Ballybeg

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 65 m² to 316,768 m² (31.68 ha, 78.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Ballybeg 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 Ballybeg 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 Ballybeg.

Recorded monuments

• RO028-013001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight SE-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.4m NE-SW; 31.2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 6-8m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m generally to 2.3m at SE), and a fosse (Wth of top 9-9.4m; Wth of base 2.5-4.5m; D 0.3-0.9m) W-N-SE. The original entrance cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-014002 Enclosure
  Description

  On the W bank of a NNW-SSE section of Ogulla stream, c. 220m S of Ogulla holy well (RO022-106002-), and across the stream from moated site (RO028-014001-). Raised rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 43m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m) at SW, field drains at NW and SE and the stream at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a plug of rock outcrop overlooking a W-E section of Ogulla stream immediately to the N. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 37.6m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.5m at E to 5.5m at W; H 0.2-0.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at E, and a quarry inside the perimeter at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016002 Mound
  Description

  On the S bank of a W-E section of Ogulla River in an E-W valley at the N end of field system (RO028-016003-). D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims 15.5m NNE-SSW; 14m WNW-ESE; H 0.3-0.5m) with straight edges at W and N. There is a grass-covered cairn (dims 5.1m WNW-ESE; 4.5m NNE-SSW; H 0.2-0.3m) at the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016003 Field system
  Description

  On a N-facing slope with rock outcrop overlooking a W-E section of the Ogulla River, c. 100m to the N. An area of c. 10 ha (c. 25 acres) contains small rectangular fields (dims c. 30m x c. 40m) defined by earthen banks. There is evidence of larger rectangular fields (dims c. 120m NE-SW; c. 0.7-100m) extending S from the small fields. Souterrain (RO028-016004-) is at the W end of the fields, and hut-site (RO028-016011-) is c. 100m to the W but enclosure (RO028-026006-) and the house-sites (RO028-016005-; RO-028-016007-) are within it. There is a mound (RO028-016002-) on the S bank of the Ogulla stream. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 4 August 2015

• RO028-016004 Souterrain
  Description

  At the crest of a N-facing slope overlooking the Ogulla stream, and at the W end of field system (RO028-016003-). A lintelled but inaccessible passage (dims 2.5m E-W; 1m N-S) extends further E (L 2m) and turns S (L 3.6m) and is visible as a grass-covered collapsed passage. Hut-site (RO028-016011-) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016005 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At the E end of field system (RO028-016----). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 5.4m NW-SE; 2.8m NE-SW) defined by a stone wall-footing (Wth 1m) with a doorway (Wth 0.7m) towards the S end of the NE wall. House (RO028-016007-) is c. 20m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016006 Enclosure
  Description

  On a plateau of rock outcrop within field system (RO-028-016003-). Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 12m E-W; 10m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 1m). It has no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016007 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a plateau of rock outcrop within field system (RO028-016003-). Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 6.2m E-W; 4.5m N-S) defined by scarps (H 0.2m). House (RO028-016005-) is c. 20m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-016011 Hut site
  Description

  On an E-facing slope c. 100m W of souterrain (RO028-016004-). Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 7.4m E-W; 6.6m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; H 0.8m) with a stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.3m) at NE. Archaeological testing (09E0559) c. 140m to the S and on an access road (L c. 350m) produced no related material (Byrne 2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 4 August 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballybeg.

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

Name

Ballybeg

Area

1,339,454 m² (133.95 ha, 330.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ogulla, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Ogulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ogulla electoral division: 399 people in 161 households; 75% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cargin Demesne, Carns, Carrowgarve, Carrownaskeagh, Ogulla, Toomona

Placenames

Ballybeg 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.