Carn Beg

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn Beg, from 129 m² to 108,296 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Carn 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.

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  NEW RAW WATER PUMP HOUSE, FILTER BUILDING, BACKWASH TANK AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22167

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21149

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17930

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 Carn Beg.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-066 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on elevated ground in undulating terrain. A lintelled opening to the souterrain is visible at ground level, The opening is little more than a narrow horizontal slit or gap (Wth 1m NNW−SSE; H 0.25m) at ground level, partly blocked with loose stones. The lintel covering the opening consists of a large horizontal limestone slab (L 1.2m NNW−SSE; D 0.35-0.4m), visible in section beneath c. 0.2-0.3m of sod/topsoil. The gap is too narrow to allow easy access to the souterrain, however, it allows a glimpse of a chamber or passage extending to WSW or W. From the opening there is a steep, stone-strewn slope to the floor of the chamber. The walls are of drystone construction and the roof consists of a row of flat limestone slabs. Loose stones lie on the chamber floor. Immediately in front of/to E of the opening there is a shallow depression (Wth c. 1m NNW−SSE; c. 3m ENW−WSW), bordered at E by a close-set line (L 3-5m NNW−SSE) of low partly sod-covered stones, barely protrude from the ground surface on a roughly NW−SE axis. Their significance is uncertain; in parts they resemble wall footings (Wth c. 0.8-1m), possibly remnants of a wall associated with the souterrain or with an enclosure associated with the souterrain, or possibly remnants of a later field wall. Some of the stones may simply be part of a natural seam of bedrock. Immediately to S of the souterrain is an oval field clearance cairn (9.5m NW−SE; 6.6m NE−SW; H 1.3m) consisting of a domed, broadly-slumped heap of loose stones. A second roughly circular field clearance cairn (diam. c. 5m; H 0.5m at W, 1.5m at E) is located c. 5m NNE of the souterrain. It is heaped against a SE-facing slope so that it has a broad slump on the E side. An account of the souterrain published in the Irish Press newspaper on 20th June 1933 described it as a roughly oval, drystone structure (L c. 7m; Wth 3-3.5m; H c. 2m) with slightly corbelled drystone walls supporting flat roofing slabs (SMR file). Attached images: MA093-066----_01.JPG Opening to souterrain viewed from E MA093-066----_02.JPG Opening to souterrain viewed from SE MA093-066----_03.JPG Possible wall to E of souterrain MA093-066----_04.JPG chamber interior viewed from E MA093-066----_05.JPG Two field clearance cairns adjacent to souterrain, viewed from NE Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carn 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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Carn Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Carn Beg · An Carn Beag

Area

664,313 m² (66.43 ha, 164.16 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn More, Cartron North, Coolnaha North, Crossbeg

Placenames

Carn 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.