# Carrig Beg, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castletown, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Charraig Bheag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,630,011 m² (163 ha, 402.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,035 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castletown, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/castletown.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Oola, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32417 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120579 - Centre: latitude 52.57559, longitude -8.259884 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig Beg, from 1,024 m² to 270,546 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1650854: 270,546 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650854.md - Parcel 1642068: 246,508 m² (24.65 ha, 60.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642068.md - Parcel 1625974: 188,981 m² (18.9 ha, 46.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625974.md - Parcel 1625889: 174,433 m² (17.44 ha, 43.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625889.md - Parcel 1625979: 162,103 m² (16.21 ha, 40.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625979.md - Parcel 1642167: 118,273 m² (11.83 ha, 29.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642167.md - Parcel 1658089: 110,423 m² (11.04 ha, 27.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658089.md - Parcel 1627521: 102,846 m² (10.28 ha, 25.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627521.md - Parcel 1625892: 93,649 m² (9.36 ha, 23.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625892.md - Parcel 1642067: 80,406 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642067.md - Parcel 1645128: 21,379 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645128.md - Parcel 4928127: 13,967 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928127.md - Parcel 3350327: 13,537 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3350327.md - Parcel 1639297: 4,532 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639297.md - Parcel 3267563: 4,437 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267563.md - Parcel 3267564: 2,953 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267564.md - Parcel 1602022: 2,808 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602022.md - Parcel 1588955: 2,756 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588955.md - Parcel 3267565: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267565.md - Parcel 1629913: 2,381 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629913.md - Parcel 1615877: 2,379 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615877.md - Parcel 1590252: 2,349 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590252.md - Parcel 1619621: 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619621.md - Parcel 1612444: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612444.md - Parcel 1641256: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641256.md - Parcel 1589423: 1,024 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589423.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carrig Beg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 14 Nov 2025, Limerick County Council 2561181: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a Single Storey Dwelling, Treatment Plant and Polishing Filter Bed, Entrance and all ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561181/0 - 24 Sept 2025, Limerick County Council 2560967: N/a. Permission, 1 home. a single storey dwelling, treatment plant and polishing filter bed, entrance and all ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560967/0 - 12 Nov 2021, Limerick County Council 211565: Refused. Permission. a 10-year permission and 35 year operation for a solar farm on four land parcels as described herein; North Parcel(Gortnakistin townland) approximately 23.78 hectares, Central Parcel(Ballyvalode & Keeloges townlands) approximately 43.49 hectares, South Central Parcel(Gortyvahane and Moanroe townlands) approximately 34.7 hectares, South Parcel(Garryduff, Moanroe, Moanoola and Kilmacogue townland) approximately 39.27 hectares. The Central Parcel, South Central Parcel and South Parcel are collectively referred to as the Main Solar Farm; a route corridor of 0.58 hectares for an underground internal network cable along the R507 and L5040 public roads for approximately 600 metres and within the solar farm lands for approximately 1,260 metres. The total site area for the proposed development is approximately 141.8 hectares. The proposed development on these parcels comprises of 755,000sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks; associated drainage infrastructure; site entrances to the R507 public road(site entrance to main solar farm) and the L5040 public local road(North Parcel); CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. Works for the internal network cable comprise trenching for an underground medium voltage electrical cable and associated joint bays and infrastructure, for a distance of approximately 560 metres on the R507 Regional Road, approximately 100 metres on the L5040 Local Road and approximately 1,260m within the solar farm lands. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development(SID) planning application provision of a 110kV electrical substation with electrical control building, associated compound with palisade fence and 2no. overhead line masts, which is to be located within the main solar farm, will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála in due course. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211565/0 - 4 Sept 2020, Limerick County Council 20879: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an extension to first floor bedroom and new pitched roof over existing single storey flat roof with all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20879/0 - 23 Jun 2017, Limerick County Council 17589: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house site entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17589/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI025-004001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI025-004001-. Situated in grassland, with Coonagh castle (LI025-002002-) and Cahernahallia River 215m and 160m to W respectively. Mentioned in the 1302 Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Diocese of Emly as the 'Chapel de Novo Castro [Casteltown]', listed in the Deanery of Tipperary (Cal. doc. Ire., 288). Present remains consist of an undivided single cell church with broken out doorway at W end of S wall. The church is built with rubble walls with long and short dressed limestone quoins. Only the lower chamfered jambs on the W side of the doorway remain intact with pyramidal-shaped chamfer stop visible. A hanging eye is visible on W side of doorway with drawbar slot opposite on E side of doorway embrasure. No evidence of a window in the W gable which appears to have been partially rebuilt with a row of putlog holes or wooden beam holes visible in external face. A broken out single light window is visible at E end of S wall. A large portion of the central section of the N wall is no longer upstanding. A pointed dressed stone piscina is visible at E end of S wall. The unglazed dressed limestone twin light ogee-headed E window is missing its central mullion and has spandrels decorated with a three leaf possible oak plant motif. This window stands inside a dressed chamfered pointed arch window embrasure of late medieval date. A post-1700 buttress has been built up against external face of E gable close to NE angle. Castletown church described in 1840 as 'the supposed, ruin of a Friary. The walls are about 10 feet [3m] high, and in length and breadth respectively about 40 feet [12m] and 20 feet [6m]. It is now used as a burial-place, though but few interments take place in it' (OSNB, 353). The Ordnance Survey letters described the church ruins as; ‘The old Church of this Parish is still in tolerable preservation, but not more than four centuries old. It is forty nine feet [15m] in length on the inside and twenty feet [6m] in breadth. Its side walls are about ten feet [3m] in height and three feet [0.9m] in thickness and well built. The east gable contains a window which is pointed on the inside, but square at the top on the outside, where it measures about six feet [2m] in height and eighteen inches [0.45m] in width. The south wall contains a narrow window placed at the distance of three feet five inches [1m] from the east gable and measuring on the outside four feet four inches [1.3m] in height and five and a half inches [0.13m] in width and widening to three feet on the inside [0.9m]. The doorway, which was placed on the south wall at the distance of ten feet [3m] from the west gable, is destroyed except a small corner of its west side. The west gable is destroyed down to the height of the side walls and there is a breach in the north wall, but all the rest are in very good preservation. This building was never divided into a nave and choir’ (OSL, 130-1). Westropp (1904-5, 384) recorded the following details on Castletown; ‘A parish in Coonagh, named from the MacBriens' Castle [LI025-002002-]. Fabric - It is of the fifteenth century, 49 feet [15m] long; the walls being 10 feet [3m] by 3 feet [0.9m]. The east window has a pointed light and oblong splay. The south wall has a slit near its east end, and a defaced door; the west end fell before 1840 (O.S.L. 9, p. 430)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 January 2019 - LI025-004002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI025-004002-. Situated in grassland, with Coonagh castle (LI025-002002-) and Cahernahallia River 215m and 160m to W respectively. Castletown church forms N boundary of small rectangular-shaped graveyard described in 1840 as 'the supposed, ruin of a Friary. The walls are about 10 feet [3m] high, and in length and breadth respectively about 40 feet [12m] and 20 feet [6m]. It is now used as a burial-place, though but few interments take place in it' (OSNB, 353). Ruins of church stand in the N quadrant of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 25m N-S x 32m E-W) enclosed by a post and wire fence with stone wall and entrance gate at S end of short stretch of E wall. Cluster of low uninscribed stones to S of church mark burial plots, 19th century inscribed memorial to the O'Brien family of Coona inside W end of church. No evidence of any low stones or possible gravemarkers in area to N and W of church. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 March 2019 - LI025-038: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI025-038----. On grassland. Cropmark of possible circular-shaped enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 8 September 2020 - LI025-057: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI025-057----. In poorly drained grassland. Outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021 - LI025-058: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI025-058----. In poorly drained grassland. Outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrig Beg. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Carrig Beg, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrig Beg. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrig-beg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrig-beg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrig-beg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrig Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrig More: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrig-more.md - Cloonlusk: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonlusk.md - Coolbaun: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolbaun-120732.md - Gortnakistin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnakistin.md - Moanduff: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moanduff.md - Portane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/portane.md - Reask: https://everytownland.com/limerick/reask.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrig-beg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/carrig-beg