Grallagh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 48.5 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 9,269 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grallagh Beg, from 32 m² to 153,153 m² (15.32 ha, 37.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Grallagh 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
19 Dec 2022Conditional
Retention Permission to retain constructed extensions to the rear and side of dwelling house and a septic tank, as such works are different to that granted by permission with reference 12,513 at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22670
5 Dec 2017Conditional
Planning permission for the creation of a new vehicular agricultural entrance on to lands, together with all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17487
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 Grallagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- RO010-007 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 20.5m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by the grass-covered base of a stone wall (Wth 1.6-1.8m; H 0.1-0.2m) W-N-E, a slight scarp (H 0.2m) at SE and a stone faced scarp at SW. There is no visible entrance, but a NNW-SSE field wall crosses the centre of the 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 Grallagh 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
- About 1 in 5 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 Grallagh 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Grallagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Grallagh Beg
- Area
- 485,408 m² (48.54 ha, 119.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Rushfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rushfield electoral division: 402 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Fawnanierin, Grallagh More, Knockarush, Tullyvohaun
- Placenames
- Grallagh 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.