Feaghbeg
Feaghbeg is a townland in the civil parish of Fahy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Fiodh Beag.
- Area
- 302 ha
- 746 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 33,453 m² (3.35 ha, 8.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feaghbeg, from 47 m² to 744,058 m² (74.41 ha, 183.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Feaghbeg 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 Oct 2024Conditional
for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing two storey dwelling and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 13.20 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24313
28 Jul 2017Conditional
for a change of design of my existing planning permission under planning reference number 15/524 for a private dwelling house, on site effluent treatment plant, garage and all associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 277.0sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171153
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Moorfield Bog NHA 001303
Recorded monuments
- GA108-107 Quarry
Description
On the NW face of a hummock in grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014
- GA108-108 Quarry
Description
On the W face of a ridge in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a small disused gravel pit defined by a grass-covered hollow. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014
- GA108-109 Quarry
Description
On a hummock in undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a quarry defined by an irregularly shaped hollow. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014
- GA108-110 Quarry
Description
A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014
- GA108-111 Quarry
Description
On the E face of a hummock in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Feaghbeg.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Feaghbeg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Feaghbeg.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Feaghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Feaghbeg · An Fiodh Beag
- Area
- 3,019,710 m² (301.97 ha, 746.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fahy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Eyrecourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 468 people lived in 190 households in the Eyrecourt electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 12% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Craughwell, Dooros, Feaghmore Eighter, Moaty, Moorfield or Gortnamona
- Placenames
- Feaghbeg 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.