Money Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Muine Beag
- Area
- 197.4 ha
- 488 acres
- Land parcels
- 162
- registered freehold, median 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
162 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Money Beg, from 86 m² to 469,269 m² (46.93 ha, 115.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Money Beg 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
2 Mar 2026Conditional
TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS DABHACH SEARACHAIS A THÓGAIL
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660306
21 Aug 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING OUTHOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561451
10 Jul 2023Conditional
MEADÚ A CHUIR LEIS AN ÁIT SÚGRADH DO PHAISTÍ
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351005
6 Oct 2022Conditional
LE ÁIT SÚGRADH DO PHAISTÍ A THÓGAIL LE OBAIR SUÍOMH
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251680
22 Dec 2021Conditional
INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND A POLISHING FILTER AREA TO SERVICE THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152614
17 Nov 2021Conditional
LE MEADÚ A CHUIR LE TAOBH, AR CÚL AGUS ÁTHRAITHE A DHÉANAMH AR A DTEACH CÓNAITHE AR AN SUÍOMH SEO
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152265
1 Nov 2021N/a
LE MEADÚ A CHUIR LE TAOBH, AR CÚL AGUS ÁTHRAITHE A DHÉANAMH AR A DTEACH CÓNAITHE AR AN SUÍOMH SEO
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152170
20 Aug 2021Unconditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING PARTIALLY BUILT GARAGE TO A DWELLING HOUSE (2) EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND REAR OF SAME BUILDING (3) SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151670
7 Oct 2019Conditional
MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF ALTERATIONS TO THE ROOF TO PROVIDE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FRONT PORCH AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951503
1 Aug 2018Conditional
TEACH CÓNAITHE ÚR AGUS DABHACH SEARACHAIS A THÓGAIL
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851207
1 Nov 2017Unconditional
6 STÁBLA CAPALL BREISE A THÓGAIL, 2 STÁBLA AGUS ÁIT STÓRAIL A LEAGAINT AGUS IONAD CAPPALL A THÓGAIL IDIR AGUS LE TAOBHANNA NA STABLAÍ ATÁ ANN CHEANNA
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1751672
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
- DG042-004 Crannog
Description
Depicted as a small circular 'island' in Dunlewy Lough on the 1906 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Hiberno-Romanesque Catholic church, built 1876-7, having round-plan tower to north, sacristy to southwest and apse to southeast. Pitched banded purple and grey slate roof with semi-cone over sanctuary, ashlar copings to gable-front with cross finial, cast-iron profiled gutters and hoppers, square-section downpipes, and scrolled dentillated eaves course. Conical stone roof to tower, with cross finial and scrolled dentillated eaves course. Pitched slate roof to sacristy, with ashlar copings and chimneystack with ashlar skews, chamfered coping and clay pot to gable with scrolled dentils. Coursed limestone walls with tooled granite sill course to nave and white quartzite string course at springing level, buttresses with granite skews to gable-front having granite cut-stone clock-face and roof with cross finial, and round-headed niche within pointed-arch raised white quartzite surround with statue inset. Coursed limestone walls to tower, with projecting plinth having slate canted course with white quartzite and granite tooled string courses. Granite kneeler stones to sacristy. Round-headed window openings with chamfered white quartzite surrounds, granite integral sills and leaded stained glass with secondary glazing. Round-headed openings to gable-front, flanking niche, and round-headed belvedere to top stage of tower. Round-headed entrance with white quartzite moulded colonnettes to cut-stone surround with hood-moulding, and timber battened double-leaf door. Plain interior, with timber boarding to vaulted ceiling and exposed braced-arch timber trusses with paired colonnettes supporting chancel truss. Set in rural landscape, with An Earagail [Errigal Mountain] to the east and Loch na Cuinge Uachtarach [Lough Nacung Upper] to the west, surrounded by graveyard with recent boundary walls and gate.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Money Beg.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Money Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Money Beg · Muine Beag
- Area
- 1,974,399 m² (197.44 ha, 487.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Dunlewy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunlewy electoral division: 689 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beltany Mountain, Dunlewy Far, Fawnaboy, Glentornan, Keeldrum Upper, Money More
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Money Beg 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.