Kill Beg
Kill Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmolyon, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 36.1 ha
- 89 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,951 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill Beg, from 67 m² to 96,401 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 · 34 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
7 Nov 2025Conditional
File Ref 21499 - A new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building, new wastewater treatment system, new site entrance & access road, new boundary treatment & all site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 25222
10 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) Construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing single storey cottage (2) to remove and raise the roof level of existing single storey cottage (3) construct elevation and internal floor plan alterations to existing cottage (3) to install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (4) Construct entrance gates and piers. (5) All other ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560717
23 Jul 2021Refused
development consists of the replacement of the existing house with a new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building and to convert the existing house for use as an agricultural storage building, a new wastewater disposal system and polishing filter, new site entrance and access road, new boundary treatment and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211423
18 Mar 2021Conditional
a new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building, new wastewater disposal system and polishing filter, new site entrance and access road, new boundary treatment and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21499
18 Mar 2021N/a
a new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building, new wastewater disposal system and polishing filter, new site entrance and access road, new boundary treatment and all associated site works and services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21501
11 Dec 2020N/a
development consists of a new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building, new wastewater disposal system and polishing filter, new site entrance and access road, new boundary treatment and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201912
11 Dec 2020N/a
development consists of a new single storey dwelling house, detached garage/storage building, new wastewater disposal system and polishing filter, new site entrance and access road, new boundary treatment and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201913
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rathmoylan Esker 000557
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kill Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kill 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kill 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kill 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 Kill Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kill Beg
- Area
- 361,023 m² (36.1 ha, 89.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmolyon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathmolyon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,660 people lived in 534 households in the Rathmolyon electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Formal, Isaacstown, Kill More
- Placenames
- Kill 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.