Arragh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Loughkeen, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Arrach Bheag
- Area
- 141.6 ha
- 350 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 50,313 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arragh Beg, from 1,720 m² to 382,108 m² (38.21 ha, 94.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Arragh 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
8 Aug 2017Conditional
construction of a reinforced concrete underground storage tank, concrete access road, pumped irrigation system and all associated facilities and site works. The tank will be used for the storage of waste products from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing prior to irrigation on adjacent willow plantation. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with the application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600888
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 Arragh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- TN008-003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside with a small stream to the N. A small circular area (diam. N-S 21m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) which has been reduced to a scarp in places. The bank of the site from N through E to S is used as the W boundary of two small fields. No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Arragh 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 Arragh 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 Arragh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Arragh Beg · Arrach Bheag
- Area
- 1,416,142 m² (141.61 ha, 349.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingarry electoral division: 579 people in 215 households; 83% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arragh More, Clohaskin, Faddan More, Gurteen, Lacka
- Placenames
- Arragh 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.