Dirkbeg

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dirkbeg, from 282,467 m² (28.25 ha, 69.8 acres) to 5,880,371 m² (588.04 ha, 1,453.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Dirkbeg 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 Dirkbeg 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dirkbeg.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dirkbeg, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dirkbeg · An Deirc Bheag

Area

6,156,954 m² (615.7 ha, 1,521.42 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Ballinchalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

235 people lived in 96 households in the Ballinchalla electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnahowna, Cappanacreha, Derry, Glennacally

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dirkbeg 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.