Flaskagh Beg
Flaskagh Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Fleascach Bheag.
- Area
- 31.3 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 21,797 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flaskagh Beg, from 881 m² to 113,111 m² (11.31 ha, 27.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
No zone of a development plan covers Flaskagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Flaskagh 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.
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 Flaskagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- RO022-061001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise on the floor of and at the head of a slight W-E valley. Circular, domed grass-covered area (diam. 31m WNW-ESE; 28m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) NNE-S, and a scarp (H 1.3-2m) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at SE, and an arc (C 9m) of the base of a stone wall (Wth c. 0.4m) survives at the centre, perhaps a hut-site (RO022-061003-). A fosse or natural depression (Wth of top 13.3m; Wth of base 5m; D at W 1.1m; D at E 1.3m) separates this monument from rath (RO022-061002-) to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-061002 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise on the floor of and at the head of a slight W-E valley. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 29m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by scarps (H 1.3m at W to 2.6m at S), with some stones on the scarp at S. There is no visible bank, fosse or entrance, but the perimeter has been removed by grass-covered quarries E-S. A fosse or natural depression (Wth of top 13.3m; Wth of base 5m; D at W 1.1m; D at E 1.3m) separates this site from rath (RO022-061001-) to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-061003 Hut site
Description
On a rise on the floor of and at the head of a slight W-E valley, and at the centre of rath (RO022-061001-). An arc (C 9m) of the base of a stone wall (T c. 0.4m) is perhaps a hut-site. 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 Flaskagh 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Flaskagh Beg, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Flaskagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Flaskagh Beg · Fleascach Bheag
- Area
- 313,470 m² (31.35 ha, 77.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cloonyquin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boyanagh, Cloonyquin, Flaskagh More, Ross More West
- Placenames
- Flaskagh 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.