Kilbeg Upper

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg Upper, from 880 m² to 205,690 m² (20.57 ha, 50.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Kilbeg Upper 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.

• 9 Feb 2024Conditional

  extension and renovation of the existing cottage which will consist of the demolition of the existing shed structure and the removal of the existing front entrance porch of the cottage, and some minor external alterations, and allow for the construction of a new 179m2 2-storey extension to the rear, with a single storey link connection to the existing cottage. Permission is also sought to replace the existing septic tank with a new waste water treatment system and percolation area, and to provide new vehicular entrance piers, with landscaping and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460060

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  Section 254 Licence for the erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including: 1)The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2) The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables. Poles do not exceed 12 metres in height or approximately 0.3 metres in diameter and are manufactured to EN14229:2010

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22712

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 Kilbeg Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WA033-002 Boundary stone
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a S-N spur, with extensive views to the N and E. Marked as a possible megalithic feature on a 1716 map by Bateman (NLI, MSS 6148-9). There is a conglomerate boulder (dims. 1.1m x 0.6m x 0.4m) now lying at the side of the road. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011

• WA033-003 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Located towards the top of a N-and E-facing slope of a S-N spur, with extensive views to the N and E. Two standing stones are marked on a 1716 manuscript map by Bateman (NLI, MSS 6148-9). Nothing is visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1970. Now disused. Hipped roof with reed thatch, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Painted replacement cement rendered walls, c.1970. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, c.1970, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1970. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with part overgrown grounds to site. (ii) Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1820, to north with three-bay single-storey wing to right (north). Extensively renovated, c.1995, to accommodate residential use. Undergoing renovation, 2003, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch under construction. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, timber eaves to porch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings remodelled, c.1995, with no sills, replacement red brick ‘voussoirs’, c.1995, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed window openings to porch with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to porch with no fittings.

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 Kilbeg Upper, 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 Kilbeg Upper.

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 Kilbeg Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Kilbeg Upper · An Choill Bheag Uachtarach

Area

1,889,880 m² (188.99 ha, 467 acres)

Civil parish

Tallow, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Tallow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,322 people lived in 526 households in the Tallow electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glennaglogh, Kilbeg Lower, Kilcalf East, Kilcalfmountain, Knockaun South, Racecourse

Placenames

Kilbeg Upper 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.