Barravakeen

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barravakeen, from 397 m² to 1,309,168 m² (130.92 ha, 323.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Barravakeen 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.

• 4 Feb 2021Refused

  to construct a part dormer part single-storey dwelling, garage, together with sewage treatment plant and percolation area, borehole, entrance and driveway and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2175

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  the construction of a linked extension to the side of the existing single storey house comprising the following: A) Double garage and utility/bathroom on lower level. B) Map room/library at first floor level. C) The construction of the extension roof to be in similar hipped style as the existing house but to incorporate 2 no. dormer features (with Balconies) and a total of 5 no. Velux (or similar) roof lights. D) The modification of the existing roof to incorporate a new raised entrance portico over the existing entrance and E) Internal modifications to existing house including the amalgamation of 2 no. bedrooms to form an enlarged master bedroom. All of the above to be for private residential use as part of the existing house

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17607

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  the continuation of use for a 35 metre high lattice work tower with associated equipment attached. The tower with associated equipment is within an existing fenced compound. This application is subsequent to a conditional grant of permission for the development by Waterford County Council reference 12/245

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17431

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 Barravakeen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barravakeen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Barravakeen.

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 Barravakeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Barravakeen · Barr Bháicín

Area

2,158,566 m² (215.86 ha, 533.39 acres)

Civil parish

Killaloan, and its townlands

Barony

Upperthird

Electoral division

Gurteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gurteen electoral division: 383 people in 136 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boola, Carricknabrone, Glendalough, Glendaw, Lyranearla

Placenames

Barravakeen 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.