Glen Beg

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen Beg, from 150 m² to 192,239 m² (19.22 ha, 47.5 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 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  Indefinite retention of stable buildings, kennels, fodder and machinery storage buildings, horse walker, home office and all ancillary works.

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2660630

• 15 Aug 2026N/a

  of stable buildings, kennels, fodder and machinery storage buildings, horse walker, home office and all ancillary works.

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2660614

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  the relocation of an existing vehicular entrance from the existing private lane to a new location on the adjacent public roadway. The proposed entrance will consist of a plastered concrete block wall with timber sheeted sliding gate as per existing entrance, which will be extinguished as part of these works. New timber post & rail fencing reinstated to match adjacent.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660202

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  Part two storey and part single storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460446

• 8 Jan 2021Conditional

  for proposed alterations and extension to existing school, installation of waste water treatment system and sand polishing filter, removal of existing prefabs and including all associated site works at

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 213

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  a three classroom single-storey temporary prefabricated building including all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18186

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 Glen Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glen Beg.

Architectural heritage

• The Forge, forge/smithy, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey forge, dated 1892. Extensively renovated, 1992, to accommodate residential use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered squat chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone wall to front (north-west) elevation (probably originally rendered with render removed, 1992) with cut-stone date stone/plaque, and painted replacement cement rendered walls, 1992, to remainder having spoked detailing to gables. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, cut-stone lintels, and replacement timber casement windows, 1992. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone lintel, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Road fronted with limestone flagged verge to front.

• An Gríanán, house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, c.1920, retaining most original fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch, and two-bay single-storey side elevations. Part refenestrated, c.1995. Hipped roof (hipped to dormer attic window) with red clay tile having chamfered corners, decorative red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having profiled coping, square rooflights, c.1995, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995, on timber eaves. Flat concrete roof to porch on concrete pillars having profiled corners, and moulded capping. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with stone sills. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows with replacement uPVC casement window, c.1995, to dormer attic. Square-headed door opening under projecting open porch with replacement timber panelled door, c.1995, having sidelights on timber panels, and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having unpainted rendered boundary wall with unpainted rendered piers, and wrought iron double gates.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glen 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.

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

1,120,644 m² (112.06 ha, 276.92 acres)

Civil parish

Dungarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,096 people lived in 699 households in the Dungarvan Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane More, Ballyguiry, Coolnagour, Crussera, Glen More, Kilmurry, Knocknahoola, Monacullee, Shanakill

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.