Magherabeg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherabeg, from 542 m² to 409,952 m² (41 ha, 101.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Magherabeg 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Refused

  new two storey dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works including, new on site bored well, new on site waste water treatment system and percolation area, new on site Soakaway for surface water run-off, for forming a new vehicular access from public road to site

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560974

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  Section 254 - Roadside Directional Signs - Location 15 Map WH7

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 21882

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  upgrade an existing sewerage treatment system (septic tank) with a Tricel septic tank, puraflow secondary treatment system and discharge from same to a soil polishing filter

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19868

• 24 Jul 2019N/a

  upgrade an existing sewerage treatment system (septic tank) with a Tricel Septic Tank, Puraflow Secondary Treatment System and discharge from same to a soil polishing filter

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19804

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  conservatory to the rear of house

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18612

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Magherabeg Dunes SAC 001766
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Magherabeg Dunes 001766

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherabeg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magherabeg.

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

At the centre of the townland of Magherabeg, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Magherabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Magherabeg · An Machaire Beag

Area

763,728 m² (76.37 ha, 188.72 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 305 households in the Dunganstown East electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Furzeditch East, Magheramore, Threemilewater

Placenames

Magherabeg 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.