Cloghans Beg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghans Beg, from 9,969 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres) to 474,894 m² (47.49 ha, 117.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Cloghans 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloghans 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghans Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghans Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Cloghans House, farm house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1777, on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged octagonal plan; two-bay two-storey lower recessed wings. "Improved", pre-1893, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1936. Undergoing "restoration", 2010. Pitched slate roofs including gablets centred on octagonal slate roof (breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on red brick Running bond bases with capping now missing, timber bargeboards to gables on chamfered timber spandrels with abbreviated timber finials to apexes including decorative timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on chamfered timber spandrels on thumbnail beaded consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper-covered lime rendered or roughcast walls. Pointed segmental-headed central door opening with limestone flagged threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overpanel. Square-headed flanking window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Pointed segmental-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone sill on thumbnail beaded consoles, timber T-mullion, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having overlight. Paired square-headed window openings (ground floor) with square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor), dragged cut-limestone sills, timber mullions to bipartite openings, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or replacement one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): bow-ended central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping.

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 Cloghans 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 low.

Terrain model

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

No address of the register names Cloghans Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloghans Beg · An Clochán Beag

Area

898,991 m² (89.9 ha, 222.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainemore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghans More, Cloonanaff, Cooleen, Kilshanvy (Co. Galway), Knockroe, Oultauns

Placenames

Cloghans 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.