Mountbellew Demesne

194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbellew Demesne, from 20 m² to 1,384,099 m² (138.41 ha, 342.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountbellew Demesne 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.

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660761

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater tertiary treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 233 sqm(H), 80.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560986

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a residential development comprising of 30. No. houses. The development will consist of (1) the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling; (2) the construction of 2 no. two-storey four-bedroom detached houses, 3 no. two-storey four-bedroom semi-detached houses, 19 no. two-storey three-bedroom semi-detached houses and 6 no. two storey three-bedroom terrace houses; (3) Provision for a temporary on-site wastewater treatment system and pumping station, prior to discharge to the Uisce Éireann sewer network and Mountbellew Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP); (4) Provision for pedestrian and vehicular connection onto the N63 (Tuam road), via upgrades to the existing access road and junction to the south, together with removal of existing entrance walls; (5) Provision for connection to the public mains water supply, surface water drainage arrangements, provision of public open space areas with play area, homezones and surface parking, private open space areas, internal roads & footpaths, bicycle parking, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments, together with all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 3,864 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 220 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560972

• 7 Mar 2024Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house, waste treatment system, percolation area, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 243.90 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460246

• 4 Mar 2024Refused

  to demolish private garden shed and to construct a store for storage of industrial coatings and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 283.27 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460228

• 4 Sept 2023Refused

  to erect a dwellinghouse (area 243.90sqm), waste treatment system, percolation area, along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361045

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  for alterations & extensions to existing dwellinghouse including: 1. (a) demolition of existing porch to front of existing dwelling, 1. (b) demolition of existing dormers to front existing dwelling, 1. (c) demolition of existing sun lounge to rear of existing dwelling, 2. proposed two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling incorporating hall/link, wc & sun lounge at ground floor level, master bedroom, ensuite & walk in wardrobe at first floor level, 3. (a) proposed rooflights replacing dormer windows to front elevation, 3. (b) proposed front door & glazing replacing porch to front elevation & associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360724

• 10 Apr 2023Refused

  to erect a dwelling house (area 243.90m²), waste treatment system, percolation area along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360364

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  to construct a 2 meter wide walking track, lighting & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360087

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 280.46sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211006

• 11 May 2021Refused

  to construct a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21777

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling, alterations to existing garage and revised boundary treatment. Gross floor space of proposed works: 96.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21637

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 250.5 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21339

• 11 Jan 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a single storey building (gross floor area 100 sq.m) containing two classrooms and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2113

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct two five meter high hurling ball walls with astro turf, fencing and flood lights and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Astroturf: 1170 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 202048

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  for alterations to front of dwelling house to include removal of dormer windows and porch and to fit new velux roof windows, new door and larger windows to front of dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202051

• 15 Dec 2020Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 250.5 sqm, G: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201928

• 10 Nov 2020Refused

  for the construction of a private dwelling house and private garage to include on site sewerage treatment works and all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 289 sqm, Garage 55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201675

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey house and domestic garage and all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 265 sqm, Garage 55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20289

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  to utilize part of the ground floor of the previously permitted supermarket for use as a cake shop/restaurant. Associated services include toilets and storage area. The application also includes permission for new signage to the façade. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 192014

• 12 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct two storey dwelling house and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191257

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  to carry out alterations and construct an extension to dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 55.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19949

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a forest access road and entrance with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181463

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  of a building previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 04/1091 and for use as a private dwelling house. Permission is also sought to retain a shed at rear as a private shed, ancillary to the house. Gross floor space of work to be retained (dwelling house) 293.4 sqm. (shed) 140 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18515

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  to demolish the existing structures & construct a single storey dwelling complete with fuel shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 185 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 124 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18367

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

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 Mountbellew Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA046-068 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA046-070 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA046-070001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Mount Bellew Museum, walled garden, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden laid out c.1820, now in use as a deer park. Comprising coursed random rubble limestone walls with rubble copings and segmental-headed cut limestone openings. Former entrance blocked up with random rubble wall and narrow opening at top. Remains of Bellew House to centre of garden. Two-storey gardener's dwelling, c.1820, with pitched slate roof, built into south wall. Detached single-bay single-storey former estate forge, built c.1820, now in use as museum. Pitched slate roof having stone chimneystack to south-west gable, stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble walls. Triangular-headed windows to north-west and south-east elevations, with tooled limestone sills, rubble voussoirs, and timber multiple-pane casement windows with decorative metal grill over. Triangular-headed entrance to north-west gable with double-leaf timber door having decorative hinges and rubble voussoirs. Set in gravel car park area adjacent to walled garden. Set at edge of estate road in Mountbellew forest park.

• Mount Bellew, foot bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch pedestrian bridge, built c.1850. Cast-iron arch with open oriel motif to spandrel panels. Cast-iron lattice parapets with rose motifs at intersections and flat cast-iron handrail, flanked by pair of bow-top cast-iron open piers with lattice panel between set on ashlar limestone piers. Timber deck set into base of parapets. Set in Mountbellew Forest Park on footpath to site of Mount Bellew House.

• Mount Bellew Mills, mill (water), 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay three-storey former mill building, built c.1860, now used as warehouse, having single-storey rendered twentieth-century extension to east. Double-pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack to west, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to outer two west bays. Squared and snecked ashlar limestone walls with pair of gable-fronts to front façade, random rubble walls to side and rear. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone flat arches above, tooled limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed entrance to outer bays with timber sheeted doors and flat arch above. Pitching doors to central gable, having timber sheeted doors and cut limestone flat arches. Oculus openings to gables. Set parallel to road with yard at front and rear, random rubble retaining wall to front, and recent steel-clad outbuildings to rear.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan limestone Roman Catholic Church, built c.1880, having three-bay nave, gable-fronted transepts, three-stage integrated bell tower to north, and sacristy to west. Pitched natural slate roof with ridge tiles having trefoil piercings, skew corbels and stone copings to gables surmounted by stone crosses, projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed random rubble walls with tooled quoins and lined and ruled rendered bell tower, projecting stone plinth to rear and sides. Lancet window openings with splayed cut-stone surrounds, moulded stone hood-mouldings. Stained-glass leaded windows with stone mullions and oculi to upper segments. Quadripartite stained-glass window with trefoil and cinquefoil tracery. Lancet-headed doorway to east with double-leaf timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges, chamfered tooled stone surround with stepped moulded surround set on chamfered stone plinths, limestone hood-moulding and Reuleaux stone recess with stained-glass oculus above. Pointed-arch openings to bell tower with moulded sills and splayed cut limestone surrounds, and stone tracery to ground floor stained-glass windows. Double light shouldered windows to sacristy. Crenellated upper stage supported on decorative band above dentils set on moulded string course. Ashlar limestone flat buttress to west. Interior has cross groin stone vault to entrance porch at base of bell tower, pointed-arch opening leading to nave. Nave has canted timber sheeted ceiling and timber ribs supported on stone brackets. Cross groin vault above crossing. Raised marble altar to south end of nave with marble altar rails, projecting timber choir balcony supported on brackets to north of nave. Decorative timber lighting brackets to nave. Set back from road with graveyard to north and west, random rubble boundary wall to rear.

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).

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

Name

Mountbellew Demesne · An Creagán

Area

2,244,337 m² (224.43 ha, 554.59 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barnwellsgrove, Bovinion, Cloonreleagh (bellew), Meelick, Shankill, Treanrevagh

Placenames

Mountbellew Demesne on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.