# Mass Beg, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 577,262 m² (57.73 ha, 142.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 114,789 m² (11.48 ha, 28.37 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16235 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51879 - Centre: latitude 54.85801, longitude -7.544821 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mass Beg, from 1,598 m² to 174,053 m² (17.41 ha, 43.01 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1330356: 174,053 m² (17.41 ha, 43.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330356.md - Parcel 1331688: 143,808 m² (14.38 ha, 35.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331688.md - Parcel 1338932: 116,721 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338932.md - Parcel 1321400: 112,858 m² (11.29 ha, 27.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321400.md - Parcel 1331443: 20,550 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331443.md - Parcel 1394848: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394848.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mass Beg 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 26 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/6020) DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661184/0 - 5 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561337: Conditional. Permission. INSTALLATION OF A DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561337/0 - 21 Dec 2022, Donegal County Council 2252067: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1) SELF-CONTAINED FLAT WITHIN THE APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE ON A TEMPORARY BASIS DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE (2) COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2252067/0 - 3 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2250966: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REF:17/50046 CONSISTING OF THE RELOCATION OF PERMITTED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE IN A SOUTH-EASTERLY DIRECTION, ALSO REVISING THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SUIT THE NEW LOCATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250966/0 - 20 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152555: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A SLATTED SHEEP SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152555/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mass Beg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG070-031: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-031----. A small stump of stone is said to be the remains of a standing stone not marked on the OS 6-inch maps. It is believed to have been broken c. 1977. It is located in an elevated position in good land with wide views. 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 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 Mass Beg. ## 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 Mass Beg, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1896, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1896.zip (ZIP). - 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/donegal/mass-beg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mass-beg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mass-beg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mass Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Broadlea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/broadlea.md - Gortinreagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortinreagh.md - Mass More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mass-more.md - Mulnaveagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mulnaveagh.md - Sheercloon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sheercloon.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/donegal/mass-beg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/mass-beg