Sheebeg

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheebeg, from 832 m² to 139,604 m² (13.96 ha, 34.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Sheebeg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Sheebeg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Sheebeg.

Recorded monuments

• LE028-014 Cave
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of the main Sheebeg Hill. A feature is described as a ‘Subterraneous Passage’ on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Local folklore as recorded in the Schools’ Manuscripts relates how after a fight with another giant in the area between Sheemore and Sheebeg Fionn Mac Cumhaill retired to a cave where he still rests. See this web-page accessed on 06/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649691/4647714 There is no cave in evidence now. Instead there is a cleft in rock outcrop with a natural spring. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 April, 2017

• LE028-016 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located towards the top of the steep W-facing slope of Sheebeg, just above a shelf on that slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 35.5m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W), but no facing-stones are visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.5m) at SE, and the monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field wall (L 20m) 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

• LE028-018 Cairn - ring-cairn
  Description

  Located on a rise at the N end of the N-S summit ridge of Sheebeg Hill. This cairn is not marked on any map but is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP; H, 76-7) and on subsequent series. It is a grass and scrub- covered subcircular stony platform (diam. 20m N-S; H 0.6-0.8m) separated by a berm (Wth 2-3m) from a grass-covered stone ring-bank (Wth 4.2-5.2m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m). The E part is overgrown with blackthorn (max. ext. diam. 34.5m N-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

• LE028-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a shelf on the W-facing slope of Sheebeg Hill. It is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H, 76-7). This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 26.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.5m) with a wet interior. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at E, but there is no visible fosse. Enclosure (LE028-020----) is c. 55m to the 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

• LE028-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a shelf on the W-facing slope of Sheebeg Hill. It is visible as a D-shaped feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 76-7). It was recorded in 1991 (SMR file) as a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims c. 28m N-S; c. 14m E-W) defined by a slight fosse (Wth 2m) NW-E-SW, but it is truncated by a N-S field bank at W. It was not visible in 1997 but is probably a rath. Rath (LE028-019----) is c. 55m to the N. 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

• LE028-022 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on the highest point at the S end of the N-S ridge of Sheebeg Hill. It is depicted on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as ‘Fin Mc Cool’s Monument’. This is a grass- and scrub-covered flat-topped cairn of limestone boulders (diam. of base 38m; diam. of top 12.9m; H 5m). It has an oblong depression on the summit (L 12m; D 1m), the result of investigations in 1931 when a closed chamber of megalithic orthostats, containing two skeletons, was briefly opened (Irish Times, 7 January 1931; Gilligan 2015). It was reputed in the local folklore to be the burial place of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, which also records the 1931 investigation, for which see this web-page accessed on 06/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649689/4647538 It is listed as a passage tomb (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 143; Herity 1974, 279, Le 8). 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).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheebeg.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Sheebeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Sheebeg · An tSí Bheag

Area

446,488 m² (44.65 ha, 110.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gortnagullion, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortnagullion electoral division: 308 people in 114 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Garvagh, Gowly, Laheen, Letterfine, Loughscur, Shanraw

Placenames

Sheebeg 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.