Ballybeg

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 12,272 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres) to 253,181 m² (25.32 ha, 62.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybeg 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 Ballybeg 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 Ballybeg.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-014001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a low ridge in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a tree-covered irregular enclosure formed at the junction of a number of field boundaries. It is represented on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) as a circular tree-covered enclosure. It consists of a low hillock (40m NNE-SSW; 38m WNW-ESE) enclosed from E-S-N by a bank of earth and stone and elsewhere defined by a scarp, both of which have been extensively modified and incorporated into the field boundary. From S-W-N there is a shallow fosse at the outer foot of the bank. No entrance is recognisable. At the inner face of the bank at W are the remains of a subrectangular enclosure (LF023-014002-) In addition, a report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a house site (LF023-014003-) at the inner face of the bank at N. In all probability this is a designed landscape feature associated with Richmount Hill house, c. 320m to SE. Another landscape feature (LF021-015----) lies 220m to SSW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-014002 Enclosure
  Description

  Within Ballybeg tree-ring (LF023-014001-). At the inner face of the bank at W are the remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure (6.3m E-W; 5.8m N-S) of uncertain date. It is defined by a bank of earth and stone (H 1m) and access is via a gap (Wth 1.6m) at E. There is a second possible enclosure (LF023-014003-) to NNE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-014003 Enclosure
  Description

  Within Ballybeg tree-ring (LF010-023001-). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a house site (LF023-014003-) at the inner face of the bank at N. A possible rectangular enclosure (c. 6.1m NNE-SSW; c. 3.5m ENE-WSW) can be traced, albeit with difficultly, extending into the interior from the inner face of the bank at NNW. The other three sides are defined by fragmentary remains of grassed-over loose stone. A short length of possible walling (L 0.3m) on the ENE side is the best preserved (wall T. 0.2m). Immediately ENE of the possible enclosure is a small, low, approx. circular, largely grassed over mound of stones (2m ENE-WSW; 1.9m NNW-SSE). It is likely that these features are associated with the construction of the field boundary rather than enclosures or structures. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-015 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. An 18th-century house, named ‘Richmount Hill’, is c. 195m to the SE. Marked on the 1837 and 1914 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a large roughly subrectangular tree plantation (int. dims. c. 67m N–S ; c. 41m E–W). It is defined by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a tree-lined scarp (H 0.5m) with evidence of external stone facing visible in places. There is no evidence of an entrance. An enclosure/building (LF023-015001-) lies in the W half of the interior. (SMR file 1976) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 13 November 2012

• LF023-015001 Enclosure
  Description

  Within the W half of a designed landscape feature (LF023-015----). Marked as a roughly D-shaped enclosure on the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch map with the straight side, running NNW-SSE, defined by the limits of the tree plantation. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as a ‘square structure’ defined by grass-covered stony banks (H1.5-2m); possibly the site of a castle or later building. It consists of an earthen bank enclosing a sunken square-shaped interior; there is no evidence of any enclosing element on the W side. The entrance is not apparent. The high steep-sided external face of the bank on the S side suggests that the enclosure may have been partially quarried or cut away in the 18th or 19th centuries. The dating of this monument is uncertain. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 November 2012

• LF023-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a knoll in gently undulating pasture. A raised oval area (c. 43m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2.4m) with a wide, deep, partially rock-cut, external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1m), which is identifiable only from SW-N-NNE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballybeg, about 1 in 20 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

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballybeg · An Baile Beag

Area

1,006,087 m² (100.61 ha, 248.61 acres)

Civil parish

Taghsheenod, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygibbagh, Carn, Carrickedmond, Keel, Knocknaskea, Screeboge

Placenames

Ballybeg 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.