Barnacullen

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacullen, from 677 m² to 215,736 m² (21.57 ha, 53.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Barnacullen 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.

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain as constructed a dwelling house, septic tank, domestic garage and entrances along with all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560436

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of: Retention of alterations to the as constructed dwelling-house, which differ to those previously granted under PD references: PD 03116 & PD 03541. Alterations include, i) the removal of dormer windows to the front elevation & the installation of roof-lights in lieu of same; ii) the alteration to the height to the dwelling-house. Retention of alterations to the as constructed garage, comprising of revised elevations, to those granted previously under planning register reference’s: PD 03116 & PD 03541. Retention of alterations to the ‘site layout plan’ boundary, which differs to that previously granted under planning register reference’s: PD 03116 & PD 03541, at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460482

• 2 Jul 2024N/a

  Retention Permission for the removal of dormer windows on front roof elevation which was granted under planning register reference: PD/03/116 & PD/03/541 and their replacement with roof lights which follows the contour of the roof. Retention Permission of as constructed garage with revised elevations to that which was granted under Planning Register Reference: PD/03/116 & PD/03/541 at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24103

• 4 Apr 2024N/a

  Retention permission for the removal of dormer windows on front roof elevation which was granted under planning register reference: PD03116 and their replacement with roof lights which follow the contour of the roof, retention of as constructed garage with revised elevations to that which was granted under planning register reference: PD03116 at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2451

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 Barnacullen.

Recorded monuments

• RO045-021 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  On a slight NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered are (int. diam. 2.8m WNW-ESE) defined by a broad earthen bank (Wth 5.2-5.4m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m) with some scrub. An outer fosse was filled in within living memory, but there are slight traces of it at S (ext. diam. 13.5m WNW-ESE; 13.4m NNE-SSW). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a slight NE-facing slope. There are slight traces of a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 37m NNW-SSE; c. 35m ENE-WSW) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m). Rath (RO045-023----) is c. 100m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a slight NE-facing slope. Described as a subcircular area (dims 38m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO045-022----) is c. 100m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.3m NNE-SSW; 31.8m WNW-ESE) with some scrub defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-4m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H c. 1m) and slight traces of an outer fosse (at WNW: Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 2.8m; D c. 0.1m), but the interior and perimeter are partly obscured by spoil. Entrance at ENE, SSW and NNW are probably modern. Rath (RO045-019----) is c. 200m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 56.3m WNW-ESE; 47.2m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.9m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 1.2-1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; Wth of base 1.5-2.7m; ext. D 0.8-1.6m) from an outer bank (Wth 2-4m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m). The straight side, which is original, is at W and the entrance (Wth 1.9m) and causeway (Wth 4.7m) are at SE, but the outer bank had been incorporated into a field bank NE-S-SW (max. ext. diam. 71.6m WNW-ESE). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low-lying level landscape. Described as a circular area (diam. 39.5m N-S; 38.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank, with an outer fosse S-SW (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area with lazy beds (dims 38m E-W; 33.7m N-S) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.7m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.7-2.1m) separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 3.3m; ext. D 0.6m) which is most pronounced at S (Wth of top 8.3m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 2.1m), from an outer bank (at N: Wth 3m; ext. H 0.65m) N-ESE which is replaced by a field wall SSE-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.6m) through the inner bank and slight traces of a causeway at NE. Rath (RO045-037----) is c. 95m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barnacullen, 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

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

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 Barnacullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Barnacullen

Area

1,616,172 m² (161.62 ha, 399.36 acres)

Civil parish

Rahara, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Scregg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 201 households in the Scregg electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Curraghnaveen, Highbog, Kellybrook, Scregg, Turlagh

Placenames

Barnacullen 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.