Cuilbeg
Cuilbeg is a townland in the civil parish of St. John's, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Choill Bheag.
Parcel 736667
- Area
- 277 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Cuilbeg
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1133 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 35.3 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 1,559 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilbeg, from 32 m² to 117,879 m² (11.79 ha, 29.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Aug 2025Conditional
Albert Higgins chairman, on behalf of Carraroe Community Development Association intend to apply for planning permission for (1) the construction of a new Astro Turf Pitch (2) all associated Floodlights and fencing (3) all associated site works, all at St Johns Park Cuilbeg & Carrownamddoo, Carraroe, County Sligo.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560348
3 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) construct a one storey building, including changing rooms, a recreation space and ancillary spaces; (2) replace the existing wastewater system with a new tertiary waste water treatment system; and (3) conduct all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560080
19 Feb 2021N/a
development consisting of the following (1) to construct a new two storey multi-purpose community facility with a link on first floor only, forming an extension to existing clubhouse building/changing rooms. Ground floor extension to comprise of a gymnasium, WCs, plant/store room, & elevator. First floor extension to comprise of WCs, meeting room, treatment room, store, mutli-purpose social room with kitchen, viewing gallery & balcony (2) construct a new window to first floor of existing western gable. (3) demolish existing lean-to covered shelter on the existing western elevation and to construct a new balcony to existing western gable which will form a new covered seating area on the ground level. (4) construct an enclosed playground area to southern gable of two storey proposal (approximately 135m2) with a 1.2 m high PVC coated weld mesh fence (5) reconnection to existing site services. (6) all associated site develoment works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2146
13 May 2020Conditional
development consisting of (1) the construction of a new Astro Turf Pitch (2) all associated floodlights and fencing (3) all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 20143
18 Oct 2019Conditional
Development consisting of retention to previously granted planning permission, refer PL18/503 to the following:- retention demolition of dwelling house; retention of foundation and block work carried out to date; completion of dwelling house and the installation of waste water treatment with percolation areas, vehicular and pedestrian access and all other associated site and ground work. All of the above will be contained with the confines of the site.
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19431
19 Dec 2018Conditional
for development consisting of 1. Demolition of sheds & out building along the eastern boundary and the single storey extension at the side of the existing two storey uninhabited farm house. 2. Renovation to the two storey uninhabited farm house and the erection of a single & two storey extension with provisions for a stone boundary wall & timber post and fence along the longitudinal eastern boundary. 3. The installation of a new waste water treatment plant and percolation areas. 4. Constructing a vehicular and pedestrian access off the regional road and carrying out all other associated site and grounds works all within the confines of the site
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18503
18 Aug 2017Conditional
construction of ancillary accommodation and associated site works to existing playing pitches including the following: (a) two storey ancillary accommodation comprising of storage & treatment room floor area 63.5msq, (b) ball stop comprising of two 9m tall poles with netting suspended between, 30m apart, located centrally behind the southern Goalmouth only
Extension of duration · Sligo County Council, 12192
9 May 2017Conditional
development consisting of the retention of a single storey domestic garage (TFA 54m2) as constructed
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17169
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 Cuilbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuilbeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuilbeg.
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 Cuilbeg, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1101 (ZIP).
- 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 Cuilbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cuilbeg · An Choill Bheag
- Area
- 353,468 m² (35.35 ha, 87.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. John's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Kilmacowen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,347 people lived in 830 households in the Kilmacowen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghamore Near, Carns, Carrownamaddoo, Tullynagracken South
- Placenames
- Cuilbeg 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.