Bellegrove

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellegrove, from 127 m² to 1,120,564 m² (112.06 ha, 276.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Bellegrove 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.

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  develop Commercial Unit with storage space, office and associated accommodation, car parking, hardstanding, new septic tank and percolation area, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660017

• 6 Jan 2026N/a

  New Commercial Unit with storage space, office and associated accommodation, car parking, hardstanding, new septic tank and percolation area, ancillary site services and all associated site works works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660006

• 19 Sept 2025Refused

  construct New Commercial Unit with storage space, office and associated accommodation, car parking, hardstanding, septic tank and percolation area, ancillary site services and all associated site works works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560601

• 22 Nov 2022Conditional

  alter site boundaries from that granted with planning reference 21/857 and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22714

• 18 Nov 2022N/a

  alter site boundaries from that granted with planning reference 21/857 and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22708

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21857

• 7 May 2021Refused

  a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21299

• 15 Jan 2019Conditional

  change the use of a portion of attached farm building to residential and incorporate same into existing dwelling house including all modifications and renovation work to existing two storey dwelling house, also decommission existing septic tank and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works within the curtilage of protected structure RPS 360

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1915

• 9 Jan 2019N/a

  change the use of portion of attached farm building to residential and incorporate same into existing dwelling house including all modifications and renovation work to existing two storey dwelling house, also decommission existing septic tank and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 198

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  change the use of a portion of attached farm building to residential and incorporate same into existing dwelling house including all modifications and renovation work to existing two storey dwelling house, also decommission existing septic tank and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18783

• 19 Dec 2018N/a

  change the use of a portion of attached farm building to residential and incorporate same into existing dwelling house including all modifications and renovation work to existing two storey dwelling house, also decommission existing septic tank and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18764

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct a one and a half storey dwelling with domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18404

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  change of design/modifidations to previously permitted extension and alterations to existing dwelling house at the Farmyard, Bellgrove, Ballybrittas, Co. Laois. Original application for extension and alterations to dwelling house previously granted as part of planning register reference 17/124. The works as described above are located within the curtilage of or form part oa a historic farmyard complex and protected structure - RPS 360

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18366

• 17 Aug 2017Conditional

  construct a one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, aswaflow wastewater secondary treatment system and polishing filter, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works on lnd which a sterilisation order has been lifted

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17446

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  construct (a) new single storey extension to rear/side of existing dwelling house, (b) works to existing shed along western boundary to include partial conversion consisting of home office and games room with w/c, removal of galvanise sheet roof and replacement with slates to match existing dwelling, partial demolition/extension of existing lean-to fuel store structure to side of said shed including removal of flat roof and construction of new pitched roof over and all associated site development works. The works as described above are located within the curtilage of or form part of a historic farmyard complex and protected structure - RPS 360

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17124

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derries Wood 000416

Recorded monuments

• LA009-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map but hachured as a small oval enclosure (dim. c. 20m NW-SE) on subsequent editions Site levelled; no visible surface remains. Possibly a landscape feature. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Rathdaire House, country house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey over basement Italianate country house, c.1835. Burnt, 1887. In ruins, 1997, with basement filled in.

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 low, 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 Bellegrove.

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 Bellegrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Bellegrove · Baile Phobóil

Area

2,749,677 m² (274.97 ha, 679.46 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Sallyford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sallyford electoral division: 604 people in 199 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyadding, Ballyshaneduff or The Derries, Cappakeel, Coolroe, Rathronshin, Rossmore, Tullaghan

Placenames

Bellegrove 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.