Laragh Beg

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh Beg, from 35 m² to 484,876 m² (48.49 ha, 119.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Laragh 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  A 10-year planning permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 239 hectares consisting of the following: 1,031,319 sq. m. of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 32 no. MV stations on associated hardstanding; new internal access tracks; underground cabling and ducting including along public roads L7138, L7141, L3110, L7140, L31085, L3108, L7132, L7131, and L7129; new access points onto public roads L7138, L3110, L7141, L7129, L71383, and upgrades to existing access points are proposed on public roads L7141, L3110, L7140, L7132, L7129, and L71383; limited alterations to existing stone walls including the creation or widening of access openings and reinstatement works; security fencing; CCTV; drainage infrastructure; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; Horizontal Directional Drilling beneath the disused railway line; temporary construction compounds; and all associated ancillary site development works. The proposed development will be operational for 40 years. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661362

• 8 Jun 2022Unconditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 270 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22746

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  of existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212339

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 270 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17500

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 Laragh Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laragh Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, over disused Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Coursed squared and snecked rubble stone walls rising uninterrupted to parapets with squared and perpendicular snecked rubble stone flanking walls having rounded coping stones to east and west. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared and snecked stone to spandrel panels with flat coping stones to parapets. Metal railings from end of bridge to adjoining fields.

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, over disused Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Coursed squared and snecked rubble stone rising uninterrupted to parapets with splayed squared and snecked rubble stone flanking walls having round-headed coping stones to east and west. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared and snecked stone to spandrel panels with chamfered coping stones.

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 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 Laragh Beg.

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

Name

Laragh Beg · An Láithreach Beag

Area

1,678,097 m² (167.81 ha, 414.67 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Belleville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Belleville electoral division: 670 people in 223 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowreagh East, Cloonnavaddoge, Farravaun, Laragh More

Placenames

Laragh 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.