Killabeg
Townland in the civil parish of Aghowle, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Choill Bheag
- Area
- 173.3 ha
- 428 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 7,871 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killabeg, from 72 m² to 181,061 m² (18.11 ha, 44.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Killabeg 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
22 Apr 2024Conditional
an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling. Permission is sought for retention of erection of a steel framed domestic storage shed and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24190
11 Sept 2023Conditional
extension to rear of existing dwelling with upgrade of sewerage facilities and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23699
3 Mar 2022Conditional
change of use of dwellinghouse from residential use to commercial short term letting use
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22196
3 Feb 2022N/a
change of use of dwelling house from residential use to commercial short term letting use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2290
10 Dec 2019Conditional
change of use of part of community hall (meeting room) to preschool facilities
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191319
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 Killabeg.
Recorded monuments
- WI042-007 Pit-burial
Description
Situated on a low sandy ridge. Sherds of an encrusted urn and a cremation were found in a sand pit. Not visible at ground level. (Riley 1937, 308-9; Waddell 1990, 163) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI042-009001 Church
Description
Situated in woodland on a gentle W-facing slope on the N side of small stream. Poorly preserved rectangular structure (dims. 29m E-W; 10.5m N-S) defined by a low rubble bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.7-0.9m) on the N side of a small rectangular enclosure (dims. 75m E-W; 30m N-S). A holy well (WI042-009002-) lies immediately to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI042-009002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated at the foot of a W/SW-facing slope, 40m SE of the church enclosure (WI042-009001-). Natural spring rising in a slab-lined culvert within a stone-walled embrasure in the roadside. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI042-010 House - 18th/19th century
Description
Indicated on the 1st (1838) ed. 6-inch OS map as ‘Coolkeena Glebe Ho.’ and on the later (1907) ed. as ‘Aghold Rectory’. In 1990 this house was found to be abandoned. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 September 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killabeg.
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 high, 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 Killabeg.
- 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 Killabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Killabeg · An Choill Bheag
- Area
- 1,732,902 m² (173.29 ha, 428.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghowle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Killinure, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killinure electoral division: 369 people in 133 households; 85% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolkenna, Gowle, Kilquiggin, Lumcloon, Quigginroe
- Placenames
- Killabeg 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.