Belderg More

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belderg More, from 359 m² to 3,313,342 m² (331.33 ha, 818.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Belderg More 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Belderg More in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500

Recorded monuments

• MA005-005 Crannog
  Description

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• MA006-004 Burial ground
  Description

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• MA006-004001 Cist
  Description

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• MA006-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

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• MA006-006 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated along the boggy indented coastline of N Mayo. It has a good view along the coast and is overlooked by higher ground to the S and W. The headland is flanked by a steep gully on either side and a grassy steep slope leads down to the sea to the N. A triangular N-facing headland measuring 30m long and 30m wide is cut off from the mainland by a single earthen bank and ditch. The convex bank is round topped and visible only near either cliff edge. It stands 1.4m above the base of the ditch which is flat bottomed and 4m wide at the top. Only a faint rise in the ground level outside the ditch suggests that there was a counterscarp bank. An entrance causeway crosses the defences near the western cliff edge. Besides this the site is featureless. The interior is flat and level and is partly overgrown with ferns and reeds. The land outside the site is wet and it slopes gently down towards the fort. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA006-007 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated along the N facing coast in an area of hilly bogland. Rising ground overlooks the site from the S. The headland is flanked by gullies into which streams flow on either side, and the view along the coast is excellent. A long narrow finger of land measuring 80m by 15m is cut off from the mainland by a short straight fosse running across the neck. This is 6m in width and is round-bottomed. A 1m high rise in the ground level immediately inside the fosse is the only trace of a bank. An earthen field fence runs along the outside of the fosse, obscuring any trace of a counterscarp bank. There is no trace of an entrance and the interior is featureless. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA006-008 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated on a long ridge-backed promontory jutting out from the deeply indented coastline of N Mayo in an area of hilly bogland. The headland is flanked by steep cliffs and is overlooked by higher ground to the S. There is a good view along the coast and a freshwater stream runs through a nearby gully. A wide shallow curving fosse runs across the neck of the promontory. Its width varies between 4m and 6m and it averages 0.7m in depth. There is no entrance causeway and no trace of any bank. The interior measures 41m across and 104m long. Besides a path running through it, it is quite featureless. One of three promontory forts (MA006-009---, MA006-010---) along N-facing stretch of coastline. The site had not been previously recorded. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA006-009 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated in an area of hilly fertile pastureland and sheep grazing. The W facing headland is overlooked by higher ground inland and is surrounded by sheer cliffs. A stream runs down the cliff face to the E. A roughly circular area measuring 45m E-W by 40m N-S is joined to the mainland by an 8m wide neck of land. This neck shows faint traces of a fosse with a revetted earth and stone bank lying outside the narrowest point of the isthmus. The interior slopes gently down to the NE and is featureless. Recent slippage of material has taken place along the western edge of the garth. One of three promontory forts (MA006-008----, MA 006-010----) along N facing stretch of coastline. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA006-018 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

• MA006-019 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

• MA006-020 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

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• MA006-033 Enclosure
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Saint Teresa's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, completed 1869; extant 1901, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to entrance (south) front. "Improved", 1937. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables on moulded kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves on moulded consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings including paired lancet window openings to chancel (north) with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on ogee label stops framing one-over-one timber sash windows having stained glass margins. Lancet window opening to entrance (south) front with concrete or rendered sill, and concealed dressings with hood moulding over on ogee label stops framing fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins. Interior including vestibule (south); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with timber panelled choir gallery (south), tessellated "quarry tile" central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations, timber boarded vaulted ceiling on carved timber cornice, and curvilinear "floating" chancel arch on "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" corbels framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with "Christogram"-detailed timber panelled altar (1939). Set in landscaped grounds.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Belderg More.

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 More.

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.

No address of the register names Belderg More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Belderg More · Béal Deirg Mór

Area

11,232,544 m² (1,123.25 ha, 2,775.62 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 Beg, Cregganbeg, Cregganmore, Glenglassera, Rathavisteen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Belderg More 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.