Beagh

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh, from 970 m² to 106,234 m² (10.62 ha, 26.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  permission to retain a single storey extension onto rear and side of existing detached dwelling, alterations to internal layout and elevations, single storey detached garage, relocation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19204

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission to erect a two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1963

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shelf that is on a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking Graghlone or Beagh Lough, an oval lake (dims c. 630m N-S; c. 360m E-W), the W shore of which is c. 150m distant. It is depicted as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NW-SE: c. 25m NE-SW) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A fragment of an earthen bank (Wth of base 2.75m; Wth of top 0.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m) with some bushes survives at NW, but it is reduced to a scarp at NE (H 1.1m) (Chord 31m). There is no visible fosse and the rest of the perimeter cannot be traced. 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: 25 August 2017

• MO030-045 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Located towards the S end of a N-S ridge and overlooking the W shore of Greaghlone or Beagh Lough, which is c. 250m to the SE. Aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 48/49) from the 1970s show a small circular enclosure. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Date of revised upload: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Beagh.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Beagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Beagh · An Bheitheach

Area

719,327 m² (71.93 ha, 177.75 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Comertagh, Cornalara (Co. Cavan), Greaghlone, Raferagh, Taghart North or Closnabraddan (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Beagh 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.