Beaghcauneen

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beaghcauneen, from 2,078 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 620,604 m² (62.06 ha, 153.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Beaghcauneen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Beaghcauneen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA049-009 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Close to shore at N end of Loch Fada. Subcircular island (N-S 24m; E-W 21m) defined by a platform of stones and peat. This encloses a central mound of peat (H 1.7m) which slopes towards S. There is a small rectangular depression (L 1.5m, Wth 1m) in S half of the interior. A well-preserved stone causeway (Wth 1.15m), running SW from the island for 21.3m before turning S for 3.7m, connects it to the shore. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Beaghcauneen · Beitheach Cháinín

Area

2,685,749 m² (268.57 ha, 663.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Derrylea, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Derrigimlagh, Derrycunlagh, Slieveburke

Placenames

Beaghcauneen 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.