Cragbeg

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cragbeg, from 585 m² to 535,424 m² (53.54 ha, 132.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cragbeg 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.

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  the reconstruction of the former two storey wing located to the east of the main house, (formerly demolished), retention of the original foundation and front façade, as well as retention of rising walls and all associated site works on and under land. Cragbeg is a protected structure. B12(62)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18797

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cragbeg.

Architectural heritage

• Cragbeg House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c. 1790, having two-bay single-storey wing to west having bow to rear (north) elevation and two-bay single-storey curtain wall to east elevation having lean-to to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves with timber brackets. Limestone cornice surmounted by decorative plinths and lion sculptures. Coursed ashlar limestone walls having limestone plinth course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed opening to second floor with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to first and ground floors having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to west wind with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to curtain wall having limestone sills, now blocked up. Square-headed openings to basement, rear elevation with limestone sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and cast-iron sill guards. Square-headed openings to ground floor, rear elevation having limestone sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and render entablatures. Square-headed openings to bow, rear elevation with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having cut limestone surround with carved entablature and replacement uPVC door. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron railings. Round-headed opening to east elevation, basement with glazed overlight over timber battened door. Single-storey gate lodge to south having pitched slate roof and red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers to south with carved caps, plinths and flanking square-headed pedestrian entrances with single-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates. Rubble limestone sweeping walls with limestone copings terminating in second pair of piers.

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 Cragbeg, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_848 (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 Cragbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cragbeg · An Chraig Bheag

Area

1,043,225 m² (104.32 ha, 257.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Clarina, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,993 people lived in 697 households in the Clarina electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Briska More, Cloghatacka, Corcamore, Elmpark Demesne, Glascurram

Placenames

Cragbeg 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.