Bellmount
Bellmount is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmore, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Bellmount.
- Area
- 72.2 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 6,372 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellmount, from 242 m² to 164,200 m² (16.42 ha, 40.57 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 Bellmount 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
14 Oct 2025Conditional
the construction of a domestic shed and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560309
25 Mar 2024Refused
the construction of a Single-Storey Dwelling, septic tank & percolation area, bored well, splayed entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460071
16 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, septic tank & percolation area, new bored well, new domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21502
28 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, appropriate waste water treatment system, bored well, new entrance, domestic storage shed and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19469
7 Aug 2018Conditional
to construct a cattle/straw shed and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18315
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 Bellmount.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellmount.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellmount.
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 Bellmount, about 1 in 5 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 Bellmount.
- 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 Bellmount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Bellmount · Bellmount
- Area
- 722,383 m² (72.24 ha, 178.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Clonmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 548 people lived in 199 households in the Clonmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellshill, Carrick (Co. Wicklow), Knockatomcoyle (Co. Wicklow), Minvaud Lower, Minvaud Upper, Redbog
- Placenames
- Bellmount 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.