Parkbeg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkbeg, from 2,570 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 219,120 m² (21.91 ha, 54.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Parkbeg 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 Parkbeg 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 Parkbeg.

Recorded monuments

• LA001-001 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on 1888 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; an irregular enclosure (max. dims. c. 60m ENE-WSW). No visible surface remains. Depicted on first edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure and on the current edition as a semi-circular or D-shaped enclosure. No surface remains visible at time of inspection as field was in tillage. Shape of monument on first edition of the OS 6-inch map would suggest that it may have been a moated site. Subrectangular enclosure (approx. dims. 50m E-W; 44m N-S) with straight side at NE (L 45m) which is intersected at NW by a field boundary now removed running on a NE-SW axis. Site was probably levelled when field boundary removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Parkbeg.

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 Parkbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Parkbeg · An Pháirc Bheag

Area

976,443 m² (97.64 ha, 241.28 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Cappalough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappalough electoral division: 361 people in 116 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylevin (Co. Offaly), Danganbeg (Co. Offaly), Moneyquid, Roskeen

Placenames

Parkbeg 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.