Aggard Beg

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aggard Beg, from 121 m² to 172,762 m² (17.28 ha, 42.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Aggard 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.

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  for change of use from office building to domestic shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660273

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 222 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260580

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  of a dwelling house on a site with revised site boundaries to those originally approved under pl. ref. no. 05-165. Also for the construction of a front single storey extension, rear two storey extension, elevation alterations, the provision of a domestic garage and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 66.9 sqm (house) & 25 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 189.5 (house)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211397

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 231.6 sqm and 50.76 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211188

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  For the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, and onsite wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181sqm (House) and 40sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21965

• 23 Dec 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202052

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the side gable of an extension dwelling, also the provision of a new waste water treatment plant. Gross floor space of work to be retained 23.68sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171407

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 Aggard Beg.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 36.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.8m) is visible at E. Some stone protruding from the sod cover here may be the remains of a stone revetment. Numerous modern gaps cut the inner bank in NW sector. Cultivation ridges encroach upon the outer bank at E. (McCaffrey 1952, 209, no. 29a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in rolling pastureland. A well-preserved circular rath (diam. 31.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from WNW through E to S. McCaffrey (1952, 208-9, no. 29) refers to an outer bank but this was not noted. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge overlooking marshland to E and S. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 30.8m) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is breached by numerous modern gaps. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) is visible at SSE. Cultivation ridges are evident in the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 209, no. 30) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in tillage. A well-preserved circular rath (diam. 27.4m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Several gaps breach the inner bank but that at SE (Wth 1.8m) may be original. The fosse and outer bank have been disturbed at SE; the latter is overlain by field walls at S and W. A mound (GA104-010----) lies c. 7m to the NE. (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 27) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in pastureland. A well-preserved circular rath (diam. 19.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survives at SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 209-10, no. 31) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-007 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1982 to be a quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA104-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rolling pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (23.7m N-S) defined by a bank from S through W to N. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to E of it. Within NW quadrant of the interior is a blocked-up souterrain (GA104-008001-). A barrow (GA104-109----) lies c. 50m to SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2016

• GA104-008001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-008----). This inaccessible souterrain is indicated by a stone-filled depression as well as one roof lintel (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 July 2017

• GA104-009 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On an esker ridge, c. 40m to the SW of a rath (GA104-008001-). This circular ring-barrow (diam. 15.7m) is definded by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 6.5m; H 1m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. The centre of the mound has been disturbed and no visible surface trace of the fosse and bank survive from NW through N to SE (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 24, 208, no. 26; 1955, 221; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 190) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 August 2019

• GA104-010 Mound
  Description

  In pastureland c. 7m to the NE of a rath (GA104-005----). When visited by the Survey in April 1983, this monument consisted of a poorly preserved roughly circular flat-topped mound (diam. 8.2m; H 0.15-0.6m). On inspection in February 1984 no visible surface trace survived (SMR file). Quarrying had occurred in the area. (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 28) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

Terrain model

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

Name

Aggard Beg · An tAgard Beag

Area

1,263,248 m² (126.32 ha, 312.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killora, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Craughwell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,092 people lived in 690 households in the Craughwell electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aggard More, Ballynamannin, Carrigeen East, Lissindragan, Mannin, Roo

Placenames

Aggard 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.