Bellcotton

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellcotton, from 26 m² to 458,164 m² (45.82 ha, 113.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Bellcotton 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.

• 4 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, flood risk assessment, on site soakaway, new vehicular entrance off existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560627

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 16.12.22**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22460

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a proposed one and a half storey dwelling house with detached garage and landscaping, and the installation of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21560

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of proposed 1 1/2 storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on site well, proprietary waste water treatment system / percolation area, new vehicular access and associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 30/05/2019, to include new vehicular access to public road*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1986

• 14 Dec 2018N/a

  Permission for development to consist of proposed 1 and a half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on-site well, proprietary wastewater treatment system / percolation area, new vehicular access and associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 181026

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 Bellcotton.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellcotton.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3171 (ZIP).

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 Bellcotton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Bellcotton · Láithreach Minsí

Area

505,402 m² (50.54 ha, 124.89 acres)

Civil parish

Termonfeckin, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Termonfeckin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Termonfeckin electoral division: 4,003 people in 1,280 households; 83% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaglane, Blackhall, Curstown, Milltown, Termonfeckin

Placenames

Bellcotton 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.