Cloonbeg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbeg, from 3,348 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) to 1,158,504 m² (115.85 ha, 286.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Cloonbeg 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.

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  consisting of the demolition of the existing two storey 633sqm staff accommodation block built in the 1990's to the west of the main house and the construction of a two storey with dormer roof 1020sqm 10 bedroom guest wing with stores under. Creation of new link into the existing guest corridor at -1 level. Single storey 12sqm extension to existing staircase to the rear of the Luxury Wing to provide new secondary access to the bedroom wings. Relocation of the existing vehicular access road to the west of the new bedroom wing and modifications to the existing car parking (12 spaces) and general landscaping. Ballynahinch Castle Hotel is a Protected structure. A Natura Impact statement has been prepared. Gross floor area proposed 1032m2, demolition 633m2.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181185

• 20 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a 25 sqm. single storey extension of the Morning Room to the north east of the hotel, which will extend the c.1990 portion of the hotel, adjacent to the original house (c. 1810), with direct access from both, to provide an additional seating area to the existing Morning Room; new parquet timber floor to the existing Morning Room; construction of an additional 24 sqm. external raised terrace to the east of the hotel. Ballynahinch Castle Hotel is a Protected Structure. Gross floor space of proposed works 25 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18189

• 7 Dec 2017N/a

  consisting of a 25sqm, single storey extension of the Morning Room to the north east of the hotel, which will extend the c. 1990 portion of the hotel, adjacent to the original house, (c.1810), with direct access from both, to provide an additional seating area to the existing Morning Room; new parquet timber floor to the existing Morning Room; construction of an additional 24sqm external raised terrace to the east of the hotel. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared. Ballynahinch Castle Hotel is a protected structure. Gross floor space of proposed works 25sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 5743sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171749

• 6 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a 67sqm single storey (3.9m high) traditional glasshouse in the north west corner of the walled garden. The development is in the curtilage of Ballynahinch Castle Hotel - a Protected structure. Gross floor space of proposed works 67sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171589

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  permission to retain and operate existing 25 metre telecommunications support structure carrying associated antennae and link dishes, (full height with antennas 26.5m), associated equipment container, cabinet, security fencing and access track, (as per previous Planning Ref P11/1721) at Coillte. The development will continue to form part of existing Broadband Network.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171428

• 7 Sept 2017N/a

  for development at Ballynahinch Castle Tower House, Recorded Monuments GA036-00101-Tower house located on GA036-00102-Crannog. The development will consist of the re-instatement of a natural slate pitched roof, glazed screens to external openings on internal face and stone floor to the single storey 19th Century Lodge under scholarly restoration and the insertion a floor at first floor level and zinc flat roof within the late medieval Tower House by retaining the original ruined character using a policy of minimum intervention. Gross floor space of proposed works 21sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 75sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171329

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the removal of existing agricultural shed and construction of 130sqm single storey office for hotel administration, provision of 38 nr. car parking spaces and associated drainage. The development is in the curtilage of Ballynahinch Castle Hotel - a protected structure. Gross floor area proposed 130m2, demolition 213m2

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17997

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonbeg.

Architectural heritage

• Ballynahinch Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant south entrance gateway to Ballinahinch Castle, built c.1850, with vehicular entrance and one pedestrian entrance. Rock-faced granite sweep walls and piers with stepped cement-topped copings supporting decorative cast-iron railings and gates. Piers have tooled margins and cement copings. Camber-headed pseudo-lights to piers flanking entrances. Piers to road have blind openings.

• Cloonbeg Bridge, bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c.1810, spanning Owenmore River. Comprises irregular coursed rubble stonework with dressed limestone piers carrying chamfered pecked and margined limestone string course to base of parapet. Dressed limestone segmental arch with gunnelled concrete soffit. Margined and rock-faced limestone copings to parapets. Stone steps give access to north-eastern river bank adjacent to bridge.

• Cloonbeg Bridge, bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c.1810, spanning Owenmore River. Comprises dressed stone blocks built to courses with projecting quoins tying into revetment for road. Segmental arch with finely dressed voussoirs with stone soffit. Dry-stone rubblework parapet (probably later addition).

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-span railway bridge, erected 1895, now disused. Land ends of bridge comprise broken-coursed rubble limestone revetments with flanking parapets and having margined rock-faced quoins, string course and copings, and flanked by sloping buttresses. Pier to river with similar construction and detailing and having battered sides and round-nosed cutwater. Superstructure of bridge is steel girder with riveted plate and having corrugated sheet sections to bridge bed covered with gravel and earth. Bridge surface overgrown and in poor condition.

• Ballynahinch Railway station, signal box, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey signal box, erected 1895, now used as outbuilding in grounds of private house. Pitched slate roof with decorative tiled ridge, decoratively carved timber bargeboards with timber finials to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined and ruled render to ground floor with steel casing in south-east elevation still present for signal mechanism. Horizontal timber lapped boarding to upper floor, with fixed timber-framed ribbon windows to each elevation. Glazed timber door to first floor of north-west elevation with recent timber balcony and ramp giving access. Replacement timber battened door to ground floor of south-east elevation.

• Ballynahinch Railway Station, railway station, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former railway station and stationmaster's house, built c.1895, now used as private residence. Road elevation faces north-east. Building comprises two-storey house having three-bay front and two-bay rear elevations, with single-storey station proper attached to south-west and having four-bay road and multiple-bay trackside elevation, latter also having canted-bay window and projecting canopy. Gable-fronted north-east bay of front elevation of house projects slightly. Pitched artificial slate roofs with carved and tooled limestone copings to gables, red brick chimneystacks having grey brick upper portions topped with margined rock-faced copings. Exposed king-post trusses to gables. Square-profile cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Platform canopy supported on ornate cast-iron brackets on tooled limestone corbels. Red brick walls with chamfered brick plinth and having black brick bands. Camber-arched window and door openings throughout with moulded brick surrounds, black brick voussoirs and hood-mouldings. Some windows to station and to ground floor of house are paired. Window openings have tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Replacement timber doors. Oculus to upper gable of south-west elevation has moulded black brick surround and stained glass. Concrete coping for platform is in situ. Situated next to road with former signal box to north and engine shed to south-west.

• Ballynahinch Railway Station, locomotive shed, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay former goods shed, built 1895, now in use as private residence, and having recessed single-bay former office to north-east end having lower roof. Recent additions to rear and to south-west end. Pitched slate roof with decoratively tiled ridge, brick chimneystack, tooled limestone copings to gables and cast-iron and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Dormer windows to south-west end of front and rear elevations and recent skylight towards middle of roof. Coursed rubble limestone walls with block and start brick quoins. Round oculus windows to gables with red brick surrounds and stained glass. Segmental-arched vehicular entrance to road elevation with block-and-start brick surround and replacement double-leaf timber battened doors having original iron runner for sliding doors. Other doors and windows are recent additions. Gateway to south-west of building formerly part of operation of level crossing.

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 high, 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 Cloonbeg.

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

Name

Cloonbeg · Cluain Beag

Area

1,294,475 m² (129.45 ha, 319.87 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Bencorr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bencorr electoral division: 219 people in 55 households; 72% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinafad, Ballynahinch, Derryadd West, Killeen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cloonbeg 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.