Barnbawn

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnbawn, from 406 m² to 263,531 m² (26.35 ha, 65.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Barnbawn 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.

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560165

• 19 Feb 2021Refused

  reclamation of land through the importation of clean inert soil and stone for the purposes of land improvement for agricultural end use over an area of 1.94 hectares using the existing field entrance and existing haul road & all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21158

• 14 Sept 2017Refused

  change of use (removal of condition section 47 of planning reference 11/4589)

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171118

• 5 Sept 2017N/a

  change of use (removal of condition section 47 of planning reference 11/4589) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171072

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenealy Woods 001756

Recorded monuments

• WI030-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a marked NE-facing slope. Northern half of approximately circular ringfort (dims. 38m WNW-ESE; 40m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) and bisected by a field boundary extending E-W across the site. There is a possible entrance feature (Wth 3m) at the NNW. Poorly defined trace of bank (L 8m) to the S of field boundary at the W. No indiction of an external fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barnbawn, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Barnbawn · An Bhearna Bhán

Area

1,321,593 m² (132.16 ha, 326.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Rathdrum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,173 people lived in 1,108 households in the Rathdrum electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinakill, Ballinastraw, Ballydowling, Ballymanus Upper, Garryduff, Sleanaglogh

Placenames

Barnbawn 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.