Belalt North
Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 547.3 ha
- 1,352 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 21,430 m² (2.14 ha, 5.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belalt North, from 36 m² to 1,639,229 m² (163.92 ha, 405.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Belalt North 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
12 Sept 2024Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF REAR ANNEX, THE LINKING AND CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING BARN TO ACCOMMODATION, THE INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461416
24 Apr 2024Refused
(1) RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, (2) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF REAR ANNEX AND THE LINKING AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING BARN TO ACCOMMODATION AND (3) INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460581
22 Jun 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, RECONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND GARAGE, AND RECONNECTION OF ALL SERVICES TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350883
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Tamur Bog SAC 001992
- Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fad Bog NHA 001159
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tamur Bog 001992
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Belalt North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belalt North.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Belalt North.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belalt North.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Belalt North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Belalt North
- Area
- 5,473,056 m² (547.31 ha, 1,352.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Templecarn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belalt South, Carntressy, Loughultan, Meensheefin, Tamur
- Placenames
- Belalt North 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.