Carrigan Beg
Carrigan Beg is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johns, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is An Carraigín Beag.
Parcel 643984
- Area
- 1,839 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 192 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Carrigan Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 53.1 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 5,108 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigan Beg, from 760 m² to 116,108 m² (11.61 ha, 28.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrigan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Carrigan Beg 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrigan Beg.
Recorded monuments
- RO045-090 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of Red Hill and overlooking Lough Ree c. 6 km to the E and the N end of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 600m to the W. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.7m N-S; 32.9m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (at W: Wth 8.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.7m) with traces of facing-stones which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.75m) at E. The interior is bisected by a N-S field wall and townland boundary between Carrigan Beg to the E and Ballagh to the W, which also overlies the perimeter E-S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO045-091---) is c. 60m to the SE. Archaeological testing (08E0867) c. 70m to the NW produced no related material (McCarthy 2012). See the attached aerial view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 29 October 2020
- RO045-091 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On the crest of the SE-facing slope of Red Hill with Lough Ree c. 6km to the E and Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 600m to the W. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 25.6m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.4-5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) NNE-S-W which is truncated by a NE-SW field wall and townland boundary with Ballagh at NW, and it does not survive visibly to the NW of it. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO045-090----) is c. 60m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrigan 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrigan 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrigan 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrigan Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigan Beg · An Carraigín Beag
- Area
- 530,560 m² (53.06 ha, 131.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Carnagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 841 people lived in 277 households in the Carnagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Carrigan More, Lisfelim
- Placenames
- Carrigan 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.