Biggera Beg

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Biggera Beg, from 584 m² to 158,030 m² (15.8 ha, 39.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Biggera 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.

• 28 Jun 2022Conditional

  to a serviced dwelling with a septic tank and percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 198.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22820

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a four bay single slatted cattle shed with creep area and also a new farm entrance from the public road. Gross floor space of proposed works: 276 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181500

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 Biggera Beg.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. A circular rath (D 36m) defined by a well-preserved bank and external fosse from S to SW and at NE. Quarrying has occurred just outside the monument at S. 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

• Castlehacket National School, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey school building, built c.1845, now derelict. Pitched slate roof with moulded limestone corbels to eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Two ashlar limestone gabled chimneystacks with moulded string courses and cornices. Dressed limestone walling to front elevation, rendered elsewhere, having plinth course and sparrow-pecked quoins. Evidence of former presence of further bay or bays to north end. Square-headed openings with sparrow pecked surrounds and limestone sills, missing fittings except for single two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to ground floor front. Set back from road with field stone boundary wall to south-east and single-storey flat-roofed outbuilding to rear.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Biggera 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 Biggera Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Biggera Beg · Bigire Beag

Area

1,466,235 m² (146.62 ha, 362.31 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killower electoral division: 925 people in 302 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Biggera More, Carheens, Cluidrevagh, Fearagha

Placenames

Biggera 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.