Kilbeg Lower

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg Lower, from 378 m² to 55,744 m² (5.57 ha, 13.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbeg Lower 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.

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  for habitat development works. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22728

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• GA027-034 Church
  Description

  Near centre of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-). A ruinous medieval church (E-W; L 21m, Wth 6.4m ext.) with two doorways and a broken window in S wall and a trabeate doorway in W gable. There is a small window in N wall, also a broken doorway at its E end giving access to a ruined sacristy. Ivy obscures the 'modern belfry' and window noted by OS Letters in W gable (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 36). There is a late dividing wall, with blocked doorway in the interior. (Purefoy Colles 1870, 268) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA027-034001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA027-034002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In a gently undulating area of woodland close to S shore of Lough Mask. Oval enclosure (E-W 200m, N-S 150m) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Defined by a stone-faced clay and rubble bank (Wth 4-5m, H 0.4m) which has modern entrances at S and WSW. It contains a church (GA027-034----), graveyard (GA027-034001-), cross-inscribed pillar-stone (GA027-034003-) and an inscribed slab (GA027-034004-) (Higgins 1987, 279, 381). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA027-034003 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Located in the graveyard (GA027-034001-) surrounding the church (GA027-034----) and within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 279, no. 10) as a cross-inscribed sandstone pillar (L 1.33m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.22m) partly covered with moss and lichen. Both its E and W faces bear a simple deeply pocked equal-armed cross. The pillar is set in a shallow socket and is most likely in a secondary position. When recorded by Higgins (ibid.) it was almost recumbent. (Purefoy Colles 1870, 268) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 28 May 2018

• GA027-034004 Inscribed slab
  Description

  Originally located in the graveyard (GA027-034001-) surrounding 'Rosshill Abbey' (GA027-034----) and within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 381, no. 101) as a limestone slab bearing the inscription OR DO MAELBRENDAIN. The letters are deeply cut by pocking and the inscription occupies only a small portion of the end of the slab. This slab has since been moved to the church (GA027-27----) in An Fhairche/Clonbur (field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/graveslabs/rosshill-cross-slab last accessed 10 January 2019); see GA027-027001- for present location. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 10 January 2019

Architectural heritage

• Rosshill Lodge, stables, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey former stableyard, built c.1860, having projecting stairway to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched felt roof with cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods and ashlar limestone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with limestone block-and-start surrounds, sills and replacement timber and metal windows. Round-headed window openings to rear having limestone surrounds, voussoirs and sills with replacement timber windows. Round-headed door openings to front having tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber glazed doors and overlights. Square-headed door opening to rear at first floor level having limestone stepped approach and replacement timber glazed door. Elliptical-arch carriageways to front having tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds, voussoirs and keystones having replacement metal doors with timber overdoors. Round-headed door openings to rear under steps, having limestone voussoirs and recent metal doors.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilbeg Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Kilbeg Lower · An Choill Bheag Íochtair

Area

933,870 m² (93.39 ha, 230.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonbur electoral division: 1,267 people in 389 households; 78% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappaghnagapple or Petersburgh, Cloonbur, Fahy, Kilbeg Upper, Rosshill, Rusheen West

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Kilbeg Lower 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.