# Magherabeg, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Machaire Beag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 763,728 m² (76.37 ha, 188.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,445 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55362 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251022 - Centre: latitude 52.925884, longitude -6.035069 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherabeg, from 542 m² to 409,952 m² (41 ha, 101.3 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278694: 409,952 m² (41 ha, 101.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278694.md - Parcel 1282965: 161,796 m² (16.18 ha, 39.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282965.md - Parcel 1278700: 60,780 m² (6.08 ha, 15.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278700.md - Parcel 1281963: 28,356 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281963.md - Parcel 1274905: 26,242 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274905.md - Parcel 1284046: 25,228 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284046.md - Parcel 1259027: 22,274 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259027.md - Parcel 1297798: 20,691 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297798.md - Parcel 1277237: 20,199 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277237.md - Parcel 1260030: 18,991 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260030.md - Parcel 1292450: 11,678 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292450.md - Parcel 1262169: 6,933 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262169.md - Parcel 1289341: 1,374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289341.md - Parcel 1271477: 906 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271477.md - Parcel 1294725: 714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294725.md - Parcel 1284411: 542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284411.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 2 Dec 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560974: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560974/0 - 15 Jul 2021, Wicklow County Council 21882: Conditional. N/a. Section 254 - Roadside Directional Signs - Location 15 Map WH7. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21882/0 - 8 Aug 2019, Wicklow County Council 19868: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19868/0 - 24 Jul 2019, Wicklow County Council 19804: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19804/0 - 5 Jun 2018, Wicklow County Council 18612: Conditional. Retention. conservatory to the rear of house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18612/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Magherabeg Dunes SAC, site code 001766, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001766 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Magherabeg Dunes, site code 001766 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherabeg. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magherabeg. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/magherabeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/magherabeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/magherabeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Magherabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Furzeditch East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/furzeditch-east.md - Magheramore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/magheramore.md - Threemilewater: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/threemilewater.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/magherabeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/magherabeg