Fenagh Beg

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fenagh Beg, from 111 m² to 92,878 m² (9.29 ha, 22.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jan 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission sought for: new childcare facility, to incorporate within the facility: (A) (i) formal entrance, (ii) reception and hallway, (iii) woddler/toddler room, with 2 no. attached toilets, 1 no. sleep room, baby changing area, milk kitchen room, (iv) classroom for children aged approximately 3 to 6 years of age, with 2 no. attached toilets, (v) breakfast room/after-school room (for children aged approximately 5+ years), with 3 no. attached toilets, (vi) kitchen, (vii) utility room, (viii) canteen, (ix) buggy store room, (x) plant room/toy store, (xi) 1 no. disabled toilet/staff toilet, and 1 no. staff toilet, (xii) with additional 1 no. toilet that can be accessed from the external play area, (xiii) with storage area in roof area, that is accessed by a pull-down ladder. (B) (i) proposed new stone bellmouth entrance, piers, and walls, from the R209 road, (ii) internal roads and turning heads within the development, (iii) car parking, (iv) 3 no. external play areas with security fencing, (v) bin storage area, (vi) associated signage for facility, (vii) with connection to existing main foul sewer, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560011

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  a storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21216

• 12 Aug 2019Conditional

  erect fully serviced single storey entrance porch to side of existing visitors centre and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19172

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  construct 3 Bay Slatted Livestock Unit with concrete aprons including all ancillary works necessary to complete the development

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18258

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 Fenagh Beg.

Recorded monuments

• LE024-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  located on a rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape with rock outcrop and c. 100m from the SW shore of Lough Reane. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 45m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a low, earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 4.5m; H 0.2m at S) that is overgrown W-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the monument is overlain by an E-W field bank towards the perimeter at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-088 Mound
  Description

  Situated in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. It was described in the 1830s as a small enclosure with a mound at its centre (OSNB, No. 83), and in 1944 as a small flat-topped platform (dims of top c. 7m E-W; c. 6m N-S; diam. of base c. 10m; H c. 1m) (OSFM). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in the front garden of a house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-092 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop at the W edge of a N-S ravine (Wth of top c. 100m). A low grass-covered cairn (dims 31.5m N-S; c. 9.5m E-W; max. H 1m) contains a chamber (L 2.4m; Wth 2.2m; H 0.85m) at the S end composed of two portal-stones, two sidestones, a backstone and roofstone. The passage tombs (LE025-093001-; LE025-093002-) and a cairn (LE025-093003-) lie c. 120m to the S. This is perhaps the best known and most visually stunning of the megalithic tombs in County Leitrim, and it has been sketched by artists since the early nineteenth century (Stalley 1991, 150-52). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 193-4; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 73-4) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE025-093001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an area of rock outcrop and pasture on the W side of a N-S ravine (Wth c. 100m) that is sometimes the SE end of a turlough extending from Lough Reane, which is c. 800m to the NW. This is a rectangular grass-covered cairn (dims of base 15.7m N-S; 11.9m E-W; dims of top 8.2m N-S; 5.4m E-W; H 0.45m at E to 1.7m at S) with kerbstones on the perimeter at N and a chamber (dims 0.8m x 1.1m) at the centre. Cremated bone, six bone pendants, the head of a bone pin, and one quartz and two chalk balls were recovered from the cairn in 1928 (Gogan 1930, 90). The passage tomb (LE025-093002-) lies c. 25m to the SE, the cairn (LE025-093003-) is c. 50m to the SW, and the portal tomb (LE025-092----) is c. 120m to the N. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 142; Herity 1974, 277-8, Le 3) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE025-093002 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on a local prominence in pasture and scrub on the W side of a N-S ravine (Wth c. 100m) that is sometimes the SE end of a turlough extending from Lough Reane, which is c. 800m to the NW. This is a subcircular cairn (dims 14.5m N-S; 13m E-W; H 1.5m-1.7m) with a polygonal chamber (dims 1.3m x 1.3m) protruding from the top of the cairn and the remains of a passage off to the SE. The passage tomb (LE025-093001-) is c. 25m to the NW, a cairn (LE025-093003-) is c. 40m to the WSW and the portal tomb (LE025-092----) is c. 140m to the N. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 142; Herity 1974, 277, Le 1) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE025-093003 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated c. 80m from the W side of a N-S ravine. This is an overgrown circular rise (diam. c. 10m; H c. 0.5m) which may be the end of a slight ridge. It is overlain by an E-W field wall. Passage tomb (LE025-093001-) is c. 50m to the NE and the passage tomb (LE025-093002-) is c. 40m to the ENE. (Herity 1974, 277, Le 2) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-094 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated in an undulating pasture with rock outcrop. It is marked only on the revised 1944 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it had been moved c. 30m SE to its present position (OSFM). The stump of a limestone slab remains (dims c. 1.2m x 0.3m; H 0.6m). Archaeological testing (00E0487) c. 50m to the S failed to reveal any associated features (Read 2002a), and testing (03E0956) c. 50m to the NW had a similar result (Timoney 2006). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detatched three-bay single-storey house, built c.1780. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered coping. Limewashed random stone walls. Narrow window openings with replacment timber windows. Porch with replacement timber door.

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, with 1990s pubfront and flat-roofed extensions to east end and rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with stucco quoins on rendered plinth. Replacement timber windows. Round-headed door opening with stucco surround and keystone. Replacement timber door with spoked fanlight. Sandstone and limestone pavement slabs to front of site.

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 Fenagh 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Name

Fenagh Beg · Fíonach Beag

Area

1,212,872 m² (121.29 ha, 299.71 acres)

Civil parish

Fenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Fenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 142 households in the Fenagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavadden, Commons, Corlough, Cuillagh, Drumlaheen, Mullaghnameely, Tully

Placenames

Fenagh 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.