Togher Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Killererin, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Tóchar Beag
- Area
- 91 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 3,202 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher Beg, from 41 m² to 298,213 m² (29.82 ha, 73.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Togher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Aug 2020Conditional
to construct a Slatted Shed with a Loose Bedded Area and Ancillary Concrete and retention of a Hardcore Set-down Area for Agricultural Machinery & Fodder. Gross floor space of proposed works: 265.92 msq. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 830 msq.
Permission · Galway County Council, 201183
27 Mar 2019N/a
to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258.24 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19439
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA044-093001 Designed landscape feature
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.
- GA044-093002 Designed landscape feature
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.
- GA044-093003 Quarry
Description
In reclaimed pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a quarry 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: 9 July 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Togher Beg.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Togher 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Togher Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Togher Beg · An Tóchar Beag
- Area
- 909,610 m² (90.96 ha, 224.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killererin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Killererin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killererin electoral division: 770 people in 271 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addergoole, Carrowmoneen, Coolrevagh, Grange, Pollbaun, Togher More
- Placenames
- Togher 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.