Cloonbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeacanty, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Beag
- Area
- 21.3 ha
- 53 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 8,696 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbeg, from 67 m² to 58,414 m² (5.84 ha, 14.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Nov 2025Conditional
for the construction of side and first floor extensions to an existing dwelling, including minor elevation alterations and for all ancillary services and site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561723
4 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 237 sqm(H), 50.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560891
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 Cloonbeg.
Recorded monuments
- GA123-037 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a hill in grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 29m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A gap (Wth 1.2m) at SW may be original. A souterrain (GA123-037001-) is incorporated into the enclosing element at SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017
- GA123-037001 Souterrain
Description
Incorporated into the SW section of the enclosing bank of a rath (GA123-037----). Apart from one roof lintel, this drystone-built souterrain (Wth 1m), of indeterminate length, has almost completely collapsed. It runs NE-SW. Immediately inside a breach at its NE end, a small recess extends northwards off the NW side-wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonbeg.
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 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_838 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonbeg · Cluain Beag
- Area
- 212,671 m² (21.27 ha, 52.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeacanty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Kiltartan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltartan electoral division: 859 people in 290 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh, Ballycahalan, Cloon, Inchaboy North, Islandmore, Turra Beg
- 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.