Beaghy
Beaghy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrehy, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 68.2 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beaghy, from 44 m² to 164,792 m² (16.48 ha, 40.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Beaghy 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
8 Jul 2026N/a
for development which will consist of the demolition of an existing flat roof extension and garage to the east of the original dwelling house and the construction of a new pitched roof extension in their place. The proposed works include the construction of a new roof to the original dwelling with raised ridge height and the upgrade of an existing septic tank with new domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660438
25 Jan 2022Conditional
for the demolition of an existing rear extension and construction of a new rear extension, modifications to existing road entrance and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2242
11 Dec 2020Conditional
to build a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20945
27 Feb 2020N/a
to build a new dwelling house and garage, install a waste water treatment system and all associated site and ancillary works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 20141
20 Sept 2018Conditional
to demolish existing extension and chimney, to construct a new extension and chimney and to renovate existing dwelling including a new window on the east elevation, all with associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18747
6 Sept 2018N/a
to demolish existing rear extension and to construct a new extension to rear of existing dwelling with associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18711
9 Aug 2018Conditional
for development to replace a substandard habitable house including the RETENTION of works to-date on site, demolition of the cottage and construction of replacement dwelling together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18649
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beaghy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beaghy.
Architectural heritage
- Birchfield House, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, built c.1800, comprising four cut-stone piers set in curved rubble stone walls having pair of square-headed pedestrian gates and cast-iron double leaf gates. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1800, now in ruins. Remains of detached five-bay two- and three-storey rubble stone-built Gothic Revival house, built c.1800 by Cornelius O'Brien MP, now in ruins. Group of detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to site, now in ruins.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Beaghy, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Beaghy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Beaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Beaghy
- Area
- 682,445 m² (68.24 ha, 168.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Ballysteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 163 households in the Ballysteen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyea, Ballyheean, Ballymaclinaun, Ballysteen, Caherycahill, Derreen, Lislorkan South, Teeraghbeg
- Placenames
- Beaghy 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.