Beagh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Bheitheach Bheag
- Area
- 146.8 ha
- 363 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 9,042 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh Beg, from 440 m² to 80,804 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Beagh 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
24 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.00 sqm(H), 45.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561011
11 Oct 2023Conditional
to construct a fully serviced dwellinghouse, garage & a treatment plant system. Permission also to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sightlines can be obtained
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361221
20 Sept 2023Conditional
for the construction of a new private dwellinghouse, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area & domestic garage along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361124
19 Jun 2023Conditional
for a serviced dwelling with effluent tretament system & a garage/shed
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360674
27 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling and garage/shed.Gross floor space of proposed works 231.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260971
10 May 2022Conditional
for extension to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works 45.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260459
21 Mar 2022Conditional
for an extension of an existing shed and the use of this shed for the processing of materials collected through my recycling business. Gross floor space of proposed works: 17.76 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 22377
7 Jan 2022Conditional
to construct serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 190 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 228
5 Oct 2021Refused
to construct a serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 190sqm, Garage 60sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211830
4 Jun 2019Conditional
to construct an all weather pitch with fencing and associated services on existing school grounds. Gross floor space of proposed works: Pitch = 1500 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19840
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- GA042-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Named 'Sheenaun Fort' on OS Fair Plan, it consists of a well-preserved overgrown circular rath (D 24.9m) defined by a bank. A gap at ESE may mark the original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA042-025 Religious house - unclassified
Description
In gently undulating farmland. According to local information, there was a monastery here but the community later moved to Tipperary. The 'plum garden' of the monastery was extant up to ten years ago but no visible surface trace now survives. However, much slate is still usually dug up when ploughing. This is probably the site of the Franciscan house of 'Beagh in the barony of Clare', described in 1585 as a 'ruined chapel or cell' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 269). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having banded cylindrical shaft, fluted neck, ram's head bucket grip, fluted domed top with pointed finial and cow's tail pumping arm. Rendered wall to rear and sides. Stile in rendered wall to side of well enclosure.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Beagh 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 Beagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Beagh Beg · An Bheitheach Bheag
- Area
- 1,468,443 m² (146.84 ha, 362.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Beaghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Beaghmore electoral division: 394 people in 136 households; 84% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintleva, Beagh More, Bellanagarraun, Bunnasillagh, Carheenard, Killamanagh, Raheen
- Placenames
- Beagh 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.