Carrig Beg

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig Beg, from 1,024 m² to 270,546 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Carrig 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  a Single Storey Dwelling, Treatment Plant and Polishing Filter Bed, Entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561181

• 24 Sept 2025N/a

  a single storey dwelling, treatment plant and polishing filter bed, entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560967

• 12 Nov 2021Refused

  a 10-year permission and 35 year operation for a solar farm on four land parcels as described herein; North Parcel(Gortnakistin townland) approximately 23.78 hectares, Central Parcel(Ballyvalode & Keeloges townlands) approximately 43.49 hectares, South Central Parcel(Gortyvahane and Moanroe townlands) approximately 34.7 hectares, South Parcel(Garryduff, Moanroe, Moanoola and Kilmacogue townland) approximately 39.27 hectares. The Central Parcel, South Central Parcel and South Parcel are collectively referred to as the Main Solar Farm; a route corridor of 0.58 hectares for an underground internal network cable along the R507 and L5040 public roads for approximately 600 metres and within the solar farm lands for approximately 1,260 metres. The total site area for the proposed development is approximately 141.8 hectares. The proposed development on these parcels comprises of 755,000sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks; associated drainage infrastructure; site entrances to the R507 public road(site entrance to main solar farm) and the L5040 public local road(North Parcel); CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. Works for the internal network cable comprise trenching for an underground medium voltage electrical cable and associated joint bays and infrastructure, for a distance of approximately 560 metres on the R507 Regional Road, approximately 100 metres on the L5040 Local Road and approximately 1,260m within the solar farm lands. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development(SID) planning application provision of a 110kV electrical substation with electrical control building, associated compound with palisade fence and 2no. overhead line masts, which is to be located within the main solar farm, will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála in due course. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211565

• 4 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of an extension to first floor bedroom and new pitched roof over existing single storey flat roof with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20879

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house site entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17589

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI025-004001 Church
  Description

  Situated in grassland, with Coonagh castle (LI025-002002-) and Cahernahallia River 215m and 160m to W respectively. Mentioned in the 1302 Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Diocese of Emly as the 'Chapel de Novo Castro [Casteltown]', listed in the Deanery of Tipperary (Cal. doc. Ire., 288). Present remains consist of an undivided single cell church with broken out doorway at W end of S wall. The church is built with rubble walls with long and short dressed limestone quoins. Only the lower chamfered jambs on the W side of the doorway remain intact with pyramidal-shaped chamfer stop visible. A hanging eye is visible on W side of doorway with drawbar slot opposite on E side of doorway embrasure. No evidence of a window in the W gable which appears to have been partially rebuilt with a row of putlog holes or wooden beam holes visible in external face. A broken out single light window is visible at E end of S wall. A large portion of the central section of the N wall is no longer upstanding. A pointed dressed stone piscina is visible at E end of S wall. The unglazed dressed limestone twin light ogee-headed E window is missing its central mullion and has spandrels decorated with a three leaf possible oak plant motif. This window stands inside a dressed chamfered pointed arch window embrasure of late medieval date. A post-1700 buttress has been built up against external face of E gable close to NE angle. Castletown church described in 1840 as 'the supposed, ruin of a Friary. The walls are about 10 feet [3m] high, and in length and breadth respectively about 40 feet [12m] and 20 feet [6m]. It is now used as a burial-place, though but few interments take place in it' (OSNB, 353). The Ordnance Survey letters described the church ruins as; ‘The old Church of this Parish is still in tolerable preservation, but not more than four centuries old. It is forty nine feet [15m] in length on the inside and twenty feet [6m] in breadth. Its side walls are about ten feet [3m] in height and three feet [0.9m] in thickness and well built. The east gable contains a window which is pointed on the inside, but square at the top on the outside, where it measures about six feet [2m] in height and eighteen inches [0.45m] in width. The south wall contains a narrow window placed at the distance of three feet five inches [1m] from the east gable and measuring on the outside four feet four inches [1.3m] in height and five and a half inches [0.13m] in width and widening to three feet on the inside [0.9m]. The doorway, which was placed on the south wall at the distance of ten feet [3m] from the west gable, is destroyed except a small corner of its west side. The west gable is destroyed down to the height of the side walls and there is a breach in the north wall, but all the rest are in very good preservation. This building was never divided into a nave and choir’ (OSL, 130-1). Westropp (1904-5, 384) recorded the following details on Castletown; ‘A parish in Coonagh, named from the MacBriens' Castle [LI025-002002-]. Fabric - It is of the fifteenth century, 49 feet [15m] long; the walls being 10 feet [3m] by 3 feet [0.9m]. The east window has a pointed light and oblong splay. The south wall has a slit near its east end, and a defaced door; the west end fell before 1840 (O.S.L. 9, p. 430)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 January 2019

• LI025-004002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in grassland, with Coonagh castle (LI025-002002-) and Cahernahallia River 215m and 160m to W respectively. Castletown church forms N boundary of small rectangular-shaped graveyard described in 1840 as 'the supposed, ruin of a Friary. The walls are about 10 feet [3m] high, and in length and breadth respectively about 40 feet [12m] and 20 feet [6m]. It is now used as a burial-place, though but few interments take place in it' (OSNB, 353). Ruins of church stand in the N quadrant of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 25m N-S x 32m E-W) enclosed by a post and wire fence with stone wall and entrance gate at S end of short stretch of E wall. Cluster of low uninscribed stones to S of church mark burial plots, 19th century inscribed memorial to the O'Brien family of Coona inside W end of church. No evidence of any low stones or possible gravemarkers in area to N and W of church. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 March 2019

• LI025-038 Enclosure
  Description

  On grassland. Cropmark of possible circular-shaped enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 8 September 2020

• LI025-057 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In poorly drained grassland. Outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• LI025-058 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In poorly drained grassland. Outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrig 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 Carrig 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrig 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 Carrig Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Carrig Beg · An Charraig Bheag

Area

1,630,011 m² (163 ha, 402.78 acres)

Civil parish

Castletown, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig More, Cloonlusk, Coolbaun, Gortnakistin, Moanduff, Portane, Reask

Placenames

Carrig 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.