Shean Beg
Shean Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Sián Beag.
Parcel 1554527
- Area
- 69,598 m² (6.96 ha, 17.2 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Shean 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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 low.
- 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.
- Area
- 66.8 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 6,591 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shean Beg, from 1,329 m² to 219,130 m² (21.91 ha, 54.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Shean 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
13 Jun 2025N/a
cubicle house, two slatted slurry tanks and associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560418
31 Jul 2020Conditional
retention of milking parlour extension and planning permission for a cubicle house, slatted slurry tank, slatted dairy wash tank and silage slab, demolition of existing silage slab and associated works
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20519
13 Feb 2017Conditional
of Calf Rearing Shed and permission for (a) construction of a roofed shed on existing feeding pad and (b) construction of an agricultural cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated siteworks
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 1793
1 Apr 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage, proprietary treatment tank system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5005
4 Feb 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of proprietary treatment tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4321
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shean Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shean Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shean 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Shean Beg, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shean 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 Shean Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Shean Beg · An Sián Beag
- Area
- 668,201 m² (66.82 ha, 165.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Castlerichard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 494 people lived in 178 households in the Castlerichard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garrynagoul (Co. Cork), Kilcoran North (Co. Cork), Kilcoran South (Co. Cork), Marshtown (Co. Cork), Shean (Co. Cork), Shean More
- Placenames
- Shean 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.