# Barnbawn, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Bhearna Bhán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,321,593 m² (132.16 ha, 326.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,863 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilcommon-rathdrum-ra.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Rathdrum, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55709 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250354 - Centre: latitude 52.970671, longitude -6.196734 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnbawn, from 406 m² to 263,531 m² (26.35 ha, 65.12 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1277357: 263,531 m² (26.35 ha, 65.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277357.md - Parcel 1271593: 206,323 m² (20.63 ha, 50.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271593.md - Parcel 1262306: 181,702 m² (18.17 ha, 44.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262306.md - Parcel 3380411: 17,186 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380411.md - Parcel 1265506: 16,797 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265506.md - Parcel 1258625: 11,569 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258625.md - Parcel 3380403: 6,863 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380403.md - Parcel 1287150: 6,161 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287150.md - Parcel 1294662: 5,574 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294662.md - Parcel 1261024: 5,172 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261024.md - Parcel 2674392: 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674392.md - Parcel 2733833: 4,040 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733833.md - Parcel 2733835: 406 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733835.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 12 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560165: Conditional. Permission. construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560165/0 - 19 Feb 2021, Wicklow County Council 21158: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21158/0 - 14 Sept 2017, Wicklow County Council 171118: Refused. Permission, 1 home. change of use (removal of condition section 47 of planning reference 11/4589). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171118/0 - 5 Sept 2017, Wicklow County Council 171072: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171072/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenealy Woods, site code 001756 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI030-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI030-002----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnbawn. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnbawn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnbawn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnbawn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barnbawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinakill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinakill-250086.md - Ballinastraw: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinastraw-250102.md - Ballydowling: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-250182.md - Ballymanus Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymanus-upper.md - Garryduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garryduff.md - Sleanaglogh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/sleanaglogh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnbawn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/barnbawn