Cuilbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish An Choill Bheag
- Area
- 35.2 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilbeg, from 1,196 m² to 96,526 m² (9.65 ha, 23.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Cuilbeg 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
28 Aug 2025Conditional
of a domestic garage adjacent to the existing dwelling house
Retention · Galway County Council, 2561200
29 Jun 2021Conditional
for revisions to an extension granted under PP 19/751.The development will consist of the construction of an extension and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained is 79 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211156
17 May 2019Conditional
for an extension to existing home. The development will consist of the construction of an extension and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 63 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19751
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 Cuilbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuilbeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuilbeg.
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 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 Cuilbeg.
- 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 Cuilbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cuilbeg · An Choill Bheag
- Area
- 352,336 m² (35.23 ha, 87.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Levally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Levally electoral division: 437 people in 148 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Meelick East, Pollaphuca, Polldorragha, Ryehill, Tonrevagh
- Placenames
- Cuilbeg 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.