Kilbeg

156 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg, from 88 m² to 112,800 m² (11.28 ha, 27.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Kilbeg 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661561

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660742

• 27 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY SIDE ATTACHMENTS, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660099

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  PART CONSTRUCTION OF A WALKWAY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461664

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) AN FOIRGNEAMH SEOMRA TAE A LEAG, (2) CLUBTHEACH NUA A THÓGÁIL, (3) SEASTÁN LUCHT FÉACHANA A THÓGÁIL LE TAOBH AN PHÁIRC PHEILE, (4) FOIRGNEAMH SEOMRA FEISTIS BREISE A THÓGÁIL LE, (5) GACH CEANGAL NUA A CHUR LE SEIRBHÍSÍ POBAIL ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN AGUS (6) GACH FORBAIRT EILE ATÁ DE DHÍTH DON SUÍOMH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460997

• 28 Jun 2024N/a

  (1) AN FOIRGNEAMH SEOMRA TAE A LEAG, (2) CLUBTHEACH NUA A THÓGÁIL, (3) SEASTÁN LUCHT FÉACHANA A THÓGÁIL LE TAOBH AN PHÁIRC PHEILE, (4) FOIRGNEAMH SEOMRA FEISTIS BREISE A THÓGÁIL LE, (5) GACH CEANGAL NUA A CHUR LE SEIRBHÍSÍ POBAIL ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN AGUS (6) GACH FORBAIRT EILE ATÁ DE DHÍTH DON SUÍOMH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460982

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO ACCESS AGRICULTURAL LANDS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350774

• 17 Dec 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152537

• 19 Oct 2021Unconditional

  INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER TO REPLACE EXISTING SUBSTANDARD SYSTEM SERVING DWELLING AND INSTALL NEW WINDOWS AND PATIO DOOR TO SIDE & REAR ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2152071

• 23 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) ULILITY ROOM TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING GUEST HOUSE AND (2) A FUEL STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING GUEST HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM GUEST HOUSE TO PRIVATE DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150506

• 27 Mar 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950415

• 6 Jun 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750872

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150

Recorded monuments

• DG096-020 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  An irregular mound of stone 17m NE-SW × 5.5m NW-SE, c. 21m S of a wedge-tomb (114). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG096-021 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument is c. 200m E of and overlooking the outer end of Teelin Bay. There is a fine outlook southward across Donegal Bay to the coasts of counties Mayo and Sligo. Rising ground restricts the view inland. The rocky landscape in the vicinity of the site provides rough pasture. The tomb consists of a gallery, at least 5m long, which decreases in height and width from WSW to ENE. A single facade-stone flanks each side of the W end of the gallery, and between these is an orthostat forming a divided entrance. A large roof stone toward the E end of the gallery seems to be partly displaced, and further displaced slabs beyond this obscure the structure. Three outer-wall stones survive beyond the gallery at the N. A field wall close to the S side of the monument impinges on the disturbed E end of the gallery. A scatter of small stones here, now partly grass grown, may be spill from the wall. Between this wall and the gallery side is a grass- grown mass of stones c. 0.5m high, perhaps the remains of a cairn. There is a similar fill between the gallery side and outer wall at the N. The orthostat dividing the gallery entrance is 1.15m high. The northern facade-stone is 1.2m high, and the southern one is 1m high. The gallery is 1.75m wide at the W and clearly narrowed toward the disturbed E end. Three sidestones survive at the N side. The westernmost of these articulates with the northern facade-stone, which rises 0.45m above it. This sidestone is 0.8m high. The second sidestone, 0.6m to the E, is 0.7m high. The third, 2.1m beyond the second, partly obscured by displaced stones, is 0.45m high. At the S four contiguous stones survive along the front half of the gallery. Between the westernmost of these and the southern facade-stone is a small firmly set stone, 0.45m high, which may also be part of the gallery side. The heights of the four contiguous sidestones from W to E are 0.6m, 0.5m, 0.6m and 0.25m. The large roof stone, 2.3m from the front of the gallery, measures 2.3m by 1.3m and is 0.25m thick. It rests on the easternmost sidestone on the S side of the gallery and, at the N, on the upper one of two slabs that overlie a partly concealed stone inside the line of the gallery side. The partly concealed stone (shown on plan) measures at least 0.35m long, 0.25m thick and 0.1m high. Its status is uncertain. The lower of the two superimposed slabs, neither of which is shown on the plan, measures 0.5m by 0.3m by 0.15m thick. The upper one measures 1.4m by 0.5m by 0.25m thick. The NE end of this overlies what appears to be a deliberate build-up of small stones, unlikely to be an original feature. Another stone (not on plan), measuring 1.3m by 0.6m by 0.3m thick, protrudes from under the SW end of the roofstone. To the E of the roofstone are two slabs, both displaced, lying across the gallery. The northern one measures 1.35m by at least 0.7m by 0.4m thick. The southern one measures 1.3m by lm by 0.25m thick. To the E of the northern edge of this is a loose stone, at least 0.5m in maximum dimension, and c. 0.4m N of this a partly concealed slab, at least 0.6m in maximum dimension and 0.15m thick, partly overlies the easternmost sidestone on the N side. The outer-walling at the N converges on the gallery side toward the E. The westernmost of the three orthostats here is lm beyond the westernmost sidestone, and the next, 1.2m to the E, is 0.6m beyond the gallery side. The heights of the three from W to E are 0.35m, 0.15m and 0.1m. The last is skewed slightly from the line of the other two. Fagan 1845-8, book 19, 49; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 42, no. 107 (plan); SMR 1987, 96:21; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 96:21. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG096-022 Burial ground
  Description

  A graveyard known as Relig Cill Mhic Stuice. There is now no surface indication of its nature. Grave markers are said to have been found in the past. Located on good pasture land overlooking Tawny Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG096-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A modernised holy well dedicated to St. Patrick. The cairns noted by Fagan (Bk. 19, 41) are no longer visible. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG096-024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 18.5m E-W. Known locally as Dun Ailinn. The site consists of an almost circular area enclosed by a completely collapsed, partly grassed-over wall. The interior is flat. The site is located on a height overlooking Tawny Bay surrounded by fair pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1840, having single-storey extension to the rear (north). Still occupied. Pitched/domed thatched roof (recently re-thatched) having ropes over secured on pegs at eaves level. Roughcast rendered chimneystacks to either gable end. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway having timber door having glazed panel to upper half. Set slightly back from road in elevated sloping site to the west of Cill Charta/Kilcar, overlooking Tawny Bay to the south. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west having pitched thatched roof and rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorway to the east elevation having timber sheeted door.

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 Kilbeg, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Kilbeg · An Chill Bheag

Area

999,521 m² (99.95 ha, 246.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Kilcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

669 people lived in 260 households in the Kilcar electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrylahan, Kilcar, Tawny

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Kilbeg 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.