Mass Beg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mass Beg, from 1,598 m² to 174,053 m² (17.41 ha, 43.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mass 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.

• 26 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/6020) DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661184

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561337

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) SELF-CONTAINED FLAT WITHIN THE APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE ON A TEMPORARY BASIS DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE (2) COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252067

• 3 Jun 2022Refused

  ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REF:17/50046 CONSISTING OF THE RELOCATION OF PERMITTED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE IN A SOUTH-EASTERLY DIRECTION, ALSO REVISING THE FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SUIT THE NEW LOCATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250966

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED SHEEP SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152555

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 Mass Beg.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-031 Standing stone
  Description

  A small stump of stone is said to be the remains of a standing stone not marked on the OS 6-inch maps. It is believed to have been broken c. 1977. It is located in an elevated position in good land with wide views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Mass 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1896 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Mass Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Mass Beg

Area

577,262 m² (57.73 ha, 142.64 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadlea, Gortinreagh, Mass More, Mulnaveagh, Sheercloon

Placenames

Mass 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.