Begsreeve
Begsreeve is a townland in the civil parish of Siddan, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 71 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 5,681 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Begsreeve, from 1,420 m² to 336,277 m² (33.63 ha, 83.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 24 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
3 Nov 2023Conditional
a proposed new all-weather AstroTurf pitch and ball wall with associated perimeter fence, netting, lighting columns and associated light fittings, and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 231032
29 Aug 2023Conditional
a livestock housing unit with underground slurry storage tank, extension to existing cattle housing unit, concrete apron, silage slab and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23842
20 Jun 2023Conditional
the development consists of permission for (1) the extension of 11 no. existing lighting columns and the upgrade of their associated light fittings, (2) the extension of the existing footpath around the perimeter of the playing field, (3) the erection of 8 no. new low level lighting columns and associated light fittings. Permission for retention of 12 no. existing lighting columns and their associated light fittings, along with all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23628
23 Dec 2019Conditional
the erection of walls around existing silage apron, slatted cattle shed and feed passage, milking parlour and collecting yard, unroofed dairy, machine room, farm office, cattle handling area, slatted tanks, soiled water tank, meal bin, concrete yards and ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB191821
14 Jun 2017Conditional
extension to cattle shed with ancillary provision for effluent storage
Permission · Meath County Council, LB170676
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 Begsreeve.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Begsreeve.
Architectural heritage
- Milestone/milepost, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Triangular-profile granite milestone, c.1780, inscribed on two sides.
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 Begsreeve, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Begsreeve.
- 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 Begsreeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Begsreeve
- Area
- 709,932 m² (70.99 ha, 175.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Siddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Electoral division
- Killary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,291 people lived in 467 households in the Killary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Benjerstown, Devinstown, Footstown Great, Lobinstown, Polecastle, Siddan
- Placenames
- Begsreeve 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.