Cuilbeg

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilbeg, from 723 m² to 76,868 m² (7.69 ha, 18.99 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 Cuilbeg 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.

• 28 Jan 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 30 METRE HIGH FREE STANDING COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE (TOTAL HEIGHT WITH ANTENNAS 30.05 METRES) WITH ITS ASSOCIATED ANTENNAE, COMMUNICATION DISHES, GROUND EQUIPMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL FORM PART OF EIRCOM LTD EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BROADBAND NETWORK

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2154

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 Cuilbeg.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise, with good views of the surrounding lowlying expanses of bog and damp pasture. A stream/drain coinciding with the townland boundary is located 220m to N. Raised circular area (29.5m E–W; 32.6m N–S) defined by an earthen scarp (H 0.9m at E, 1.4m at W). In parts, the scarp retains a slight internal rim from which stones protrude. On the 1916 OS 6-inch map the scarp is shown incorporated at NE–W into field boundaries. These field boundaries have been removed and the external slope of the scarp is cut to the vertical. There are several slumped or eroded sections but no clearly defined entrance gap; there may have been an entrance on the E side where the scarp is lowest. The interior has a slight central dip, giving the rath a shallow, saucer-shaped profile. Grass cover, with a light growth of gorse and hawthorn on the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over railway line, opened 1862; extant 1893. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

• Bekan Railway Station, station master's house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey railway station master's house with half-dormer attic, opened 1909; occupied 1911, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bay. Closed, 1963. Renovated to accommodate continued private residential use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles centred on cement rendered red brick Running bond chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing one-over-one or two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds.

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

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

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

Name

Cuilbeg · An Choill Bheag

Area

543,069 m² (54.31 ha, 134.2 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Culnacleha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Culnacleha electoral division: 483 people in 184 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belesker, Bracklagh, Cloonbookeighter, Cloonlara, Keebagh

Placenames

Cuilbeg 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.