Barnahown
Townland in the civil parish of Templetenny, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Barr na hAbhann
- Area
- 578.2 ha
- 1,429 acres
- Land parcels
- 134
- registered freehold, median 26,963 m² (2.7 ha, 6.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnahown, from 39 m² to 447,948 m² (44.79 ha, 110.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barnahown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Oct 2025Conditional
single storey dwelling house with a shed including new on site proprietary waster water treatment system, percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated groundworks and landscaping
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2560976
3 Sept 2025N/a
single storey dwelling house with a proposed shed including new on site proprietary waster water treatment system, percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated groundworks and landscaping
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560858
2 Dec 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with percolation area, entrance and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24271
9 Oct 2024Conditional
to demolish existing single storey and two storey farmhouse and permission to construct replacement dwelling in association with previously granted planning ref 23/108 and permission to increase heights of eaves and ridge associated with same
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24225
3 Sept 2024N/a
to demolish existing single storey and two storey farmhouse and increase the heights of eaves and ridge in addition to what was previously granted under planning permission no 23/108
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24199
26 Apr 2023Conditional
to alter and extend existing two storey farmhouse and to demolish attached single storey outbuilding
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23108
1 Mar 2022Conditional
permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, effluent treatment system together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260096
23 Feb 2022N/a
permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, effluent treatment system together with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260078
16 Mar 2020Conditional
to construct a two-storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20261
7 Mar 2018Conditional
construction of a cattle shed with slatted tanks and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600269
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barnahown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnahown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barnahown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barnahown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Barnahown · Barr na hAbhann
- Area
- 5,782,170 m² (578.22 ha, 1,428.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetenny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Ballyporeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyporeen electoral division: 964 people in 362 households; 82% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaleucra (Co. Waterford), Ballyeafy (Co. Waterford), Doon, Glenacunna, Gorteeshal, Gortnaskehy (Co. Cork), Knockbaun (Co. Waterford)
- Placenames
- Barnahown 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.