Barracashlaun

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barracashlaun, from 887 m² to 397,495 m² (39.75 ha, 98.22 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 Barracashlaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Barracashlaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Barracashlaun.

Recorded monuments

• LE007-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only as an arc of hachures N-E on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located towards the top of a rise on the N side of and at the E end of Glencar valley. This is a grass-covered D-shaped enclosure (dims 25m N-S; 15m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-038 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Marked only on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Megalith’ in gothic lettering, and located within a hollow on a S-facing slope at the N side of the E end of Glencar valley. This is an overgrown cairn (dims 35m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE; H 1.5m) with the remains of a three-chambered gallery (L 9m) and an open court at NE. There is some evidence of a second court and a two-chambered gallery (L 4m) at the SW end. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 55-7). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE007-089 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Located at the S edge of a plateau overlooking Glencar valley to the W. This is a circular, grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 9.4m E-W; 8.2m N-S: diam. of top 5.5m E-W; 5.8m N-S; H 1-1.4m) with an old quarry at the summit that is overgrown with rushes (diam. 3m N-S; 2.7m E-W; D 0.2-0.4m). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barracashlaun, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barracashlaun.

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 Barracashlaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Barracashlaun · Barr an Chaisleáin

Area

1,146,044 m² (114.6 ha, 283.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glenade, the unit of the census

Census 2022

156 people lived in 62 households in the Glenade electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Fenagh, Fivepoundland, Glebe, Gortinar, Killymeehin, Largantemple, Nure, Shancurragh Barr Of

Placenames

Barracashlaun 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.