# Bellsgrove, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymachugh, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan; in Irish Garrán Bell. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,319,090 m² (131.91 ha, 325.95 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,037 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymachugh, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/ballymachugh.md - Barony: Clanmahon - Electoral division: Ballymachugh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 838 people lived in 276 households in the Ballymachugh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4446 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20166 - Centre: latitude 53.831087, longitude -7.340851 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellsgrove, from 65 m² to 80,761 m² (8.08 ha, 19.96 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 433604: 80,761 m² (8.08 ha, 19.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433604.md - Parcel 485493: 57,673 m² (5.77 ha, 14.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485493.md - Parcel 486064: 54,993 m² (5.5 ha, 13.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486064.md - Parcel 490749: 51,164 m² (5.12 ha, 12.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490749.md - Parcel 446435: 49,879 m² (4.99 ha, 12.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446435.md - Parcel 468892: 49,163 m² (4.92 ha, 12.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468892.md - Parcel 450570: 43,243 m² (4.32 ha, 10.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450570.md - Parcel 2405554: 29,783 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2405554.md - Parcel 435323: 27,253 m² (2.73 ha, 6.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435323.md - Parcel 448922: 22,741 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448922.md - Parcel 468067: 19,910 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468067.md - Parcel 477741: 19,230 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477741.md - Parcel 454731: 18,747 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454731.md - Parcel 442190: 11,664 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442190.md - Parcel 488509: 10,222 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488509.md - Parcel 454787: 10,057 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454787.md - Parcel 436398: 10,017 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436398.md - Parcel 460832: 8,762 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/460832.md - Parcel 478001: 4,457 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478001.md - Parcel 487166: 4,288 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487166.md - Parcel 3311946: 3,994 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3311946.md - Parcel 485160: 3,878 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485160.md - Parcel 5025515: 3,255 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5025515.md - Parcel 481851: 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481851.md - Parcel 453733: 2,302 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/453733.md - Parcel 462017: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/462017.md - Parcel 445016: 1,906 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/445016.md - Parcel 488784: 1,614 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/488784.md - Parcel 447531: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447531.md - Parcel 3117838: 851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3117838.md - Parcel 5892162: 464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5892162.md - Parcel 474142: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/474142.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bellsgrove 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 May 2026, Cavan County Council 2618: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain (1) Changes made to site from previously approved planning reference no. 05/934, from 6no. housing scheme to as constructed 1no. house now on site (2) Amendments and alterations to existing site previously approved under planning reference no. 05/934 (3) Amendments made to existing entrance and access arrangements to house (4) Associated site and ancillary amendments and changes made. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2618/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Cavan County Council 2460428: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a change of use from existing disused community hall to a fully serviced dwelling, works to include the erection of a fully serviced extension to the rear of existing building, form new entrance, upgrade sewerage treatment unit, percolation area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460428/0 - 5 Oct 2022, Cavan County Council 22409: Conditional. Permission. for a change of use from existing disused community hall to a fully serviced dwelling and planning permission is sought to erect fully serviced extension with attic accommodation to the rear of existing building, form new entrance, upgrade sewerage treatment unit, percolation area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22409/0 - 26 May 2021, Cavan County Council 21315: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct dwellinghouse comprising two-storey and single storey, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21315/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA, site code 004065, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004065 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin, site code 000987 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV037-010: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV037-010----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CV037-011: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV037-011----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CV037-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV037-012----. Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Apparently originally circular (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse. From E-S-SW the perimeter has been much modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Otherwise, nothing visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellsgrove. ## 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 Bellsgrove, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellsgrove. - 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/cavan/bellsgrove.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/bellsgrove.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/bellsgrove.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bellsgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghacreevy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghacreevy.md - Ballyheelan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballyheelan.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/cavan/glebe-21152.md - Kilnahard: https://everytownland.com/cavan/kilnahard.md - Lavagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lavagh.md - Omard: https://everytownland.com/cavan/omard.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/cavan/bellsgrove - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/bellsgrove