Bellina
Bellina is a townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Béal an Átha.
- Area
- 64.6 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 203
- registered freehold, median 427 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
203 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellina, from 5 m² to 102,365 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 65 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 Bellina 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
13 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING FENESTRATION, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660865
22 Dec 2025Conditional
RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO AND RAISING THE ROOF LEVEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562317
12 Nov 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461821
4 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460814
29 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351470
31 May 2023Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350777
19 Jan 2023Conditional
CONVERSION OF ONE BUNGALOW DWELLING TO TWO SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2350038
31 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051206
18 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851603
19 Jul 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851108
2 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 4 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 1850117
19 May 2017Unconditional
EXISTING SUNROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750780
3 May 2017N/a
AN EXISTING SUNROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750662
15 Feb 2017Unconditional
(i) PÁIRC UILE-AIMSEARTHA A THÓGÁIL, (ii) FOIRGNEAMH SEOMRA FEISTIS A THÓGÁIL, (iii) TUILSOILSE 12m AR AIRDE A THÓGÁIL, (iv) SCONSA 5m AR AIRDE A THÓGÁIL, AGUS (v) OIBREACHTA SUÍMH A DHÉANAMH, AR AN LÁTHAIR SEO
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1750204
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyness Bay 001090
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellina.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellina.
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 Bellina, 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 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 Bellina.
- 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 Bellina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Bellina · Béal an Átha
- Area
- 645,790 m² (64.58 ha, 159.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Cross Roads, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,071 people lived in 867 households in the Cross Roads electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Ballyconnell, Ballyness, Calhame, Craigtown, Falcarragh, Killult, Tullaghobegly Irish
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Bellina 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.