Kilbeg

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg, from 27 m² to 316,256 m² (31.63 ha, 78.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Kilbeg 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.

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21590

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  Open New Argicultural Entrance

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21507

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  BUILDING A FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE A NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASOCIATED SITE-WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21489

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 Kilbeg.

Recorded monuments

• WM037-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hill, in pasture, with wide views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which is immediately E of the Offaly-Westmeath county boundary. Bivallate ringfort described in 1973 as a fairly regular circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is wide and low and is visible from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. A shallow intervening fosse is present from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. A low outer bank is visible from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and the surface is fairly even. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM037-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on SW-facing slope of a ridge running E-W, in pasture, with good views to S, W and NW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large roughly circular-shaped earthwork with a rectangular-shaped building abutting to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 41m ENE-WSW; 36m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp with slight traces of an external fosse only visible from NW-N-NE. No clear entrance feature visible. The monument is fully enclosed by a field fence from NE-E-S-W. At W, NW, N and NNE. There are livestock gaps at W, NW, N and NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope with evidence of rock outcrop close to the surface. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1863, carrying former Midland Great Western Railway Streamstown Junction to Clara railway line over stream. No longer in active use. Constructed of rusticated limestone with rock-faced voussoirs to arch. Parapet walls constructed of rubble limestone. Splayed rusticated limestone retaining walls to either side. Located to the north of Horseleap.

• Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, bell tower/stand, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding wrought- iron belfry, erected c.1820. Pitched slate roof supported on metal framework with timber louvered vents to side walls at high level, surrounding cast-iron church bell. Mounted on concrete platform located in prominent position in the graveyard to rear of SS Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic chapel, Horseleap.

• House, 1820–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house/post office, built c.1830, having a timber shopfront attached to the west end, c.1900. Pitched slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Wet dash rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth and raised rendered block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and rendered reveals having one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered jambs, plain glass overlight and replacement glazed timber door. Limestone step to road. Square-headed window opening to shopfront having rendered stallriser with three fixed pane windows with timber mullions over. Square-headed door opening to the west side of shopfront having plain glass overlight and original timber double doors. Shopfront to east end comprising pilasters (with inset panels) with console brackets over supporting timber fascia having moulded timber cornice over with dentil blocks. Simple script to fascia reading ‘’HORSELEAP POST OFFICE’. Road fronted to the south of the main Dublin to Galway road.

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).

No address of the register names Kilbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilbeg

Area

2,447,660 m² (244.77 ha, 604.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnurcher, Ardnurcher Glebe (Co. Offaly), Ballynakill Big (Co. Offaly), Ballynakill Little (Co. Offaly), Cappydonnell Little (Co. Offaly), Cloonymurrikin, Coolalough, Correagh, Meeldrum

Placenames

Kilbeg on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.