Grange Beg

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange Beg, from 198 m² to 333,960 m² (33.4 ha, 82.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Grange 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.

• 21 Oct 2021Refused

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of 2 no. wind turbines (turbine tip height of 150m, rotor diameter of 138m) with associated foundations and crane hardstand areas and all associated development including 1 no. substation control building, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast (80m height) and associated foundation, hardstand area and ancillary main crane hardstand area, 1,304m of new internal site service roads, underground electric cabling systems between turbines within the wind farm site, 3.75km of overground electric cabling system and 1.53km of underground electric cabling system between the wind farm site and connection point at existing 38 kV ESBN substation in Boyle, 1 no. new site access/entrance off the L-1248 local road at the western boundary to facilitate construction and access, 1 no. temporary construction site compound (750m2), 4 no. peat / spoil deposition areas for storage of excess excavated peat materials, associated surface water management system, tree felling to facilitate site development, temporary works on sections of the public road network along the turbine delivery route (including hedge or tree cutting, relocation of powerlines / poles, lampposts, signage and local road widening) and all associated site works (an NIS and an EIAR have been submitted in respect of the application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21595

• 26 May 2021N/a

  permission for development which will consist of the construction of 2 no. wind turbines (maximum turbine tip height 160m) with associated foundations and crane hardstand area and all associated development including 1 No. substation control building, 1 No. permanent meteorological mast (80m height) and associated foundation, hardstand area and ancillary main crane hardstand area, 1,304m of new internal site service roads, underground electric cabling systems between turbines within the wind farm site, 3.75km of overground electric cabling system and 1.53km of underground electric cabling system between the wind farm site and connection point at existing 38 kV ESBN substation in Boyle, 1 No. new site access/entrance off the L-1248 local road at the western boundary to facilitate construction and access, 1 No. temporary construction site compound (750m2, 4 No. peat / spoil deposition areas for storage of excess excavated peat materials, associated surface water management system, tree felling to facilitate site development, temporary works on sections of the public road network along the turbine delivery route (including hedge or tree cutting, relocation of powerlines / poles, lampposts, signage and local road widening) and all associated site works( a Natura Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of the application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21276

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 Grange Beg.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-116 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Visible as a vegetation mark (diam. c. 10m) on aerial photographs (ACAP V227/29,30), and situated on top of an E-W ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ring-ditch (RO006-117----) is c. 130m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-117 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Visible as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) with a central pit on aerial photographs (ACAP V227/29,30), and sitauted on top of an E-W ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ring-ditch (RO006-116----) is c. 130m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-001 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On the summit of a drumlin. Subcircular, steep-sided, grass-covered and flat-topped earthen mound (dims of base 24.5m N-S; 22m E-W; diam. of top 2.5m; H 4m at N to 5.7m at S). A band of wet ground (Wth 4.5m) at the base indicates a fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 35m). Embanked enclosure (RO006-118001-) is c. 380m to the NE. 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 Grange 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1235 (ZIP).

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 Grange Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Grange Beg · An Ghráinseach Bheag

Area

2,241,422 m² (224.14 ha, 553.87 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Boyle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boyle Rural electoral division: 1,775 people in 640 households; 74% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnagrange, Ardcorcoran, Ballinphuill, Ballybaun, Ballymore East or Corbally, Ballymore West, Carrownageeragh, Harepark, Knockadoobrusna, Lisserdrea, Termon

Placenames

Grange 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.