Acre Beg

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acre Beg, from 644 m² to 94,150 m² (9.41 ha, 23.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Acre 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.

• 8 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct an entrance to agricultural land

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560728

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 Acre Beg.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A circular rath (diam. 40m), in good condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Both banks are breached by numerous gaps, however, one at SSE may correspond to a 'causeway across the fosse' which was noted on 'S side' (Unpublished file, National Monuments Service). The interior is raised considerably above the surrounding field level. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 October 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

No address of the register names Acre Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Acre Beg · An tAcra Beag

Area

180,263 m² (18.03 ha, 44.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteskill, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilteskill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilteskill electoral division: 393 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acre More, Earlspark, Masonbrook, Moanmore

Placenames

Acre 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.