Keenagh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Caonach Beag
- Area
- 719.8 ha
- 1,779 acres
- Land parcels
- 108
- registered freehold, median 13,255 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keenagh Beg, from 35 m² to 1,053,939 m² (105.39 ha, 260.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keenagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Apr 2026N/a
Retention Planning permission for detached two storey shed/storage/gym/home office and all associated ancillaries
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660327
21 Apr 2026N/a
Retention Planning permission for detached two storey shed/storage/gym/home office and all associated ancillaries
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660320
11 Dec 2018Conditional
UPGRADE OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18994
26 Oct 2018N/a
UPGRADE OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18844
24 Nov 2017Conditional
RETAIN EXTENSION TO FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE, RETAIN DOMESTIC SHED AND TO RETAIN AND UPGRADE SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO TERTIARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17934
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
- Special Area of Conservation: Bellacorick Bog Complex SAC 001922
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellacorick Bog Complex 001922
Recorded monuments
- MA037-007 Crannog
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA046-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA046-001001 Children's burial ground
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA046-009 Cairn - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA046-010 Children's burial ground
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Holy Souls, church/chapel, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, begun 1916; dated 1916, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed corbel kneelers including concrete coping to gable (north) on "Cavetto"-detailed corbel kneelers with rendered buttressed bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on beaded "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered battered plinth with rendered strips to corners. Round-headed central door opening with replacement poured concrete ramp, and rendered surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Round-headed window openings to "cheeks" with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Windows" to gables including round-headed stepped "Trinity Window" (south) with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Interior including vestibule with tessellated "quarry tile" floor; round-headed door opening into nave with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, Romanesque-style timber memorial stations between frosted glass windows, cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble stepped "predella" supporting altar table below frosted glass "Trinity Window", and exposed strutted collared timber roof construction on beaded "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice on quatrefoil-perforated frieze. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Keenagh 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keenagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Keenagh Beg · Caonach Beag
- Area
- 7,198,308 m² (719.83 ha, 1,778.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Derry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Derry electoral division: 202 people in 79 households; 92% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glasheens, Glenagort, Glendavoolagh, Keenagh More, Letterbrick, Letterneevoge, Mungaun, Sranacally
- Placenames
- Keenagh 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.