Clossagh Beg
Clossagh Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Chluasach Bheag.
- Area
- 110.3 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clossagh Beg, from 558 m² to 124,688 m² (12.47 ha, 30.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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
No zone of a development plan covers Clossagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jul 2021Conditional
permission to construct a dormer bungalow style dwelling house, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, mounded soil percolation area, develop existing entrance onto public road together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21418
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: Dromore Lakes 000001
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clossagh Beg.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch sandstone railway bridge, built 1860, carrying Shantonagh Junction to Cootehill line of Great Northern Railway over road. Now disused. Segmental arch, having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs, cut-stone impost course, dressed stone soffit. Snecked rusticated abutments and walls, splayed diminishing wing walls of snecked dressed limestone, both having rusticated copings. Square-plan terminating piers with rusticated capstones. Carriageway overgrown.
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 Clossagh Beg, about 1 in 20 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 low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clossagh 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 Clossagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Clossagh Beg · An Chluasach Bheag
- Area
- 1,102,706 m² (110.27 ha, 272.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Anny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Anny, Clossagh More, Corryhagan, Glen, Leagh, Tattybrack
- Placenames
- Clossagh 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.