Carrigan Beg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigan Beg, from 760 m² to 116,108 m² (11.61 ha, 28.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Carrigan 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 Carrigan 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 Carrigan Beg.

Recorded monuments

• RO045-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of Red Hill and overlooking Lough Ree c. 6 km to the E and the N end of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 600m to the W. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.7m N-S; 32.9m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (at W: Wth 8.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.7m) with traces of facing-stones which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.75m) at E. The interior is bisected by a N-S field wall and townland boundary between Carrigan Beg to the E and Ballagh to the W, which also overlies the perimeter E-S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO045-091---) is c. 60m to the SE. Archaeological testing (08E0867) c. 70m to the NW produced no related material (McCarthy 2012). See the attached aerial view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 29 October 2020

• RO045-091 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the crest of the SE-facing slope of Red Hill with Lough Ree c. 6km to the E and Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 600m to the W. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 25.6m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.4-5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) NNE-S-W which is truncated by a NE-SW field wall and townland boundary with Ballagh at NW, and it does not survive visibly to the NW of it. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO045-090----) is c. 60m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Carrigan Beg.

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

Name

Carrigan Beg · An Carraigín Beag

Area

530,560 m² (53.06 ha, 131.1 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johns, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Carnagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carnagh electoral division: 841 people in 277 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Carrigan More, Lisfelim

Placenames

Carrigan 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.