Beagh More

531 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beagh More, from 14 m² to 673,975 m² (67.4 ha, 166.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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 Beagh More 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.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  of existing house as built with minor alterations to the front elevation and addition of adjoining garage to the rear and all ancillary site works on revised site boundaries. The house was previously granted planning permission under historic planning permission reference 20541 in 1975

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26152

• 22 Jun 2026Refused

  to construct equine stables, an enclosed sand arena and dung stead along with all ancillary works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661040

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  of the demolition of a dwelling house, retention and completion of the replacement dwelling house, permission for a new onsite wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660172

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed with creep area

  Permission · Galway County Council, 263

• 1 Dec 2025Conditional

  for private dwelling house, domestic garage & new waste water treatment system to that previously granted under ref 2560869

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561767

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a new serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and a domestic garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561511

• 1 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment system and all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209.00 sqm(H), 60.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560869

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of single storey front and rear extensions to the existing dwelling house, upgrading of the onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 84.00 sqm(extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 32.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560429

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, a foul wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 214.87 sqm (H), 67.20 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24273

• 27 Oct 2022Conditional

  of existing dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundary. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 85sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221138

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  to erect a garage/storage shed to rear of site and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 59.50 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22476

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional

  for an existing dwelling and domestic shed with associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 155 sqm (house) & 18 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22138

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2230

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the demolition of a house in ruins (circa 19 square meters) and 2 No outbuildings (circa 32 and 45 square meters), the construction of a new detached dwelling (125.3 square meters), garage (24 square meters), wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 125.3 sqm, Garage: 24 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211633

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 171 sqm Garage: 63 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211613

• 12 Jul 2021N/a

  for a detached dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 181.2 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211261

• 29 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the replacement of approximately 200m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with 200m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates and all associated site works at an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installation.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211149

• 13 May 2021N/a

  to construct a fully serviced house, garage and a treatment plant system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works: 171 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21815

• 30 Apr 2021N/a

  for a detached dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21730

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct: 1. A four bay slatted shed with calf creeps, a feeding slab together with an underground slurry storage tank. 2. A manure pit. 3. A silage storage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed: 2638.8 sqm, Manure pit: 120 sqm, Silage slab: 378 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21565

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 244 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21517

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 220 msq & 60 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201572

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, along with on-site sewage treatment system, domestic garage and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 224 sqm, (garage) 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181594

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  to retain dwelling and garage/shed on revised site boundaries from that as granted under Pl. Ref 97/1370. Gross floor space of works to be retained Dwelling & Garage 178sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171146

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 Beagh More.

Recorded monuments

• GA028-002 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA028-055 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland, immediately to the S of exposed bogland. A possible subcircular enclosure (c. 24m E-W; c. 20m N-S) is most clearly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2019. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA028-055----_01.jpg Google Earth image (12 May 2019) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2022

• GA028-057 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), now levelled, is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating from 2009. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA028-057----01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2022) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having dormer attic, and small twentieth-century flat roofed additions to rear and to north end. Windbreak to entrance, having unglazed window openings to sides, and flat concrete roof. Pitched reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge and low rendered chimneystacks. Limewashed walls, framed by painted strips to quoins and plinth. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to three bays of front, having painted render strip to surrounds incised to give texture. Attic window under eaves at front has double timber casement. Enlarged window at west end of façade, and all rear windows, are replacement timber. Square-headed replacement glazed timber door to entrance. Outbuilding to east having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble limestone walls, and lean-to outbuilding with rendered walls.

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 Beagh More, 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 Beagh More.

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 Beagh More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Beagh More · An Bheitheach Mhór

Area

9,349,739 m² (934.97 ha, 2,310.37 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Beaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

394 people lived in 136 households in the Beaghmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrumkilla, Beagh Beg, Bellanagarraun, Boadaun, Caherakeeny, Carheenard, Cloonbar, Cloonnaglasha, Corillaun, Derrymore, Gortnasculloge, Shancloon

Placenames

Beagh More 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.