Skeaghbeg

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeaghbeg, from 24 m² to 64,308 m² (6.43 ha, 15.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Skeaghbeg 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.

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 295sqm (House) & 60sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211241

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 Skeaghbeg.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-218 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge in reclaimed pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m) and on 3rd ed. (1914) as a roughly subcircular field. All that survives is a circular area (D 26m) defined by a low scarp. Field clearance has been piled at S side. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roofed addition to rear, and single-storey recent house attached to west and linked to older building. Pitched thatched roof with wide eaves and low rendered chimneystack. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to front and some two-over-two pane to rear. Square-headed glazed timber door.

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 Skeaghbeg, about 1 in 5 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 Skeaghbeg.

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

Name

Skeaghbeg · An Sceach Bheag

Area

473,905 m² (47.39 ha, 117.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkilvery, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 218 households in the Killeany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballycolgan, Caltragh, Liss, Rafwee

Placenames

Skeaghbeg 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.