# Belesker, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Béal Eiscreach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 616,335 m² (61.63 ha, 152.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,542 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bekan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bekan.md - Barony: Costello - Electoral division: Culnacleha, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 483 people lived in 184 households in the Culnacleha electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36248 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150364 - Centre: latitude 53.73951, longitude -8.850048 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belesker, from 361 m² to 106,407 m² (10.64 ha, 26.29 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1011938: 106,407 m² (10.64 ha, 26.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011938.md - Parcel 929766: 51,814 m² (5.18 ha, 12.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/929766.md - Parcel 991271: 47,588 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991271.md - Parcel 1009350: 47,069 m² (4.71 ha, 11.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009350.md - Parcel 5613765: 43,559 m² (4.36 ha, 10.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5613765.md - Parcel 945429: 36,916 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/945429.md - Parcel 878440: 31,759 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/878440.md - Parcel 984828: 30,943 m² (3.09 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984828.md - Parcel 961837: 30,389 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/961837.md - Parcel 877283: 18,415 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/877283.md - Parcel 875421: 16,295 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875421.md - Parcel 876213: 15,642 m² (1.56 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/876213.md - Parcel 943284: 15,277 m² (1.53 ha, 3.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943284.md - Parcel 943211: 15,268 m² (1.53 ha, 3.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943211.md - Parcel 927268: 14,785 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927268.md - Parcel 928439: 14,542 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/928439.md - Parcel 889871: 10,985 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/889871.md - Parcel 943432: 10,487 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943432.md - Parcel 981593: 10,302 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981593.md - Parcel 943471: 10,201 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943471.md - Parcel 928116: 9,439 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/928116.md - Parcel 872586: 4,188 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872586.md - Parcel 972103: 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972103.md - Parcel 900539: 2,446 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900539.md - Parcel 968957: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/968957.md - Parcel 5543480: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543480.md - Parcel 949081: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949081.md - Parcel 871954: 1,911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/871954.md - Parcel 904738: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/904738.md - Parcel 912823: 1,481 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/912823.md - Parcel 997976: 361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/997976.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Belesker 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) No planning application touches the townland of Belesker in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Belesker. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA102-051: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-051----. In pasture, prominently sited on the highest point on the narrow spine of a steep-sided esker which extends NE–SW in a sinuous line. The location provides excellent views of the surrounding landscape. A small, roughly circular rise (4.4m N–S; 3.2m E–W; H 0.45-0.7m) with a flat top (diam. 1.7m). At NW–SE the side of the mound merge with the steep natural slope of the esker. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belesker. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Belesker, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belesker. - 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/mayo/belesker.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/belesker.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/belesker.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Belesker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bracklagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bracklagh-150436.md - Cloonbulban: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonbulban.md - Cloonlara: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonlara-151008.md - Cloontumper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloontumper.md - Cuilbeg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cuilbeg.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/mayo/belesker - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/belesker