Litter Beg

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Litter Beg, from 147 m² to 4,181 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Litter 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.

• 9 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission is sought for (a) The demolition of an existing derelict building

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260912

• 2 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (a) demolition of existing derelict building

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240923

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 Litter Beg.

Recorded monuments

• WX022-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the outer edge of a shelf overlooking a small WNW-ESE stream c. 40m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDR 25). It is not visible at ground level in a root crop. 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: 18 June 2012

Architectural heritage

• Litterbeg House, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Vacant 1901; 1911. Sold, 1922. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) fibre-cement slate roof; hipped fibre-cement slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners; roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation centred on part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation centred on square-headed window openings (half-landings), cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Litter 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.

No address of the register names Litter Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Litter Beg · Leitir Beag

Area

520,790 m² (52.08 ha, 128.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmuckridge, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Killincooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killincooly electoral division: 664 people in 243 households; 73% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarran, Castleannesley, Litter More, Tinteskin, Upton

Placenames

Litter 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.