Belderg Beg
Belderg Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Doonfeeny, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Béal Deirg Beag.
- Area
- 307.5 ha
- 760 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 9,195 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belderg Beg, from 102 m² to 1,402,007 m² (140.2 ha, 346.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Belderg Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 May 2026Conditional
conversion of existing workshop, turf shed and storage facilites to domestic 2 bedroom accommodation and also include new septic tank facilites and ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26105
12 Feb 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Construction of animal handling yard and cattle crush
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2546
22 Jun 2023Conditional
construction of extension to front of existing dwelling house, renovation of existing dwelling with waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and construction of domestic shed to side of dwelling
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23350
25 Feb 2022Conditional
EXTEND TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING TO ALLOW FOR WHEELCHAIR ACCESS TO THE EXTENSION AND INCLUDE DISABLED ACCOMMODATION, BEDROOM, BATHROOM & REST AREA, AND ASSOCAITED ALTERATIONS TO ALL ELEVATIONS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22138
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Belderg Beg.
Recorded monuments
- MA005-010001 Field system
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.
- MA005-010002 House - prehistoric
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.
- MA005-010003 Enclosure
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.
- MA005-010004 Cultivation ridges
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.
- MA005-010005 Field boundary
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.
- MA005-011 Enclosure
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
- Belderg National School, school, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey national school, dated 1879; opened 1879; extant 1901, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch. Closed 1965. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs on an L-shaped plan including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gable with rendered chimney stack to apex (south) having chamfered capping supporting terracotta pot, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from road in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Belderg Beg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belderg Beg.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Belderg Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Belderg Beg · Béal Deirg Beag
- Area
- 3,074,720 m² (307.47 ha, 759.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doonfeeny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Beldergmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 150 people lived in 58 households in the Beldergmore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 5% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belderg More, Cregganbeg, Geevraun, Glinsk
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Belderg Beg 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.