Skreen Beg

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skreen Beg, from 1,894 m² to 96,673 m² (9.67 ha, 23.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Skreen 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 Skreen 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 Skreen Beg.

Recorded monuments

• SL013-038001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on hillock in undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (dims. 24m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a much denuded earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.4m). From SWNW the bank is absent and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. Break in the bank at E (Wth 4m) with accompanying external ramp marks original entrance. Small quarry holes have been dug into the bank at N and W. House site (see SL013-038002-) is located centrally in the interior. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-038002 House - early medieval
  Description

  Located in the centre of Skreen Beg rath (SL013-038001) is a rectangular house site (dims. 7m E-W; 5.5m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.7m; H 0.4m). Except for a short length at the SE corner the bank is absent on the S side. Break in bank (Wth 3m) in the centre of the E side marks the original entrance. The ground level of the interior is slightly lower than that of the exterior. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-039001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight rise adjacent to farmyard. Raised, roughly circular area (dims. 25m E-W; 22m N-S) enclosed by a narrow earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m). From SW- W the bank has been removed and the defining element is a (H 0.8m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. Break in bank at ENE (Wth 4m) marks original entrance. Extending into the interior from the inner face of the bank at NE is a house site (SL013-039002-) whilst 2m N of the external foot of the rath's enclosing bank is a possible hut site (SL013:039003-). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-039002 House - early medieval
  Description

  Extending into the interior of Skreen Beg rath (SL013-039001-) from the bank at NNE is a roughly rectangular area (dims. 10m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) defined by an inward-facing scarped edge on the NW side. Its NE side is formed by the bank of the rath; its SE and SW sides by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.4m) and its NW side by an inward facing scarped edge (H 0.5m). Break in the bank (Wth 1m) midway along the SW side marks the position of original entrance. At the W half of the site the level of the interior is lower than that of the interior of the rath while on the E side it is level with it. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-039003 Hut site
  Description

  Located 2m to the N of the external foot of the enclosing bank of Skreen Beg rath (SL013-039001-) is a small, raised, roughly square, platform of earth and stone (dim. 3m) whose SE, SW and NW sides are defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and whose NE side is defined by a field wall. There are no remains visible NE of this wall. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-040 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (dims. 19m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by a much denuded bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m). From NE-E the bank has been removed and its circuit is marked by a spread of field clearance rubble. There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skreen 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

At the centre of the townland of Skreen Beg, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skreen 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 Skreen Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Skreen Beg · An Scrín Bheag

Area

389,312 m² (38.93 ha, 96.2 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Toberpatrick West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

306 people lived in 115 households in the Toberpatrick West electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownaknockan, Farranyharpy, Glebe, Laragh, Masreagh, Skreen More, Toberawnaun

Placenames

Skreen 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.