Barroe Upper

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barroe Upper, from 285 m² to 186,988 m² (18.7 ha, 46.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Barroe Upper 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.

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at Barroe upper, Ballindoon, Co. Sligo.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660128

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-217 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope. A raised circular area (int. diam. 17.5m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m). There is a possible entrance at NE. A stone field boundary (on a NE-SW axis) divides the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-222 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in slope overlooking Lough Arrow to W. A raised subcircular area (int. diam. 10m x 11.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-223 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in slope overlooking Lough Arrow to W. A circular area (int. diam. 25.5m) enclosed by a stone wall (T 1.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m) with remains of inner and outer stone facing. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-224 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On upland pasture and commanding a view westwards across Lough Arrow to the Bricklieve Mountains. A gallery (L 6m; Wth 1.9m at the front) is represented by three sidestones at its front or WSW end, one on the N side and two on the S side, and by its backstone. Just 0.7m E of the two stones at the S side there is a set stone at right angles to the line of the gallery side which may have functioned as a buttress-stone though it is unusually large for that purpose. About 1m outside the northern sidestone there is an outer-wall stone and 1.3m to the E of it another. Between these and the line of the gallery side there are two more set stones. These seem to represent an intermediate line of walling between the gallery side and the outer-wall. There are a number of prostrate stones at the site. One of these adjoins the N end of the backstone and may be a fallen sidestone. Another at the NW corner of the structure might be a fallen facade-stone. A poorly preserved low mound at the site scarcely extends beyond the confines of the structure. Some uncertainty has been expressed about the classification of this tomb (Ó Nualláin 1989, 64-5, no. 104) but the available indications are that it is a wedge-tomb. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL034-246 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Lime Kiln'. Not marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In pasture, built into a natural slope. This is a late 19th-/early 20th-century rectangular stone structure (L 5m; Wth 4m; H 4m) with a splayed recess (Wth 1.8m; H 1.55m; D 1.4m). The funnel (diam. 2.7m) is infilled and the top is visible. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Barroe Upper · An Barr Rua Uachtarach

Area

1,151,227 m² (115.12 ha, 284.47 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindoon, Barroe Lower, Barroe North, Carrickglass, Carrigeenblike

Placenames

Barroe Upper 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.