Paulbeg
Paulbeg is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 154.5 ha
- 382 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 10,191 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paulbeg, from 60 m² to 369,086 m² (36.91 ha, 91.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Paulbeg 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
10 Feb 2023Refused
freestanding sign
13 Mar 2018Conditional
reduce the size of existing vehicular access gateway and driveway to the south of the existing vehicular entrance, minor modifications to roadside grass verge and earth embankment to include trimming of existing hedgerow to provide required sightlines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18258
16 May 2017Refused
reduce the size of our existing vehicular access gateway to a pedestrian only entrance and to form a new vehicular access gateway to the south of the existing entrance, realignment of roadside boundary to provide required sightlines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17549
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 Paulbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Paulbeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Paulbeg.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Paulbeg, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Paulbeg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Paulbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Paulbeg
- Area
- 1,544,519 m² (154.45 ha, 381.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Coolattin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 286 people lived in 100 households in the Coolattin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykelly, Coolattin, Coolattin Park, Coolboy, Hillbrook Lower, Hillbrook Upper, Kilcavan Upper, Parkmore (Page), Stoops, Tomacork
- Placenames
- Paulbeg 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.