Belfarsad

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belfarsad, from 221 m² to 66,606 m² (6.66 ha, 16.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Belfarsad 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.

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with new treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23599

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  RENOVATE AND EXTEND THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING UPGRADE TO SEPTIC TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22942

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: Corraun Plateau SAC 000485
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau 000485

Recorded monuments

• MA065-004 Church
  Description

  In pasture, located 40m from the E shoreline of Achill Sound. This 19th-century church is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but is indicated on the 1920 edition as 'R.C. Church'. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 July 2015

Architectural heritage

• Belfarsad Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1854-6; dated 1858, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1960. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with remains of cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-sandstone eaves. Roughcast walls on tooled cut-sandstone chamfered plinth with tooled sandstone ashlar stepped buttresses including tooled sandstone ashlar diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having tooled cut-sandstone "slated" coping. Lancet window openings between tooled cut-sandstone stepped buttresses with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone surrounds. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone surrounds framing remains of timber fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front below drag edged cut-limestone shield date stone ("1858") with dragged cut-sandstone surround having chamfered reveals framing iron gate. Lancet window opening (gable) with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone surround. Interior in ruins retaining ruled and lined surface finish. Set in unkempt 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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belfarsad.

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 Belfarsad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Belfarsad · Béal Feirste

Area

2,821,483 m² (282.15 ha, 697.2 acres)

Civil parish

Achill, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Corraun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corraun electoral division: 712 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolinglanna, Mweewillin, Pollranny (Sweeny), Srahmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Belfarsad 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.