Belan

167 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belan, from 19 m² to 461,271 m² (46.13 ha, 113.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Belan 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.

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  for a Bungalow with domestic waste water treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2696

• 6 May 2026N/a

  Construction of a bungalow with domestic waste water treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2658

• 15 Apr 2026N/a

  A bungalow with domestic waste water treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2650

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  A bungalow with domestic waste water treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25185

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  to erect a slatted underground effluent storage tank and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of retention permission for all structures, farm buildings and underground effluent storage tank erected in the existing farmyard to include the following: No. 1 The A type building approximately 3 meters higher than the lean-to roof granted pl 07/41. No. 2 The straw storage shed st the end of the farmyard: retention permission also sought for existing entrances to the farmyard

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  the erection of a slatted cattle shed with a roofed handling area and the roofing of an existing silage pit with all associated facilities and site works. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of construction of a new recessed entrance with all associated works including the repositioning of any utility poles deemed necessary to provide sightlines. The site boundary is also enlarged to facilitate these works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2398

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  a timber garden shed/store and retention of a metal garage

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22932

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  a) relocation of existing vehicle entrance, b) relocation of driveway, c) relocation of treatment system and percolation area, d) stonework to 2nr gables to front elevation along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 21989

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  for 1) an extension to existing dwelling, 2) modifications to the existing dwelling, 3) domestic garage/store and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21170

• 13 May 2020Conditional

  a single storey detached dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20486

• 8 May 2020N/a

  a single storey detached dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20470

• 8 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct a two car garage and all associated site works at our existing dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191248

• 15 Oct 2019N/a

  to construct a two car garage and all associated site works at our existing dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191137

• 3 May 2019Refused

  a two storey dwelling, detached double domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19491

• 2 Jan 2019Conditional

  for existing dwelling as a one off rural home. Permission is also being sought for alterations to this building and the erection of a front extension to provide two bedrooms and the conversion of an existing bedroom to a lobby. The application includes the relocation of the previously granted effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of; Site boundaries have changed and details of double entrance shown.

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 192

• 17 Nov 2017N/a

  a livestock/cattle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 171288

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 Belan.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-001 Church
  Description

  The grass-covered foundations of a nave (dims. 15m x 9.3m) and chancel (dims. 5.1m x 5.8m) stand on a slight rise in an unenclosed graveyard (KD038-001001-). Fragments of an octagonal, moulded font and octagonal base (KD038-001002-), probably of fifteenth century date, lie in the nave. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-001001 Graveyard
  Description

  The grass-covered foundations of a church (KD038-001----) stand on a slight rise in an unenclosed graveyard. Fragments of an octagonal, moulded font and octagonal base (KD038-001002-), probably of fifteenth century date, lie in the nave. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-001002 Font
  Description

  The grass-covered foundations of a church (KD038-001----) stand on a slight rise in an unenclosed graveyard (KD038-001001-). Fragments of an octagonal, moulded font and octagonal base, probably of fifteenth century date, lie in the nave. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-001003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of possible trivallate ecclesiastical enclosure (approx. diam. 150m) to N of Belan Church (KD038-001----) and graveyard (KD038-001001-) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

• KD038-002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6). Built by Pierce Fitzgerald and demolished by Cromwell (Anon. 1908, 269). No visible trace. On site of the ruins of Belan House which have also been levelled in the 1960s (SMR File). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• KD038-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Jackson records the belief that St. Patrick baptised people at this well, but that there was no tradition of cures or patterns associated with it (1979-80, 151). The corbelled structure covering the well may be ornamental in origin and part of the landscaping of Belan Demesne. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-014 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 60) shows a cropmark of two concentric fosses (est. max. diam. c. 25m) and traces of associated features. No visible trace. Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-029 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 60) shows a cropmark of a small circular area (est. max. diam. c. 15m) defined by a fosse. Possibly a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-063 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP S 134). Date of upload: 16 September 2016

• KD038-064 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Depicted as a circular grove of trees on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated as a grove of trees or as a tree ring of post 1700 date on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Belan Lodge located 580m to NE. Of doubtful antiquity, appears to have been a tree ring or landscape feature of post-1700 date. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork. Visible as a cropmark on OSI aerial photographs. Date of upload: 16 September 2016

• KD038-066 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Eagle Obelisk is a fine, well-maintained folly, attributed to Richard Castle, and designed as an eye-catcher to the nearby Belan House to the south-west. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Obelisk, 1740–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding eagle finial-topped granite ashlar obelisk, extant 1837, on a square plan on granite ashlar pedestal on cross vaulted arcaded base. Set in field.

• Belan Mill, mill (water), 1700–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mill complex, extant 1837, including (north): Detached three-bay three-storey over basement mill with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Disused, 1907. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Camber-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Interior retaining timber beams on timber posts; (south): Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof; pitched (gabled) fibre-cement slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered strips to ends. Square-headed door opening (porch) with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber windows having horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belan.

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.

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

Name

Belan · Biothlann

Area

4,849,100 m² (484.91 ha, 1,198.24 acres)

Civil parish

Belan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Belan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Belan electoral division: 321 people in 110 households; 84% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamony, Ballyvass, Bolton, Grangerosnolvan Lower, Grangerosnolvan Upper, Hobartstown West, Kilkea Lower, Moone

Placenames

Belan 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.