Puntabeg

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Puntabeg, from 2,588 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 72,883 m² (7.29 ha, 18.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Puntabeg 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.

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  demolition of existing derelict cottage, construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank effluent treatment system and percolation area along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23672

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 Puntabeg.

Recorded monuments

• MA063-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the W boundary of the townland, located on a low rise with a gentle slope to E. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, incorporated into the townland boundary on the W side, and on the 1920 edition as a penannular hachured area open to the SW. It has been partly levelled. The outline of roughly semi-circular area (25.8m NW–SE), representing the N half of the original enclosure, can still be discerned, defined by a levelled scarp. At SW–NW the scarp is reduced to a slight rise, faced externally by the extant townland boundary wall. At N–E the scarp (Wth slope 5.5m; ext. H 1m, at NE) has a broadly slumped slope, and is overlain at NE by a modern shed. The S-SSW section of the enclosure can no longer be traced. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to the SW boundary of the townland, utilising a prominent natural rise, with a pronounced fall of ground on the S side. The location provides commanding views over the surrounding gently undulating terrain, and along the E−W course of the Bracklagh River, which is 80m to S. The rath is evident as a flat-topped oval platform (55.5m NW–SE; 36m NE–SW) defined by a scarp (H 1m), which is enhance on the S half by the pronounced natural fall of ground. Stones protrude along the top of the scarp around the circuit. At S–W a low stony rise (Wth c. 3m) tops the scarp, with a number of large stones protruding along the top edge of the external slope, possibly the remnants of a wall; This may be remnants of the townland boundary as shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, which at that time intersected with the W side of the rath. The present-day townland boundary lies c. 30-40m to W of the rath. The interior is level, but has an uneven surface. The location of the original entrance is not obvious –one possibility is that it was somewhere on the NE arc where the exterior slope is lowest. There is a small sod-covered stony rise in the centre of the interior, possibly a field clearance heap. At the E, on the line of the scarp there is an irregular-shaped hollow (max. dim. c. 8m; D c. 0.7m) which, according to local tradition, marks the site of a ‘cave’ or souterrain (MA063-021002-) Sand has been quarried from the slope of the knoll, leaving irregular-shaped quarry pits, which abut the edge of the rath at NNE (max. dim. c. 25m), at S (diam. c. 15m), at NW (max. dim. c. 15-20m). On the 1920 OS 6-inch map the rath and the surrounding field are shown planted with trees; these have been removed, although a number of decaying tree stumps can still be seen in parts. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-021002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA063-021001-). According to local tradition, an irregular-shaped hollow (c. 8m N−S; 3m E−W; D c. 0.7m), located on the line of the rath scarp at E, is the location of a souterrain. No structural remains of a souterrain are evident at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Puntabeg, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_825 (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.

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

Name

Puntabeg · An Punta Beag

Area

613,671 m² (61.37 ha, 151.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilbeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,068 people lived in 435 households in the Kilbeagh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklagh, Bulcaun, Cloonmeen West, Lecarrow, Speck, Temple

Placenames

Puntabeg 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.