Murnaghbeg

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murnaghbeg, from 349 m² to 508,637 m² (50.86 ha, 125.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Murnaghbeg 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Full planning permission for the construction of a new dwellinghouse and garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and bored water well together with all ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6599

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for alterations to northern and southern elevations of existing dwelling house together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4957

• 10 May 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for alterations to Northern and Southern elevations together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4844

• 9 Mar 2011Conditional

  Leathnuchan a chur lena tig conaithe ar a mbeidh leithreas inaimsithe do cathaior rothai, dorchla inaimsithe leathan agus seomra storail

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4457

• 9 Feb 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4234

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 Murnaghbeg.

Recorded monuments

• CO058-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular raised area (27m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by traces of earthen bank (max. int. H 1.2m) NW->SE; scarp (H 1m) S->NW, topped by stone field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO058-027001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, above sharp fall in slope. Circular, slightly raised area (28m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m). Gaps in bank to N and W; entrance (Wth 4m) to S. Interior slopes gently down to S; foundations of circular hut site (8m N-S; 8m E-W) in E half. Bullaun stone (CO058-027002-) protrudes from S side of hut site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO058-027002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Protruding from S side of hut site in ringfort (CO058-027001-). Large boulder with circular hollow (diam. 0.23m; D 0.05m) on upper surface. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO058-028 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope, commanding extensive view across Sullane River valley to Derrynasaggart Mountain. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Murnaghbeg, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Murnaghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Murnaghbeg · An Muirneach Beag

Area

1,128,588 m² (112.86 ha, 278.88 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyvourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

474 people lived in 173 households in the Gortnatubbrid electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolea, Derreenaling, Gortnagross, Gortnatubbrid, Togher

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Murnaghbeg 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.