Barnaderg
Barnaderg is a townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Bhearna Dhearg.
Parcel 742913
- Area
- 115,063 m² (11.51 ha, 28.43 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 238 m².
- Zoning
- G3 GB – green belt (Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030) The objective
- Townland
- Barnaderg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- SL005-039 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on level ground in gently undulating pasture. This holy well is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but is shown on the 1912 edition, where it is named ‘St Patrick’s Well’. The well consists of a subrectangular pit (2m NW−SE; 0.85m NE-SW) dug to a depth of 1.4m below surface ground level. The vertical sides of the pit are faced with drystone walling. A low wall (Wth 0.45m; H 0.2-0.3m) of mortared limestone blocks rises proud of the well pit on the NE, SE and SW sides; this wall is now partly collapsed on the S and W sides. There is a lintelled rectangular niche (Wth 0.3m; H 0.35m; D 0.35m) in the internal face on the NE side. The well is open on the NW side; there may have been steps here to aid access to the water, but wall collapse/loose rubble now makes this unclear. Rubble also fills the base of the well, where water is still evident. Traditional devotions which were practiced at the well are recorded in the National Folklore Schools Collection (1937-39): volume 0155, p. 001 (https://www.duchas.ie/): "It is said that this well was blessed by St. Patrick when he was passing from Connacht into Ulster. Around the well is a stone wall. In this wall are round holes - fourteen in number; these are called the Stations. Every year on St. Patrick's Day people from the adjoining townlands visit Tobar Phádruig. They make the Stations of the Cross round the well: each hole being used as a station. At the entrance to the well they recite the Rosary or some other prayers. Those who visit the well usually bring with them some flowers, or holy pictures or medals or old crosses: these they leave at the well…It is said that when St. Patrick was blessing this well, he left the mark of his thumb on a stone which is pointed out to the present day. This stone which is round with a flat top and bearing a mark resembling the imprint of a human thumb is placed in the wall at the entrance to the well. People visit the well at other times of the year as well as on St. Patrick's Day for cures for animals…". There is a rath (SL005-040----) and children’s burial ground (SL005-040001-) 35m to S. Attached images: SL005-039----_01.JPG Holy well viewed from NW, with rath (SL005-040001-) in the background SL005-039----_02.JPG Holy well viewed from NW Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 October 2020
- SL005-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located on a terrace on the E bank of the Grange River, overlooking a bend in the river. There is a gently drop from the terrace for c. 10m to the river bank. The terrace continues beyond the rath to NW where it takes the form of a low linear spine of raise ground. The ground rises steeply on the opposite river bank. To E, the ground rises gently to a higher terrace and then levels out. The Dartry Mountains loom in the background to E-SE, with the dramatic profile of Ben Bulben prominent to S. Circular earthen platform defined on the S arc by a stony bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.5m, at S), reduced on the N arc to a scarp (H 1m; Wth slope 3m, at N). The bank has a substantial external slope and a rather slumped internal rim; it is topped by a skim of sod-covered stones. At W the slope of the bank merges with the break of slope at terrace edge. Hawthorn trees grow on the S arc. The interior is grass-covered; low stones break the surface in parts. The NE quadrant is at a slightly lower level to the rest of the platform. An ENE-WSW drystone field wall (Wth 0.9m; H 0.7m) crosses the rath to S of centre. An outer stone bank, of uncertain date, arcs around the E half of the rath, with an intervening gap of c. 14-16m. It is poorly preserved on the NE arc, reduced to a low grass-covered rise with a low stone-faced scarp (H 0.55m) at N; there is a broad gap/levelled section at ENE−E. At E−S it forms a substantial sod-covered bank (Wth 2.8-3m; H 0.5m) of earth and stone, now largely obscured by hawthorn and blackthorn bushes. There is no evidence that this outer bank ever fully encircled the rath; on the contrary, it curves inwards at NE to meet the N side of the rath, and merging at SW with the natural scarp of the terrace. The outer bank, therefore, encloses a broad, roughly D-shaped annex on the E side of the rath. A portion of this space at E is subdivided by low ruined cross walls, marking the location of a children’s burial ground (SL005-040001-). There is a holy well (Sl005-039----) 35m to NNE. SL005-040001-_01.JPG viewed from SE SL005-040001-_02.JPG viewed from NW SL005-040001-_03.JPG viewed from NE SL005-040001-_04.JPG Rath bank, viewed from S SL005-040001-_05.JPG Outer stone bank, viewed from SE Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of revised upload: 5 February 2021
- SL005-040001 Children's burial ground
Description
Located at a ringfort (SL005-040----). According to local information, burials of unbaptized babies took place in the space intervening between the E side of the rath and the concentric outer bank. The space (7m N-S; 15m E-W) is bounded on the N side by the E-W field wall which crosses the rath and on the S by a low ruined E-W wall (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) that extends between the rath and the outer bank. Short lengths of low ruined walls subdivide the space. The area is grass-covered; with low, moss-covered stones protrude randomly from the grass. No formal grave plots can be discerned. A single upright stone (H 0.53; Wth 0.3m; T 0.18m) stands at the E edge of the space. Three slabs, which may originally have stood upright, lie prostrate at the base of a sycamore tree which is growing on the line of the E-W wall on the S side of the space. It is possible that burials also took place in the rath interior, but there is no direct evidence. The burial ground is named ‘Cill Rouderaun’ in one of two accounts which are preserved in the National Folklore Schools Collection (1937-39) (https://www.duchas.ie/): Volume 0155, p. 001: "… an old graveyard called Cill Rouderaun. About a quarter of a mile from the village of Grange, on the south side of the road leading from Grange to Ballintrillick, Cill Roudeaun is situated Around the ‘reilig’ is the remains of an old stone wall. People say that unbaptised children were buried there long ago: but it has not been used as a burial place within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. About 200 yards north of the ‘reilig’ is a holy well called ‘Tobar Pádruig’" Volume 0155, p. 236-7: "There is an old disused graveyard in the townland of Ardnaglass near Grange, Co Sligo … This graveyard was used only as a burial place for unbaptised children about eighty years ago. There is a large fairy fort in this field and it is said that the children's graves are in and around the fort. There was a flax mill in this field and every morning when the workmen went to work in it they used to see the tracks of little feet in the mill. They thought these were made by the children who had been buried in the fort." Attached images: SL005-040001-_01 viewed from E SL005-040001-_02 viewed from W Notified to NMS by Tamlyn McHugh Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 February 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 188.2 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 6,353 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnaderg, from 158 m² to 172,913 m² (17.29 ha, 42.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Nov 2025Conditional
57m2 single story pitch roof extension to the Western elevation, a 9m2 flat roof extension to the eastern elevation, a 15m2 flat roof extension to the northern elevation and an 18m2 pitched roof garage to the Eastern boundary and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560463
21 Oct 2025Conditional
1. Revised site boundaries to site from that granted under PL06/51. 2. Retention of dwelling as constructed. 3. Retention of revised location of sewerage treatment system and percolation area. 4. Retention of ancillary guest accommodation as constructed. 5. Retention of existing storage outbuilding as constructed. 6. Retention of relocated road entrance. 7. Retention of ground levelling works including top soiling and reseeding all associated with existing dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560431
30 Jul 2025N/a
1. Revised site boundaries to site from that granted under PL06/51. 2. Retention of dwelling as constructed. 3. Retention of revised location of sewerage treatment system and percolation area. 4. Retention of domestic outbuilding including stables and 5. Retention of relocated road entrance, all associated with existing dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560316
28 May 2025Conditional
The construction of a 2-bedroomed, one and a half stories high detached house, including the provision of a proprietary waste water treatment system, a new vehicular entrance onto cul-de-sac local road no. 32042 and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560225
22 May 2025N/a
The construction of a 2-bedroomed, one and a half stories high detached house, including the provision of a proprietary waste water treatment system, a new vehicular entrance onto cul-de-sac local road no. 32042 and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560211
27 Feb 2025N/a
for retention, as constructed, of 1. domestic outbuilding including stables and 2. relocated road entrance both associated with existing dwelling house
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560073
23 Feb 2023Conditional
Renovate existing Dwelling House & Construct New Extensions to the Sides & Rear, Renovate Existing Outbuilding for use ancillary to the Dwelling House, Install New Onsite Wastewater Treatment System with connections to services all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2360030
29 Jul 2022Refused
development consisting of renovation of existing dwelling house and construction of new extension to the rear, renovation of existing outbuilding for use ancillary to the dwelling house, installation of new onsite wastewater treatment system with connections to services and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 22262
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barnaderg.
Recorded monuments
- SL005-077 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on level summit of hillock in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 19.5m) enclosed by a bank of limestone rubble (Wth 3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.45m). No fosse visible. A modern drystone wall of limestone flags and rubble (Wth 0.45m; int. H 1.45m) has been built along the inner face of the bank on all sides. The external face of the bank has been incorporated into a SW-NE orientated drystone field wall SSE-SE. The original entrance is via a break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank and wall at W. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-078 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a broad rise in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c.22m) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.6m). No fosse visible. The bank is densely overgrown with bushes and briars. Original entrance not recognisable A modern NW-SE orientated drystone field wall links to the bank at NE. Two drystone field walls, one orientated NE-SW and one orientated NW-SE, link to the cashel bank at SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-081001 Enclosure
Description
Situated in gently undulating pasture on slight N-facing slope. Two co-joined enclosures. The N enclosure is a raised circular area (diam. 16m) enclosed by a degraded bank of rubble limestone (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.2m). No fosse visible. The bank is incorporated into a NW-SE orientated drystone field wall SW-W. Original entrance not recognisable. The bank of the S enclosure (SL005-081002-) links to the bank of the N enclosure at SE and at SSW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-081002 Enclosure
Description
Situated in gently undulating pasture on slight N-facing slope. Two co-joined enclosures. The bank of the S enclosure links to the bank of the N enclosure (SL005-081001-) at SE and at SSW. The S enclosure is a circular raised area (diam. 15m) enclosed by a very degraded bank of rubble limestone (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.2m). The external face of the bank is incorporated into a NW-SE orientated drystone field wall SW-W. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiler: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 25 April 2013
- SL005-084 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, located at the NW end of a low undulating ridge which borders the S side of a river. The enclosure is sited at the N-NE edge of the ridge where the slope falls away in a long steep drop to the river bank. The location provides good views over the surrounding hilly terrain, overshadowed to SE by the looming slopes of Benbulbin. It is indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (c. 15-20m), bisected centrally on a roughly N−S axis by a field boundary, and shown on the 1912 edition as a semi-circular hachured arc (diam. c. 15m E−W), curving W−N−E, abutted at SE by field boundaries. It was listed in the SMR (1989) as ‘enclosure’. It was not listed in the RMP (1995) on the basis of a 1991 field report which recorded only a quarry hollow at the location. An inspected in 2016 confirmed that there is evidence of an enclosure. It consists of a circular area (diam. 13m NNE−SSW; 14.5m E−W) defined at SW−NE by a low scarp (Wth 0.5-0.6m), enhanced at N−NE (ext. H 0.7-0.8m; Wth slope 1.3m) by the ridge slope. At N−NE the scarp is topped by a very slight rise or bank (Wth 1m). The scarp is indistinct at NE−E. At ESE−S the circuit is defined by an arc of ruined drystone wall, evident as a tumbled heap (Wth 1.2-1.4m; H 0.3m) of loose stone. The S−SE arc of the enclosure cannot be traced. A roughly circular, now grassed-over, quarry pit (diam. 5.4m; D 0.5-0.8), with a shallower extension (Wth 2m) at SW, has destroyed the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 February 2017
- SL005-085 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on the level summit of hillock, in hilly limestone pasture, overlooking a stream to the NE. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a low bank of rubble limestone (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. From N-NE, the bank is absent and the edge of the site is defined by a steep NE facing natural slope. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at S marks the position of the original entrance. A N-S orientated rectangular quarry trench (L 6m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.4m) is located in the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-087 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture on slight N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (dims. 16m N-S; 15m E-W) enclosed by low wall footings (Wth 1m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. The footings of the cashel wall enclose the site ESE-NW. A modern drystone wall has been constructed on the line of the cashel wall NW-N and NE-ESE. A semi-circular sheep pen (dims. 6m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW) defined by modern drystone walls straddles the line of the cashel wall N-NE. The footings of the cashel wall consist mainly of an irregular low rubble limestone bank. Some of the inner and outer facing survives S-SSW consisting of limestone slabs laid on edge at the inner and outer base of the wall with a fill of rubble between the slabs. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-088 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 18m) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 5.25m; int. H 0.4m). No fosse visible. A modern NNE-SSW orientated drystone field wall crosses the site to W of centre crossing the edge of the site at NW and at SW. The stone bank has been removed to the W of this wall and the site is defined by a scarp. A modern drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; H 1.2m) has been constructed on top of the surviving bank NW-SW. From NW-ENE limestone slabs are laid on edge at the base of the bank as revetting. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at SE may mark the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-158 Sweathouse
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. D-shaped structure (max. int. dims. 1.35m N-S; 1.75m E-W; H 1.3m) with drystone limestone rubble walls (dims. at top T 0.3-0.53m; dims. at base T c.1m) built into natural slope. The N wall is straight and is aligned E-W and the domed roof has collapsed. The entrance (H at N façade 0.66m; Wth 0.5m; H at inner side 0.3m) is at the base of the N wall and has three large slabs as lintels. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-170 Standing stone - pair
Description
Situated on a very slight SE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. A deep V-shaped valley and stream are located 12m to NE. The stone pair consists of two sandstone blocks set 5.5m apart on a NE-SW alignment. The SW stone (1.15m N−S; 0.7m E−W; H 0.95m) is roughly diamond-shaped in section with a gently rounded top. The NE stone (0.8m NW−SE; 0.7m NE−SW; H 1.25m) is square in section with a roughly rounded top, which is stepped in profile on its NE−SW axis. No markings or decoration are evident on either stone. 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 Barnaderg.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Barnaderg, 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 Barnaderg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barnaderg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Barnaderg · An Bhearna Dhearg
- Area
- 1,881,539 m² (188.15 ha, 464.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Rossinver West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 243 people lived in 79 households in the Rossinver West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghagad, Ardnaglass Lower, Ardnaglass Upper, Barnarobin, Cashelgarran, Cloontyprocklis, Gortarowey, Gortnaleck, Grogagh, Mullaghnaneane, Newtown
- Placenames
- Barnaderg 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.