Bealnalappa

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bealnalappa, from 701 m² to 103,366 m² (10.34 ha, 25.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bealnalappa 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.

• 29 May 2026Refused

  of a dwelling house, garage and for replacement of original septic tank with a wastewater treatment plant on revised site boundaries and permission is being sought to complete the upgrade of the private wastewater system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660869

• 2 Mar 2026Refused

  for alterations to dwelling house and for replacement of original septic tank with a wastewater treatment plant and permission is being sought to complete the upgrade of the private wastewater system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660320

• 4 Jul 2022Conditional

  for extension to dwelling, alterations to dwelling elevations and for septic tank and percolation area including all associated services. Gross floor space of works to be retained 16.74 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22848

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  for extension to dwelling, alterations to dwelling elevations and for septic tank and percolation area, including all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 16.74 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 22354

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bealnalappa.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bealnalappa.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Bealnalappa, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_345 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Bealnalappa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Bealnalappa · Béal na Leapa

Area

127,222 m² (12.72 ha, 31.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnanure, Laghtgannon, Maghera Beg, Moyvoon East, Moyvoon West

Placenames

Bealnalappa 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.