# Beagh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Bheitheach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 618,295 m² (61.83 ha, 152.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,372 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheross, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheross.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,291 people lived in 1,518 households in the Carrickmacross Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39313 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170166 - Centre: latitude 53.997156, longitude -6.761769 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh, from 185 m² to 80,221 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 332617: 80,221 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332617.md - Parcel 330490: 68,378 m² (6.84 ha, 16.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330490.md - Parcel 2436490: 56,203 m² (5.62 ha, 13.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2436490.md - Parcel 347173: 54,763 m² (5.48 ha, 13.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347173.md - Parcel 321631: 52,447 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321631.md - Parcel 318571: 40,060 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318571.md - Parcel 350725: 35,131 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350725.md - Parcel 339088: 26,133 m² (2.61 ha, 6.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339088.md - Parcel 356343: 21,571 m² (2.16 ha, 5.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356343.md - Parcel 346422: 16,756 m² (1.68 ha, 4.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346422.md - Parcel 330671: 13,288 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330671.md - Parcel 322915: 13,224 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322915.md - Parcel 332541: 12,813 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332541.md - Parcel 3995840: 10,088 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995840.md - Parcel 320484: 9,656 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320484.md - Parcel 339850: 8,637 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339850.md - Parcel 4861571: 8,459 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861571.md - Parcel 319870: 8,302 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319870.md - Parcel 4317048: 8,112 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4317048.md - Parcel 335252: 6,524 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335252.md - Parcel 324211: 6,219 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324211.md - Parcel 323825: 5,501 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323825.md - Parcel 320742: 5,289 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320742.md - Parcel 328400: 5,126 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328400.md - Parcel 335352: 4,653 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335352.md - Parcel 316124: 4,363 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316124.md - Parcel 329191: 4,043 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329191.md - Parcel 4566140: 3,888 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4566140.md - Parcel 4103819: 3,734 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4103819.md - Parcel 329039: 3,675 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329039.md - Parcel 329152: 3,463 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329152.md - Parcel 328070: 3,127 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328070.md - Parcel 328650: 2,440 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328650.md - Parcel 349242: 2,342 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349242.md - Parcel 328205: 2,317 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328205.md - Parcel 323899: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323899.md - Parcel 4317049: 2,243 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4317049.md - Parcel 348366: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348366.md - Parcel 327998: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327998.md - Parcel 4861577: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861577.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Beagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 23 Jul 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660314: Conditional. Permission. permission for construction of a single-storey extension to the side elevation of an existing dwelling, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660314/0 - 3 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560398: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. planning Permission to construct a part two storey, part single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public roadway, driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping, boundaries and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560398/0 - 28 Feb 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460072: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460072/0 - 18 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20166: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a storey and a half dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new gated domestic entrance, timber boundary fencing and include all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20166/0 - 20 Sept 2019, Monaghan County Council 19447: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey house, waste water treatment system and percolation unit, domestic garage, boundary fencing, a new entrance on to the public road and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19447/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO031-003: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-003----. Situated at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad NW-SE drumlin ridge. This monument is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m NE-SW; 27.8m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SE (H c. 1.6m) and is defined by earthen bank (Wth of base 6.2-9m; int. H 0.7m at SE to 1.5m at NW; ext. H 2m), with traces of an outer fosse SSE-W. The entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.9m; H 1.1m) are at SE. The interior has become overgrown since 1967 (Bing 2013). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 27 July 2017 - MO031-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-004----. Located in a fold towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is not represented on the 1907 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 27 July 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Beagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2609, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2609.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170166.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170166.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170166.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Beagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghalile: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghalile.md - Greaghdrumit: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghdrumit.md - Greaghnaroog: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghnaroog.md - Legghimore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/legghimore.md - Lisnaguiveragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnaguiveragh.md - Tiragarvan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tiragarvan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170166 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/beagh-170166