Barnacoyle Big

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacoyle Big, from 40 m² to 219,700 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Barnacoyle Big 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.

• 14 Jul 2026Refused

  mobile home for her personal use, effluent treatment unit and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660629

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  mobile home for personal use, effluent treatment unit and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660552

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a new farm entrance and fence onto the R761, access road and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560286

• 12 Sept 2022Refused

  new roadside entrance to access farm along with all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22985

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a new 230 square metre farm building and hard standing, for agricultural use as a sheep shed, together with all necessary ancillary works, drainage and fencing

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21373

• 2 Mar 2021N/a

  construction of a new 230 square metre farm building and hard standing, for agricultural use as a sheep shed, together with all necessary ancillary works, drainage and fencing

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21214

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 Barnacoyle Big.

Recorded monuments

• WI019-046 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The RMP (1995) map for Co. Wicklow has an x marked at this location and is annotated 'Fulacht fiadh' suggesting that such a monument is located where the X is marked on the map. The site of the fulacht fiadh has not been visited. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 November 2012

• WI019-047 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  A small prehistoric pit, located on the south-west flank of a low hill, in tillage, was archaeologically excavated (Licence No. 01E0434). The pit measured 2.1m north-south by 0.9-1.07m, with a depth of 0.5m. Two possible post-holes were present at the northern end. The cut was generally U-shaped in profile, with straight sides on the north, south, south-west, west and north-west, but with more gradually sloping sides on the north-east, east and south-east. The lower fill of the pit cut consisted of a moderately compact brown, yellow-mottled, clay sand which contained occasional fragments of charcoal and small stones. This fill was present throughout the cut and measured 2.1m north-south by 1.07m, with a depth of approximately 0.05m. At the sides it blended into the natural subsoil. The upper fill of the cut produced 34 sherds of decorated prehistoric pottery. This latter fill was a moderately compact dark brown clay sand with occasional inclusions of small stones and charcoal fragments, 0.28-0.14m deep. Analysis of the pottery by Anna Brindley suggested that a single vessel was represented by the sherds, and that it is likely to date from the early Bronze Age. Elements of the decoration point to the Vase tradition, but the form of the rim and cordons points to the Cordoned Urn tradition (Bennett 2003, 412). Date of upload: 29 September 2012

• WI019-048 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Part of a fulacht fiadh was archaeologically excavated (Licence No. 01E0822). The site had been detected as a spread of burnt materialduring the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook-Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. A small area, which measured approximately 6.5m north-south by 6m, was opened for excavation by hand. This corresponded with the western area of the pipeline driving track at the point where it met an east-west-aligned third-class road which links the N11 and the R761 regional road. A small stream flows east-west parallel to the road. The present channel of the stream appears to be modern. The base mapping used by BGE for the pipeline construction project indicates a small unnamed stream in this location. A loop can clearly be seen to the west of the Barnacoyle Big II site. Conversation with the landowner revealed that the stream was only placed into the current channel during the 1960s. The archaeological features were revealed because a larger area of topsoil was stripped owing to the need for storage and parking at a road crossing. The earliest activity revealed by excavation related to the bed of the since-diverted stream. Some five deposits of riverine origin were revealed in the former streambed. These sat in a depression in the northern part of the excavated area. The lowermost deposit encountered consisted of a waterlogged layer of friable grey sand with charcoal flecking. This was present throughout the area of the streambed examined, measuring approximately 6m east-west by 2.1-1.8m. The depth of this deposit was unknown as it was only partly excavated. A sherd of Bronze Age coarse ware was recovered from the portion of the deposit which was removed. A series of sterile river gravels sealed this deposit. A series of large water-worn limestone boulders were also present in the centre of the former streambed. The feature which initially attracted attention was a spread of heat-shattered stone and charcoal sitting at the point where the river gravels met natural boulder clay. This layer consisted of a moderately compact black clay and stone deposit with inclusions of heat-shattered limestone and sandstone fragments ranging in size from 40mm to 100mm. Inclusions of charcoal were also present in the spread; a particular concentration was noted in the eastern extremity of the part exposed. This deposit measured approximately 6.06m east-west by 1.6-0.96m as exposed, with a depth of 0.1-0.26m. No trough was encountered during the excavations. It is likely that the spread of heat-shattered stone and charcoal is representative of wider activity along the bank of the former stream (Bennett 2003, 412). Date of upload: 29 Septmber 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3386 (ZIP).

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 Barnacoyle Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Barnacoyle Big · Bearna Choill Mhór

Area

896,331 m² (89.63 ha, 221.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killiskey, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Lower electoral division: 2,472 people in 797 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacoyle Little, Castlegrange, Grange North, Grange South, Killoughter, Kilmartin, Tiglin

Placenames

Barnacoyle Big 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.