Rower Beg
Rower Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Robhar Beag.
- Area
- 101.4 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 155,903 m² (15.59 ha, 38.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rower Beg, from 9,811 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres) to 395,296 m² (39.53 ha, 97.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Rower 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
9 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing house, alterations to front elevation consisting of new roof profiles to the single & two storey porch projections, extension of existing bay windows to front of house, together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360568
12 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of a new dwelling with three sheds, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, splayed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201161
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Adare Woodlands 000429
Recorded monuments
- LI021-120 Enclosure
Description
Noted as cropmark of possible trapazoidal enclosure in Adare Bypass Constraint Study Report (Ref. No. 30; AP 1:4,000 OS3 1199). No evident trace of enclosure in level field of pasture. This 'cropmark' may be the result of agricultural activity rather than representing a sub-surface feature. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 9 August 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rower 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 Rower 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_781 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rower Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Rower Beg · Robhar Beag
- Area
- 1,013,855 m² (101.39 ha, 250.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Adare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Adare South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,225 people lived in 730 households in the Adare South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Adare, Baurnalicka, Clonshire Beg, Copay, Cummeen, Garraunboy, Kilknockan, Rower More
- Placenames
- Rower 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.