Crossbeg

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossbeg, from 267 m² to 172,255 m² (17.23 ha, 42.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Crossbeg 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.

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to demolish agricultural shed and part of existing dwelling house, renovate existing dwelling house, construct extension, alter elevations and install new septic tank and percolation area all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560363

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22167

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 Crossbeg.

Recorded monuments

• MA082-033 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, located on a prominent rise overlooking Crossbeg Lough, which is 120m to SW and is now drained and converted to pasture. A roughly circular platform (overall diam. 7-8m; top, c. 4m; H 0.85m) of earth and stone, with a hint of a raised internal lip (Wth c. 1m), and enclosed externally by a fosse (Wth1.2-1.8m; D 0.2-0.3m) which is evident as a shallow depression. Sections of the fosse at NE, SE and W are entirely silted up or are filled with field clearance stones. The mound is partly obscured by gorse and brambles. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-034 Mound
  Description

  Located c. 20m to NW of an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-) known as Disert Bibar. This monument is not shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1916 edition as a small circular hachured feature (diam. 12-15m), named 'Corheen'. When inspected in 1988, it consisted of a low, roughly oval, flat-topped mound (17m E–W; 13m N–S), which appeared more likely to be a platform for a house or structure, rather than a burial mound (SMR file: OPW field notes 1988). It has been destroyed; a commercial motor garage overlies the location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035001 Church
  Description

  Within an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-). Indicated as ‘Church (Site of)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. The church is located on a raised area (c. 25m N–S; c. 20m E–W) in the centre of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The remains are scant. Wall footings (L 7-8m; Wth 0.7m; H 0.1m) define the S side of a roughly rectangular hollow (c. 6m E–W; c. 5m N–S) which may preserve the outline of the church. Lying within this rectangular hollow is a bullaun stone (MA082-035005-) and a possible standing stone (MA082-035006-). Another church (MA082-035002-) is located c. 30m to NE. A single hawthorn tree stands to NE of the hollow. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035002 Church
  Description

  On the E edge of an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-). This church is indicated as ‘Ch. (in Rns.)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as an E−W rectangular building, defined by walls on the S, W and N sides, but open on the E side which coincides with the enclosing wall of the ecclesiastical enclosure. A slightly sunken rectangular area (10m E–W; 11m N–S), outlined by low scarps, preserves the outline of the church. There is another church (MA082-035001-) 30m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035003 Graveyard
  Description

  In an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-) with two churches (MA082-035001-; MA082-035001-). Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; indicated as ‘Burial Gd. (Site of)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. The interior of the ecclesiastical enclosure was used as a burial ground. No graves are now evident. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise in undulating terrain, overlooked by a hill at NW. It overlooks Crossbeg Lough, now drained, 300m to N, and another lake, Crossard Lough is located 260m to E. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1916 edition as a hachured enclosure called ‘Disert Bibar’, within which a church ‘Site of’ (MA082-035001) and a church ‘in Rns’ ( MA082-035002), a burial ground MA082-035003) and a bullaun stone (MA082-035005) are indicated. This early medieval ecclesiastical enclosure consists of a sub-circular area (91m WNW–ESE; 91m NNW–SSE) enclosed by a low, sod-covered stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m). The stone bank, which probably represents a collapsed wall, has been partly levelled at NW–SE; it is overlain at S by a straight E–W field fence, and at SSW–N is incorporated into another stone field fence (Wth 1m) which respects the curve of the enclosure. Shallow remnants of a field ditch (Wth 0.8m) are evident on the inner face of the field fence at S and W. Immediately outside the enclosing wall at W–N a low scarp (Wth 1.7m; H 0.5m) respecting the curve of the enclosure; it is unclear if this is part of the primary enclosing element of the enclosure. The enclosure straddles a natural rise, incorporating level elevated ground in the W half, with a marked slope down from there to NE–E (drop in height c. 1.7m), and a more gentle slope down to SE. Slightly to SE of centre, straddling this break of slope, there is a raised subrectangular area (c. 25m N–S; c. 20m E–W) defined at SW–NNE by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) which changes at NE–S to a much less distinct scarp (H c. 1.2m) that merges with the natural fall of ground. Located on this raised area, is a church (MA082-035002), indicated as ‘Church (Site of) on the 1916 OS 6-inch map, and visible now as a slight, roughly rectangular hollow. Lying within the hollow, is a bullaun stone (MA082-035005) and a possible standing stone (MA082-035006). A single hawthorn tree stand at the NE edge of the hollow. A number of low undulations/sod-covered stones banks (Wth 1.5-1.7m; H 0.4-0.6) radiating from the central raised area, creating internal divisions within the large enclosure. Two such divisions, one extending to NNW and the other to NE, separate the level elevated W quadrant of the interior from the lower, sloping ground in the N–NE quadrant. In the E half of the interior, more ephemeral divisions outline a rectangular area (23m E–W, 11m N–S) extending from the central raised area to the perimeter wall at E. This rectangular area is slightly sunken and is sub-divided by a N–S cross wall, surviving only as a slight scarp, into two unequal parts. The smaller sunken area (10m E–W; 11m N–S) to E is, according to local tradition, the site of the second church (MA082-035002-), which is marked as ‘Ch. (in Rns.)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035005 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-). An irregular-shaped block of stone (c. 0.7m x 0.5m; H c. 0.4m) with a roughly circular depression (diam. 0.27m; D 0.1m) in its upper surface. It is located on a raised area in the centre of the ecclesiastical enclosure, within a rectangular hollow which preserves the outline of a church (MA082-035001-). There is a possible standing stone (MA082-035006-) immediately to W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-035006 Standing stone
  Description

  In the centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (MA082-035004-). An irregular-shaped, prostrate slab (L 1.4m; Wth 0.95m; T 0.1-0.4m), which, according to local information, originally stood upright on the central rise in the enclosure. It is now lying within a rectangular hollow, all that remains of a church (MA082-035001-). There is a bullaun stone (MA082-035005-) immediately to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• MA082-048 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on level ground on the margins of the original flood plain of Crossbeg Lough, which is c. 70m to SE but is now drained and converted to pasture. Ground rises gently to NW, with higher ridges to N and NE. Roughly circular, grass-covered flat-topped rise (diam. 12.5-14m; H 0.6m) with broadly slumping sides. It appears to be largely earthen but incorporates some stones. Growing from the centre of the platform are two hawthorn trees, at the roots of which a heap (diam. 2m; H 0.4m) of loose stone has accumulated. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Crossbeg · An Chrois Bheag

Area

1,304,650 m² (130.47 ha, 322.39 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Coolnaha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolnaha electoral division: 511 people in 178 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn Beg, Cartron North, Cloongawnagh (Burke), Cloongawnagh (Cosgrave), Coolnaha North, Crossard, Tooreen

Placenames

Crossbeg 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.