S; c. 15m E–W; H 2m) of collapsed rubble, which obscures its original plan. However, some traces of the external stone facing of the N wall survive, where two courses of the wall are still visible. No other architectural features are apparent. Several gaps in the rubble are the result of quarrying. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 October 2012

• LF023-076001 Moated site
  Description

  Associated with an unclassified castle (LF023-076001-). This possible moated site is defined by a subrectangular, flat-topped platform (c. 63m E–W; c. 52m N–S) that is delimited by a scarp (H 1.6–3.1m), with very slight traces of a bank on its E and W sides, and a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.8–6.3m; D 0.3–1.1m). The latter is not visible on the N side where the natural fall or slope of the ridge has been cut into to create a wide flat berm (Wth 3.3m). Running along the outer edge of the fosse on the E side and at the W end of the N side of the berm is a low outer bank of earth and stone (Wth 3–4.4m; H 0.3–0.8m). Midway along the S side a wide causewayed entrance (Wth 4.5m) gives access to the interior. The SE, SW and NW corners of platform are slightly raised. In the NE corner of the interior are the remains of the unclassified castle. At the base of the ridge on the NE angle a hollow depression is the remains of a dried-up well. There appears to be a cart track leading up from this well, forming a terrace-like feature running across the external face of the ridge on the N side. A hollow depression in the NW angle of the platform appears to have been caused by 19th-century quarrying. It is difficult to classify this monument. It is possible that it may be the remains of an Anglo-Norman earth and timber castle that was refortified when the unclassified castle was constructed. The raised corners suggest the possibility that corner towers, associated with a bawn, may have been located at these points and that the enclosure is contemporary with the castle. (ITA Survey 1944; Moore 2007, No. 19) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2nd October 2012

• LF023-107 Enclosure
  Description

  At the base of a SW-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a poorly preserved scarp (H 0.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a narrow, shallow, intervening fosse and an outer bank, both of which have since been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey former corn mill, built c. 1800, now disused. Pitched natural slate roof, now partially collapsed. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings. Timber and iron mill machinery remaining to interior. Former single-storey corn kiln/outbuilding to site, roof absent, random rubble limestone walls with segmental-headed opening having red brick dressings to northeast elevation. Weir to north of site, originally feeding millrace that runs to the east of the mill. Located adjacent to Barry House (13314006), in shared grounds, and to the west of Barry.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and leaded glass overlight. Cut stone blocks to base of doorway. Timber battened shutters visible to window interiors. Single-storey outbuilding to rear having pitched natural slate roof and roughcast rendered walls. Ashlar limestone pier to northeast of site. Set directly on the main street in the village of Barry.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1860, having flat-roofed porch to the centre of the main elevation (southwest) and canted bay window to the northwest elevation at ground floor level. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth with smooth render finish to gable apexes and a rendered eaves course. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door. Timber panelled shutters visible to window interiors. Outbuildings to rear (northeast) having pitched slate roof and random rubble limestone walls. Sited on main T-junction to the southeast end of Barry, having roughly coursed limestone boundary walls with rendered piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to site.

• Water pump, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1900, now disused. Cylindrical cast-iron base on square plate, having fluted shaft with conical cap, fluted spout and slender curving handle. Located in a square recess in random rubble limestone walls (13314013) to the south end of the main street of the village of Barry.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of roughly coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to the south end of the village of Barry, erected c. 1870, having three pairs of entrance piers of roughly coursed limestone construction (on square-plan) with cut limestone capping and having cast-iron double leaf and pedestrian gates. Gates now disused.

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 Barry, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1736 (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 Barry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Barry · 0

Area

977,513 m² (97.75 ha, 241.55 acres)

Civil parish

Taghshinny, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,970 people lived in 1,076 households in the Ballymahon electoral division. 52% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharanagh, Barry, Corrabaun, Doory, Knappoge, Listobit, Tipper, Toome

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.