Ellagh Beg

Area

100,893 m² (10.09 ha, 24.93 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 323 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Ellagh Beg

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 6 recorded monuments.

• MA040-031001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA040-031002). There is no visible trace of the church. The 1838 OS Letters recorded that ‘the church has been destroyed’, but according to tradition it was located in the NE corner of the graveyard, and a tomb erected in 1836 by Howley of Belleek Castle ‘is said to stand where the old church was' (O’Flanagan 1927, 108). A structure or building, with an E-W axis, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map in the N of the graveyard; it is not marked as a church, and may represent the Howley tomb. The tomb, dated 1836, and dedicated to the wife of Edward Howley esq., of Belleek Castle, is enclosed by a wall of cut limestone, surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Appended to it E side is another rectangular grave enclosure (7m N–S; 3.4m E–W) defined by a mortared wall of stone rubble. The S wall is of stone and brick, and incorporates a gate. The N wall (L 3.4m; Wth 0.6m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.5m) is of mortared, roughly coursed rounded boulders and horizontally laid stones. The E wall has collapsed to a low jumble of stone. It is possible that this grave enclosure reused stone from, or incorporated remnants of the church, but there is no definitive evidence of this. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

• MA040-031002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a S-facing slope, bordered by a stream at the base of the slope. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map this graveyard is indicated as a trapezoidal walled area (55m N−S; 50m E−W at N, 25m E−W at S), accessed at the NW corner by a road. By the time of its depiction on the 1931 edition, where it is named 'Kilgarvan Burial Ground', the graveyard had been expanded to the W and S to its current subrectangular extent (c. 85-90m N–S; c. 85m E–W at N, c. 65m E–W at S), enclosed by a mortared stone wall. A low, grassed-over scarp extending N–S through the middle of the current space appears to indicate the original W boundary of the early 19th-century graveyard. The interior area encompasses a sharply undulating S-facing slope; there is a relatively level area in the N third from where the ground shelves down in a series of slopes and terraces to lowlying ground at the S end, which is bordered by a stream. Formal, inscribed 19th- and 20th-century headstones are set in roughly N–S rows, and are interspersed with many low, uninscribed fieldstone gravemarkers, the greatest concentration of which is in the E, older half, of the graveyard. The informal gravemarkers appear to be more randomly scattered, but some are also arranged in N–S rows. According to the 1838 OS letters, there was a church (MA040-031001-) in the NE of the graveyard, its location now marked by a 19th-century walled grave enclosure, dedicated to the Howley’s of Belleek (O’Flanagan 1927, 108). There is an ogham stone (MA040-031004-) in the NE quadrant of the graveyard. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

• MA040-031003 Enclosure
  Description

  Listed in the 1991 SMR and the 1996 RMP as ‘enclosure –possible’, the source of this record is uncertain. It may be based on a reference in the 1838 OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 108) to a section of the enclosing graveyard wall at NE that 'appears to be of ancient erection'. There is slight evidence of a difference at the E end of the N wall of the graveyard: Projecting 0.3m from beneath the inner face of the graveyard wall, is a stone plinth (L 11m; H 0.4m) consisting of two courses of what appears to be drystone walling. It is not visible beneath the external, N face of the wall. It is possible that an earlier graveyard wall/enclosure was here incorporated into the current graveyard wall. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

• MA040-031004 Ogham stone
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a graveyard (MA040-031002-), lying on the ground surface. A prostrate, pillar-like block of granitic stone (L 1.35m N-S; Wth 0.3m E−W, T 0.15-0.2m), with a roughly rectangular cross-section, bearing an ogham inscription along one angle of its long axis. The stone lies on the ground surface with its long axis oriented N−S; the inscription can be seen on the upper angle on the W side of the stone. It extends from the N end of the stone to roughly mid-way along its length. The surface of the stone is moderately blotched with lichens and moss, with denser growth on the W face. (Jane O’Shaughnessy, field report) The ogham inscription has been interpreted as DOTAGNI or possibly COTAGNI, as the spall at the start of the inscription may have removed a couple of scores. (Moore 2001, 33) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 2 May 2017

• MA040-032 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a thicket of hazel and blackthorn, in the base of a steep-sided stream gully (Wth 6-8m; D c. 2m), on level ground c. 3m S of the W-flowing stream. The well, named ‘Toberbreanal’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, consists of a rectangular pit (1.1m NE−SW; 1.4m NW−SE; D 1m) with vertical, stone-faced sides, now largely moss-covered. There is an opening in the wall at the NW end, where two shallow steps lead down to the water. There is a penitential cairn (MA040-032001-) immediately to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

• MA040-032001 Penitential station
  Description

  Located immediately to NE of holy well (MA040-032) on the bank of a stream that flows through a steep-sided gully. A low, subcircular cairn (c. 3.4m N−S; c. 2m E−W; H 0.5m) of stones. Two hazel trees grow from the NW side of the cairn. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.