# Bellcotton, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Termonfeckin, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Láithreach Minsí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 505,402 m² (50.54 ha, 124.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,178 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Termonfeckin, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/termonfeckin.md - Barony: Ferrard - Electoral division: Termonfeckin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34086 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140094 - Centre: latitude 53.773902, longitude -6.293144 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellcotton, from 26 m² to 458,164 m² (45.82 ha, 113.21 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5123513: 458,164 m² (45.82 ha, 113.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123513.md - Parcel 1131255: 18,505 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131255.md - Parcel 5123392: 8,628 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123392.md - Parcel 5614568: 4,414 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5614568.md - Parcel 1135469: 3,990 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135469.md - Parcel 1134925: 3,784 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134925.md - Parcel 1126351: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126351.md - Parcel 1129767: 2,491 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129767.md - Parcel 5123493: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123493.md - Parcel 1127813: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127813.md - Parcel 1113926: 258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113926.md - Parcel 1135952: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135952.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 4 Oct 2025, Louth County Council 2560627: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560627/0 - 7 Jun 2022, Louth County Council 22460: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22460/0 - 11 May 2021, Louth County Council 21560: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21560/0 - 12 Feb 2019, Louth County Council 1986: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/1986/0 - 14 Dec 2018, Louth County Council 181026: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/181026/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellcotton. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellcotton. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellcotton. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3171.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/bellcotton.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/bellcotton.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/bellcotton.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bellcotton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymaglane: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballymaglane.md - Blackhall: https://everytownland.com/louth/blackhall.md - Curstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/curstown.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/louth/milltown-140431.md - Termonfeckin: https://everytownland.com/louth/termonfeckin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/bellcotton - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/bellcotton