Dunbeggan

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunbeggan, from 28 m² to 530,054 m² (53.01 ha, 130.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Dunbeggan 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.

• 15 May 2026Refused

  proposed new agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660162

• 12 Mar 2026N/a

  a proposed residential development of 30 no. dwelling houses consisting of; 24 no. three bedroom two storey semi-detached type houses of which there are four designs, 6 no. two bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses in two blocks of three units each, proposed access road, boundary fences/walls, green open space, all of which will be accessed via the existing internal road network servicing the existing estate, proposed connections to the existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks servicing the existing estate, boundary fences/walls and all ancillary works whereby design amendments have been made and an appropriate assessment screening has now been submitted as part of this application

  Permission, 30 homes · Longford County Council, 2660078

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  to erect 8 no. flood lights on 4 no. 10 metre high columns on our existing training pitch

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2519

• 7 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with attached garage, boundary wall/fence, entrance drive, suitable wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 23117

• 22 Sept 2023N/a

  proposed construction of 2 no. three bedroom two storey semi-detached type dwelling houses together with proposed connections into the existing services which service the estate in which the proposed development is located and all ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2360143

• 25 Feb 2022Conditional

  the proposed redesign of a previously permitted residential development of 9 no. dwelling house granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL06/123 whereby it is now proposed to construct 12 no. three bedroom two storey semi-detached type dwelling houses in their place, connections into existing services which service the estate in which the proposed development is located and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 12 homes · Longford County Council, 2242

• 8 Oct 2021N/a

  for the proposed construction of 9 no. dwelling houses consisting of 4 no. four bedroom two storey semi-detached type dwelling houses, 5 no. two storey detached type dwelling houses of which there are three different designs and all of which have been previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL06/123, connection into existing services which service the estate in which the proposed development is located and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21290

• 30 Oct 2019N/a

  to convert existing farm buildings into a dwelling house, garage and covered patio area, connection to existing septic tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19281

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  for a change of design of extension to Club House from that granted Planning Permission Ref. No 12/140. The new building to contain 2 No. Dressing Rooms at ground floor level and a Gym at first floor level, also the construction of a Ticket Office adjacent to Club House and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1734

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: Mount Jessop Bog SAC 002202
• Natural Heritage Area: Mount Jessop Bog NHA 001450

Recorded monuments

• LF013-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SSE-facing slope of a low ridge in pasture. Named 'Fort' on the 1837 and 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dunbeggan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Dunbeggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Dunbeggan · Tóin Bheagáin

Area

1,153,320 m² (115.33 ha, 284.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymichan, Cloonkeen, Cloonturk, Craane, Crockaun, Curry, Gragh, Mountjessop, Stonepark

Placenames

Dunbeggan 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.