Largan Beg

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largan Beg, from 771 m² to 177,882 m² (17.79 ha, 43.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Largan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Largan Beg 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowmore Lake Complex SAC 000476
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowmore Lake Complex 000476

Recorded monuments

• MA027-001001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a steep SW facing hillside, in rough mountainous terrain. This children’s burial ground is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘Grave Yard’ and on the 1921 edition as ‘Grave Yd. (Disused)’. It consists of roughly triangular-shaped area (14.3m NE-SW; 12.3m NW-SE) bordered by field boundaries from WSW−ESE and by a stream from ESE−S. In the interior there is a crude altar (027-001002-) at the NNW, and numerous graves marked by slabs, boulders and roughly square stone settings. Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on the altar. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Paddy O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• MA027-001002 Altar
  Description

  In a children’s burial ground (MA027-001001-). There is a altar (1.75m E-W; 1.65m N-S; max H 1.2m), crudely constructed of stones, at the NNW end of the burial ground. Aldridge (1969, 86) recorded it as ‘an altar of rough stones, with a curiously shaped water worn stone standing at each corner’. Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on the altar. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Paddy O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• MA027-001003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  In a children’s burial ground (MA027-001001-). Aldridge (1969, 86) noted a cross-inscribed stone (MA027-001003-) on a crude stone-built altar (MA027-001002-) at the NNW end of the burial ground. He described it as a 'natural square stone with crude superimposed crosses cut in it’. It was not located during an inspection in 1996. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Paddy O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• MA027-002001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  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.

• MA027-002002 Inscribed stone
  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

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

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 Largan Beg, about 1 in 10 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 Largan 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.

No address of the register names Largan Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Largan Beg · An Leargain Bheag

Area

1,688,273 m² (168.83 ha, 417.18 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Glenco, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Largan More, Sheean, Sheskin, Tawnaghmore

Placenames

Largan 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.