Beltany Mountain
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Sliabh na Bealtaine
- Area
- 424 ha
- 1,048 acres
- Land parcels
- 92
- registered freehold, median 4,426 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beltany Mountain, from 23 m² to 1,366,683 m² (136.67 ha, 337.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Beltany Mountain 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
25 Aug 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661572
20 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661543
10 Aug 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661489
31 Jan 2024Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450032
20 Mar 2023Conditional
(1) LAYING NEW HEAVY GAUGE 63MM DIAMETER WATER SUPPLY PIPE TO REPLACE AND EXTEND EXISTING SUB-STANDARD 2" WATER SUPPLY PIPE AND (2) LAYING NEW 125MM DIAMETER WATER SUPPLY PIPE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350353
29 Nov 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPTIC TANK WITH A PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751786
14 Sept 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPTIC TANK WITH A PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751413
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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
- DG042-003 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Hachured as an oval shaped mound (diam. c. 25m N-S; 19m E-W) which is indicated as 'Doon' on the latest edition of the OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has not been visited. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 17 November 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beltany Mountain.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Beltany Mountain.
- 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 Beltany Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Beltany Mountain · Sliabh na Bealtaine
- Area
- 4,240,400 m² (424.04 ha, 1,047.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Dunlewy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunlewy electoral division: 689 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashelnagor, Dunlewy Near, Fawnaboy, Money Beg, Money More, Procklis
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Beltany Mountain 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.