Beagh

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh, from 181 m² to 254,253 m² (25.43 ha, 62.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Beagh 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.

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with creep area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201853

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Cutra SAC 000299
• Special Protection Area: Lough Cutra SPA 004056
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cutra 000299

Recorded monuments

• GA123-021 Church
  Description

  On the NW side of an irregularly shaped graveyard (GA123-021001-) in relatively flat but rough scrubland, c. 90m to the SE of the Beagh River. On inspection in August 1982 this otherwise well-preserved rectangular medieval church, aligned E-W, was densely overgrown. Two building phases were evident. The W gable and the N and S side-walls of the original building (L >11m; Wth 5.5m) survived along with a broken single-light window and the original doorway, both in the S wall. The latter was constructed of finely dressed jambs chamfered externally and internally but the original head had been replaced by a flat lintel. The masonry of this building phase consisted of well-coursed limestone blocks and finely dressed alternating quoins, all of which suggested a 15th/16th century date. The original E gable was subsequently demolished when the church was extended 6.35m to the E. The stonework of the extension was distinguishable by its smaller size. The single-light window with a triangular head in the E gable and the crude ogee-headed example in the extended portion of the S wall suggested a late 16th/early 17th century for the second phase of construction. At the W end of the church, immediately to the W of the doorway, the foundations of a later internal dividing wall were visible. This and the two external buttresses on the S wall probably also dated from the later period. In the early 1990s the church was cleaned up and re-pointed as part of a FÁS scheme; the repair of the gap in the N wall and the addition of a new buttress to support the W gable were also part of works carried out. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 495-8; Topgr. Files, NMI). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2020

• GA123-021001 Graveyard
  Description

  This irregularly shaped graveyard (N-S c. 45m; ENE-WSW c. 34m), to the SE of the associated church (GA123-021----), is delimited by a stone wall. Access is via a gateway at NE. Only one headstone, dated 1892, and an iron cross were noted on inspection in August 1982 but following a FÁS graveyard scheme in the early 1990s some formal graves were visible in the SE part of it and a number of unhewn set stones probably marked other graves (Gosling 1995, 6). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 January 2020

• GA129-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a NNW-facing slope in grassland, c. 150m S of the Beagh River. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (40m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall best preserved at W. A gap at WSW appears to be modern. The enclosing element is overlain by a field wall at W, and at NE it is obscured by dense scrub growth. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_805 (ZIP).

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 Beagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Beagh · An Bheitheach

Area

1,360,153 m² (136.02 ha, 336.1 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ardamullivan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardamullivan electoral division: 722 people in 245 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carragh, Carrowgarriff, Cloghnakeava, Russaun

Placenames

Beagh 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.