Amogan Beg
Amogan Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Áth Mhongáin Beag.
- Area
- 92.4 ha
- 228 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,896 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Amogan Beg, from 66 m² to 298,822 m² (29.88 ha, 73.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Amogan 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
15 Mar 2024Conditional
the conversion of an existing disused dwelling house into a storage area and construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and proprietary wastewater treatment system, site entrance and associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2494
22 Aug 2019Conditional
an extension to the side of the existing dwelling and alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 19831
17 May 2017Conditional
permission to (A) construct rear extension & new front porch extension to existing house (B) elevational changes (C) construct new domestic garage (D) decommission existing septic tank and install new mechanical aerations unit and soil polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17446
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Amogan Beg.
Recorded monuments
- LI020-116 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, in gently undulating terrain. Kink in field boundary W-NW suggests arc of enclosure; faint cropmark on aerial photograph (LAS) suggests continuation of line of enclosure from E-W (diam. c. 30m). No trace of enclosure evident when inspected on the ground. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-120 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI029-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on SE-facing slope below brow of low rise, immediately N of public road. Circular area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1.25m). Bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 3m), heavily masked by dense overgrowth, is best preserved along SW arc. Fosse widens and shallows along E side (Wth 4m; D 0.45m). Break in bank (Wth 2.8m) at WNW is matched by recently constructed causeway across fosse. Band of short yellow grass (Wth c. 3m) runs along outer edge of fosse NW->NE. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. A field boundary skirts outer edge of fosse on E side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Amogan 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
- At the centre of the townland of Amogan Beg, 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 Amogan Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Amogan Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Amogan Beg · Áth Mhongáin Beag
- Area
- 923,787 m² (92.38 ha, 228.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dromard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 916 people lived in 300 households in the Dromard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Amogan More, Ballycannon, Ballymacave, Clogh West, Croagh Commons, Newpark
- Placenames
- Amogan 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.