Kildun Beg
Kildun Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cill Ghoin Bheag.
- Area
- 87.1 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 3,527 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildun Beg, from 47 m² to 119,537 m² (11.95 ha, 29.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Aug 2022Refused
RETAIN THE BUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED FOR THE USE OF A HAIRDRESSING SALON ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 22704
24 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22240
13 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A 6 BAY OPEN SLATTED SHED WITH A CREEP AREA AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18529
12 Apr 2017Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REAR EXTENSION ON A SITE WITH REVISED SITE LAYOUT/BOUNDARIES. FULL PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT FOR RETENTION OF REVISED ENTRANCE/DRIVEWAY LOCATIONS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17266
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kildun Beg.
Recorded monuments
- MA121-039 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle S facing slope. Marked on OS map (1838) as small circular enclosure. Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 369. Date of upload: 22 December 2014
- MA121-040 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GSI M 179 -80; Roll 197, pr. 26) shows circular area defined by cropmark of fosse (est. max. diam. c. 47m). Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 459E. Date of upload: 22 December 2014
- MA121-041 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Aerial photograph (GSI M 179 -80; Roll 197, pr. 27) shows circular vegetation mark (est. max. diam. c. 41m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 0. Date of upload: 23 December 2014
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement straw thatch, rope twist above exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourse below capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings with rock faced cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with fittings not visible. Road fronted with concrete verge to front.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kildun Beg, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kildun Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kildun Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kildun Beg · Cill Ghoin Bheag
- Area
- 870,973 m² (87.1 ha, 215.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Cong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherduff, Kildun More, Knock North, Lecarrowkilleen
- Placenames
- Kildun 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.