Barreel

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barreel, from 5 m² to 138,613 m² (13.86 ha, 34.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Barreel 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.

• 20 May 2026Refused

  We, Cunlaghfadda Green Energy Limited, intend to apply for a ten-year planning permission for development in the townlands of Knockroe, Cunlaghfadda, Harefield, Cloonbaul and Knockaunakill, County Mayo. The development will comprise the provision of a renewable energy development consisting of the following: i. 7 no. wind turbines with a top of foundation to blade tip height of 160 metres; a rotor blade diameter of 136 metres; and hub height of 92 metres,1 no. meteorological mast with a height of 92 metres and subsequent decommissioning of the wind turbines and meteorological mast following a thirty five-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines; ii. Turbine and meteorological mast foundations and associated temporary and permanent hard-standing areas; iii. All associated underground electrical and communications cabling and subsequent decommissioning of all underground cabling within the site connecting the turbines to a proposed 110kV substation following a thirty five year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines; iv. 1 no. temporary construction compound; v. Upgrade and widening of existing internal tracks and provision of new permanent and temporary site access tracks and all associated site drainage; vi. Upgrade and temporary road widening works along the L15053 and provision of 1 no. passing bay; vii. 1 no. new temporary site entrance off the L1505 in the townland of Knockroe to accommodate the delivery of abnormal loads and construction phase traffic; viii. 1 no. new permanent site entrance in the townlands of Cunlaghfadda and Cloonbaul; ix. 1 no. borrow pit; x. 10 no. peat and spoil management areas; xi. 2 no. temporary security cabins; xii. Tree felling and vegetation removal; xiii. Biodiversity enhancement areas; xiv. Site drainage; xv. Site fencing, gates and signage; and xvi. All related site works above and below ground and all ancillary development.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660398

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  MOVING THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT BACK 6 METERS FROM ORIGINALLY GRANTED AND RAISING THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL TO 81.400 TO MATCH NEW SITE POSITION.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20511

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 209

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 Barreel.

Recorded monuments

• MA101-103 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low, narrow roughly N−S ridge, with a sharp fall of ground immediately to N. The location overlooks gently undulating terrain, with an expanse of bog stretching to NE. This monument is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is visible in current aerial imagery. Raised subcircular mound (overall diam. c. 22-24m) with a relatively flat top (diam. c. 12m) and broadly sloping sides (Wth slope 6-10m; H 1.7m at N, 1.5m at E−S) enhanced by a natural fall of ground on the N and E, and truncated on the W side by a N−S field wall/property boundary. A low bank-like rise (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.3m) defines the top edge of the platform at SSW; this is evident only for a short length (L 4m), and there is no trace of an enclosing bank elsewhere around the top of the platform. The N slope of the mound has the steepest fall of ground, dropping to a narrow terrace (Wth 8m), at the outer edge of which there is another abrupt fall of ground (H c. 2m). A row of close-set boulders and stones along the E−W edge of the terrace is a modern feature. According local information, there was a ‘Lisheen’ or children’s burial ground (MA101-103001-) at or in the vicinity of the mound. Attached images: MA101-103----_01.JPG Viewed from E MA101-103----_02.JPG Viewed from S MA101-103----_03.JPG Viewed from NE Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 March 2021

• MA101-103001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At a mound (MA101-103----). According to local tradition, a ‘Lisheen’, where unbaptized babies were buried, was located at or in close proximity to the mound. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 March 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barreel, 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 Barreel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Barreel · Barr Fhríl

Area

968,297 m² (96.83 ha, 239.27 acres)

Civil parish

Tagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Mayo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

437 people lived in 168 households in the Mayo electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh North, Cappagh South, Knockrickard, Knockroe, Maltpool

Placenames

Barreel 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.