Ummeras Beg

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummeras Beg, from 1,078 m² to 242,898 m² (24.29 ha, 60.02 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 Ummeras 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.

• 25 Nov 2024Conditional

  for a detached single storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461248

• 22 Jan 2021Refused

  5 No. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 169m and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas; 1 no. on-site electrical substation; 1 no. temporary construction compound; all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site electrical substation; provision of new site access tracks and associated drainage; erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of up to 100m in height; and all associated site development works, ancillary works and equipment. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years and an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. A concurrent planning application is being submitted to Offaly County Council in relation to the elements of the proposed development that are within County Offaly, which consist of road/junction accommodation works to facilitate the turbine deliveries associated with the proposed wind farm development in Co. Kildare. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development. All within the townlands

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2184

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 Ummeras Beg.

Recorded monuments

• KD021-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on slight rise of ground near summit of low hill (OD 247) with townland boundary with Ummeras More 70m to N. Cropmark of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 45m) defined by a two concentric ditches are visible on ESRI aerial imagery. No surface remains visible. See attached images provided courtesy of William Anderson Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by William Anderson Date of upload: 18 May 2020

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ummeras Beg, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2284 (ZIP).

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 Ummeras Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ummeras Beg

Area

659,470 m² (65.95 ha, 162.96 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Quinsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

166 people lived in 55 households in the Quinsborough electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolatogher, Coolsickin or Quinsborough, Ummeras More

Placenames

Ummeras 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.