Kilbeg

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg, from 9 m² to 103,741 m² (10.37 ha, 25.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Kilbeg 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.

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a walled silage slab & manure pit. Gross floor area of works: 423 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25100

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) retain existing dwelling house as constructed on site - including a. existing floor levels; b. existing elevations c. existing alterations to internal floor plans. (2) To retain existing effluent treatment tank and percolation area on site. (3) To alter condition No. 11 of the previous grant of permission attached to PL. Ref. No. 03/419, which relates to the occupancy clause. (4) To retain existing domestic garage as constructed on site. (5) To retain existing site boundary from that previously granted. Planning reference number (03/419) refers. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 292 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211888

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  to [A] Demolish Existing Dwelling House and [B] construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 176 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201243

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a four bay single slatted cattle shed with lay back area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 261 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19465

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilbeg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilbeg.

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 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 Kilbeg.

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

Name

Kilbeg · An Choill Bheag

Area

962,250 m² (96.23 ha, 237.78 acres)

Civil parish

Cargin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhale, Cargin

Placenames

Kilbeg 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.