Barnaboy

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnaboy, from 43 m² to 118,222 m² (11.82 ha, 29.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Barnaboy 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.

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for alterations carried out to the existing domestic storage shed, retention of existing front boundary fence and all ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560583

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  PERMISSION to construct domestic garage and RETENTION PERMISSION for a revised site layout and revised site boundaries along with all necessary site works and ancillaries previously granted under PD/05/532 at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21502

• 4 Aug 2021N/a

  to construct domestic garage and retention permission for a revised site layout with revised site boundaries along with all necessary site works and ancillaries previously granted under PD/05/532 at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21443

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

  i) to demolish derelict dwelling house and shed ii) to construct a new dwelling house and effluent treatment system along with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18283

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 Barnaboy.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise on a SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28.6m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by a stone wall (at S: Wth 2.7m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.1m), with inner an outer facing stones at the base NE-S-W, but the wall is pushed inwards at NW and has spoil added to the outside NW-NE where it forms the townland boundary with Cashelard. There is no visible entrance. See the attached aerial view taken from the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28.5m E-W; 25.7m N-S) defined by a rebuilt stone wall (at N: Wth 1.6m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1m) SW-N which is replaced by a drystone wall on the line of occasionally visible facing stones elsewhere. There is a modern entrance (Wth 0.8m) at ESE. Archaeological testing (06E1098) c. 80m to the WSW failed to produce any related archaeological material (Ó Faoláin 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the crest of a NE-facing slope. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 15m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) defined by a scarp, which is obscured by grass and briar-covered spoil (H 2m) NE-SE, but the inner and outer facing stones of a wall (Wth 1.6m) can be seen at SE. The site is truncated by a NE-SW wall at NW and by a quarry face at 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 Barnaboy.

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Barnaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Barnaboy

Area

1,424,883 m² (142.49 ha, 352.1 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkill, Ballymaging or Castlemore, Boghtaduff, Cashelard, Drumnalassan, Ishlaun, Pollboy, Raherolus (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Barnaboy 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.