Beagh More

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh More, from 324 m² to 117,744 m² (11.77 ha, 29.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Beagh More 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 Beagh More 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 Beagh More.

Recorded monuments

• LE034-003001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located on the W bank of a N-S stream at the base of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. St Patrick’s Well, which is named on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map, is now disused and overgrown with no visible structure. Rounds were performed there until c. 1900 and it had a rag tree in the 1930s (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0288, 73). A granite bullaun stone (034-00301-) (dims 0.8m x 0.7m; H 0.4m) with a single basin (dims 0.4m x 0.35m; D 0.12m) is c. 20m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended; 9 December, 2019

• LE034-003002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Located on the W bank of a N-S stream at the base of the E-facing slope of a drumlin, and c. 20m from the holy well (LE034-003001-). A sandstone bullaun stone (dims 0.8m x 0.7m; H 0.4) has a single basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.12m) on its upper surface. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December, 2019

• LE034-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise toward the top of the E-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 48m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) and hedge NW-N and SSE-SW (Wth of base 2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.6m) SW-NW and N-SE (Wth 2.5m; max. H 1.7m) with a hedge. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Beagh More.

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 Beagh More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Beagh More · An Bheitheach Mhór

Area

2,190,795 m² (219.08 ha, 541.36 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Gortermone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortermone electoral division: 289 people in 106 households; 96% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduffy (Co. Longford), Beagh Beg, Cornaghy, Drumderglin, Drumury (Co. Longford), Farmullagh (Co. Longford), Mullanadarragh, Tully South

Placenames

Beagh More 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.