Pallas Beg

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallas Beg, from 251 m² to 229,636 m² (22.96 ha, 56.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Pallas 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.

• 19 May 2020Conditional

  a 5 bay slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank, 4 bay round roof hay shed with lean-to for machinery storage together with all associated site works - Covid-19 (b)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20110

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 Pallas Beg.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-111 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On low-lying ground on the S bank of the Inny River. Depicted as a roughly sub-rectangular/trapezoidal earthwork with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An eel weir is shown opposite it. Known locally as the site of a castle, it may have been one of the strongholds of the Clann Murchadha branch of the O'Ferral family who ruled over southern Longford (Verstaten Veach 2010, 58), but see also the unclassified castle (LF027-051----) in the adjoining townland of Pallas More. It is possible that this was an earlier castle that was abandoned when the latter castle was built. A raised subrectangular earthwork (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a steep scarp (H 2–3m) with a wide, deep external fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 6.4m; D 1.1m). Traces of a possible ramp (Wth 3m) across the fosse at SE may mark the original entrance. A possible outer bank may be preserved in the field boundary running along the W side of the monument. The N sector of the monument has been destroyed due to OPW river-drainage works and is occupied by a massive spoil heap. Some quarrying has occurred at NW. A report in 1976 (SMR File) recorded an irregular stony area in the interior at W. The N and W walls of a building (ext. dims. 13m E-W; c. 7m N-S), possibly a levelled castle, are evident here. The N wall (L c. 13m E-W; Wall T 1.8m; H 0.6m) is better preserved and sections of the external face of its mortared rubble wall survive. The W wall (L 7m) runs along the W edge of the earthwork. An extensive series of small rectangular fields are visible on aerial photographs (SMR file) c. 180m to the SE but no visible surface traces survive as they have been recently levelled as a result of land-improvement works. This monument is similar morphologically to the ringwork castle (LF016-018003-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 October 2012

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1774 (ZIP).

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 Pallas Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Pallas Beg · An Phailís Bheag

Area

905,353 m² (90.54 ha, 223.72 acres)

Civil parish

Forgney, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Forgney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Forgney electoral division: 3,066 people in 189 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan, Kilcurry, Kilnacarrow, Pallas More, Rath

Placenames

Pallas 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.