Killagh Beg

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killagh Beg, from 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 526,571 m² (52.66 ha, 130.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killagh Beg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killagh Beg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killagh Beg.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-099 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating marshy grassland. A fairly well-preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 18.7m, E-W 13m) defined by a low scarp. A CBG (GA086-099001-) lies within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-155 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (ENE-WSW c. 30.2m, NNW-SSE 26.5m), in fair condition, defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank from SSW through W to NNW. A field bank curving from NE to SSE may follow the line of the outer bank. Another field bank cuts the monument at SSW and SSE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to S of it. In SW quadrant there is a rectangular grassy hollow (L 6.4m, Wth 1.7m-2.5m) up to 0.8m in depth, its long axis running ENE-WSW; a possible souterrain. A ringfort (GA086-156----) lies 150m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-155001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-156 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  At NW end of a low hill, 150m SEof a ringfort (Mo. 1803). Well-preserved subcircularrath (E-W 32.6m, N-S 31.6m) defined by two banksand an intervening fosse. There is an entrance at ESE. In SW quadrant there is an oval depression (L 8.8m, Wth 3.9m max.) averaging 0.9m in depth, its long axisrunning E-W; a possible souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-156001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 48.1m, E-W 45.6m) defined by a stone-lined bank from N to E, and by a scarp from ESE to SSW. A gap at NE appears modern. The W half of the monument has been extensively quarried, and a field wall cuts it at SSW and SE. The interior contains a graveyard (GA086-157002-). There is also a possible souterrain, in NW quadrant, indicated by a rectangular nettle-filled hollow (L 10.1m, Wth c. 2.5m) running NNW-SS and averaging 0.7m in depth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-157001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-157002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In S half of a ringfort (GA086-157----). An unenclosed overgrown area (E-W; L 9.5m, Wth 5.9m) containing many small set limestone blocks indicating graves oriented E-W; possibly a CBG. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-158 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-163 Quarry
  Description

  In meadowland on a N-S running glacial ridge. A hachured feature marked on the 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a large circular depression: a disused gravel pit. 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: 22 July 2014

Architectural heritage

• Killaghbeg House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having two-bay east side elevation. Currently disused. Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut-stone sills with internal shutters visible. Segmental-headed opening to front (south) elevation with cut and carved limestone surround having plinths, with square-headed door opening recesed within lobby, having timber panelled door with sidelights having panels to lower parts, and overlights. Cut limestone threshold. Yard to north-east with detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, comprising L-plan outbuilding with three-bay range to south, and multiple-bay range to east end of north elevation. Hipped slate roofs with yellow brick chimneystacks and exposed rafter ends, dressed stone walls, square-headed openings with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, and segmental-arched carriage arch with cut-stone voussoirs and block-and-start surround. Multiple-bay outbuilding to north, having hipped slate roof with catslide roof to rear, exposed rafter ends, dressed stone walls, and square-headed window openings with cut stone block-and-start surrounds and lintels.

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

At the centre of the townland of Killagh Beg, about 1 in 20 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 Killagh Beg.

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.

No address of the register names Killagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Killagh Beg · Cill Achaidh Bheag

Area

1,732,159 m² (173.22 ha, 428.03 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killallaghtan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 178 households in the Killallaghtan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Ballymabilla, Cappaveha, Corraneena, Hazelfort, Killagh More

Placenames

Killagh Beg 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.