Begerin (Lloyd)
Townland in the civil parish of Oldross, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Beigéirinn (Lloyd)
- Area
- 81.2 ha
- 201 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 45,240 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Begerin (Lloyd), from 285 m² to 325,744 m² (32.57 ha, 80.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Begerin (Lloyd) 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
2 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviceed dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250513
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 Begerin (Lloyd).
Recorded monuments
- WX030-049001 Moated site
Description
Marked as a circular bivallate enclsoure (ext. diam. c. 65-70m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a slight NW-SE spur in a low-lying landscape with a NW-SE stream c. 60m to the NE. This is a rectangular area (dims. 33m E-W; 28m N-S) planted in coniferous trees and defined by earthen banks (Wth 5.1-6.2m; int. H 1-1.4m; ext H 1.7-2.2m) with external flat bottomed moats (Wth of top 7-9m; Wth of base 2.5-2.7m; ext. D 1.8-2.4m) and counterscarp banks (Wth c. 7m; ext. H 1m) on all sides except the W where the moat (Wth of top 5m; ext. D 0.4m) is much smaller. There is an entrance causeway (Wth 2m; H O.6m) at the W end of the N side and a leat from the SE corner flows off to the SE. Fulacht fia (WX030-049002-) is c. 17m NE of the NE angle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 August, 2012
- WX030-049002 Fulacht fia
Description
Located on the W side of a small valley with the NW-SE stream c. 55m to the NE. This is a grass-covered kidney shaped stony mound with a clay mantle (dims. 16m N-S; 6.7m E-W; H 0.4-0.6m). The moated site (WX030-049001-) is c. 17m to the SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 August, 2012.
- WX030-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight S-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular or D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature but with no visible entrance gap is visible on aerial photographs (MM (54) 9-10) and on digital aerial photographs (WX030-084_1 to _4) taken in 2006. The possible enclosure (WX030-048----) is c. 80m to the NNW, although they may be the same site. WX030-084----_1jpg. from E WX030-084----_2jpg. from W Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Begerin (Lloyd).
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 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 Begerin (Lloyd).
- 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 Begerin (Lloyd) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Begerin (Lloyd) · Beigéirinn (Lloyd)
- Area
- 812,357 m² (81.24 ha, 200.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oldross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Old Ross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Old Ross electoral division: 498 people in 150 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Begerin (Loftus), Cushenstown, Dunanore or Goldentown, Lacken, Millquarter
- Placenames
- Begerin (Lloyd) 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.