Glen Beg

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen Beg, from 1,290 m² to 318,850 m² (31.89 ha, 78.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Glen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Glen Beg 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Callows SPA 004094
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glencairn 002095
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River Callows 000073

Recorded monuments

• WA020-012 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on high ground overlooking the floodplain of the W-E River Blackwater c. 400m to the N. This is a T-shaped house with a five-bay, two-storey Georgian façade and a three-bay stairs return. The three projecting rectangular towers with crow-stepped gables indicate an early 17th century date, as do the six chimney stacks. It is still occupied. 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. Date of upload: 23 December 2008

• WA020-017 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight E-W ridge. It is visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 40m), with traces of an outer feature E-S on aerial photographs (MM (72) 15-28). An enclosure site (WA020-027----) is c. 40m to the S. 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. Date of upload: 30 July 2010

• WA020-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-W ridge. A cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (72) 15-28). It is located c. 40m S of an enclosure site (WA020-017----). 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Glenbeg House, farm house, 1625–1630 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey farmhouse, built 1626, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey projecting end bays; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (north). For sale, 1850. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Restored, 1999-2002. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (north); pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), clay ridge tiles, tuck pointed coursed or snecked rubble stone central chimney stacks having lichen-spotted capping supporting terracotta pots, crow stepped coping to gables (end bays) with abbreviated chimney stack (west) or lichen-spotted chimney stack (east), rooflights (north), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Pigmented lime rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-limestone threshold, and moulded surround framing nailed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-nine (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Glenbeg House, farmyard complex, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1841, including (north): Detached seven-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with corrugated-iron finish (north), roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, paired central chimney stacks having shallow capping, coping to gable (west) with crow stepped coping to gable (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed walls with flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central carriageway with margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing corrugated-iron door. Square-headed flanking door openings with margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing remains of timber doors having overlights. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone shallow sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing remains of louvered timber fittings. Set in grounds shared with Glenbeg House.

• Glenbeg House, gate lodge, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with lichen-spotted clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack on shallow cushion course on roughcast base having red brick capping, lichen-spotted coping to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing remains of timber fittings. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Glenbeg House.

• Glenbeg House, gates/railings/walls, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1841, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-spotted panelled piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornices below lichen-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates with lichen-spotted panelled outer piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornices below lichen-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Glenbeg House.

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 Glen 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1499 (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 Glen Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Glen Beg · An Gleann Beag

Area

752,808 m² (75.28 ha, 186.02 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

Aglish, Ballyduff Lower, Ballyduff Upper, Ballygally West, Coolydoody North, Gairha

Placenames

Glen 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.