Belleek

143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belleek, from 24 m² to 39,552 m² (3.96 ha, 9.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Belleek 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.

• 5 Oct 2023Refused

  for the demolition of the front porch (3 sqm) & construction of a new single storey flat roofed front extension (18sqm) to accommodate a porch & dining room., also dormer windows to front & rear attic, new opes at 1st floor gable, new bay window at ground level gable, shed to be converted to home office, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361193

• 28 Sept 2023Conditional

  of (1) internal & external alterations to previously granted plans (pl. ref. 98/4323), (2) change of use from previously granted restauraunt & dwellinghouse to a six bedroom guesthouse, (3) construct three timber cabins with individual wastewater treatment systems & a combined polishing filter bed, as well as all ancillary site works & site services. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS, as required by Article 239 of the Planning & Development Regulations, 2001 (as amended)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361168

• 4 Jul 2023Conditional

  (1) an stór breosla láithreach a choinneáil, (2) deiread a chuir leis an gclásal enurement de réir coinníoll uimhir 3, faoi uimhir tagartha pleanála 06/3464

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23267

• 7 Aug 2020Refused

  for a dwellinghouse, garage/shed, and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 131.6 msq & 22.0 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201111

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  for demolition of a substandard house and a shed, to re-grade the site to prevent flood risk, and to construct a new dwelling and septic system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 117.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2062

• 30 Oct 2019Refused

  for the demolition of existing single storey dwelling and construction of a single storey 4-bedroom house with landscaped flat roof, alterations to site entrance and driveway, new on-site water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 282 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 37 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191688

• 23 Aug 2019N/a

  for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 131.6sqm and Garage/Shed 22.0 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191321

• 18 Jan 2019Refused

  for demolition of a substandard house and a shed, and to construct a new dwelling and septic system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 117 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1954

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a new agricultural slatted shed with farm machinery storage area as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 270.48 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181292

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Belleek.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Belleek.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Belleek, 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 high, 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 Belleek.

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 Belleek with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Belleek · Béal Leice

Area

1,260,437 m² (126.04 ha, 311.46 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fahy, Gortrummagh, Knockavally, Lettershanna, Tooreen

Placenames

Belleek 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.