# Belfarsad, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Béal Feirste.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,821,483 m² (282.15 ha, 697.2 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Achill, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/achill.md
- Barony: Burrishoole
- Electoral division: Corraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37016
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150365
- Centre: latitude 53.915507, longitude -9.897112 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belfarsad, from 221 m² to 66,606 m² (6.66 ha, 16.46 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 910580: 66,606 m² (6.66 ha, 16.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910580.md
- Parcel 891245: 52,890 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891245.md
- Parcel 880273: 40,019 m² (4 ha, 9.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880273.md
- Parcel 975406: 30,275 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/975406.md
- Parcel 943902: 29,917 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943902.md
- Parcel 931149: 29,251 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/931149.md
- Parcel 990973: 28,318 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990973.md
- Parcel 985330: 23,267 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985330.md
- Parcel 4682161: 22,888 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4682161.md
- Parcel 1003505: 19,308 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003505.md
- Parcel 907054: 14,621 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/907054.md
- Parcel 964546: 13,886 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/964546.md
- Parcel 956572: 13,782 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/956572.md
- Parcel 900150: 13,424 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900150.md
- Parcel 1001510: 12,992 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001510.md
- Parcel 912537: 9,910 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/912537.md
- Parcel 941255: 9,824 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941255.md
- Parcel 872222: 9,778 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872222.md
- Parcel 1000569: 9,667 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000569.md
- Parcel 884966: 8,898 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884966.md
- Parcel 997740: 8,753 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997740.md
- Parcel 990356: 8,733 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990356.md
- Parcel 888826: 8,726 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888826.md
- Parcel 963276: 8,472 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963276.md
- Parcel 4682230: 7,580 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4682230.md
- Parcel 988536: 6,992 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988536.md
- Parcel 923919: 6,489 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923919.md
- Parcel 932931: 6,196 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932931.md
- Parcel 988131: 5,605 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988131.md
- Parcel 924832: 3,966 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924832.md
- Parcel 967380: 3,731 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967380.md
- Parcel 905897: 3,082 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905897.md
- Parcel 994715: 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/994715.md
- Parcel 882247: 2,917 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882247.md
- Parcel 925610: 2,896 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/925610.md
- Parcel 953879: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953879.md
- Parcel 4922090: 2,518 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4922090.md
- Parcel 971261: 2,425 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971261.md
- Parcel 952858: 2,373 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/952858.md
- Parcel 924269: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924269.md
- Parcel 971060: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971060.md
- Parcel 2696134: 1,754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696134.md
- Parcel 5163968: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163968.md
- Parcel 973322: 1,590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/973322.md
- Parcel 1006062: 1,544 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006062.md
- Parcel 946057: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/946057.md
- Parcel 882571: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/882571.md
- Parcel 1007234: 1,218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1007234.md
- Parcel 930684: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/930684.md
- Parcel 5163965: 1,085 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163965.md
- Parcel 5163717: 1,045 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163717.md
- Parcel 947509: 999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/947509.md
- Parcel 969655: 992 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/969655.md
- Parcel 971292: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/971292.md
- Parcel 989374: 902 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/989374.md
- Parcel 973388: 834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/973388.md
- Parcel 5806971: 806 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5806971.md
- Parcel 973300: 755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/973300.md
- Parcel 996040: 734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/996040.md
- Parcel 5163736: 703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163736.md
- Parcel 947510: 678 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/947510.md
- Parcel 5163507: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163507.md
- Parcel 5163716: 390 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163716.md
- Parcel 5163737: 294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163737.md
- Parcel 5163718: 221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163718.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 3 Nov 2023, Mayo County Council 23599: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house with new treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23599/0
- 28 Oct 2022, Mayo County Council 22942: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RENOVATE AND EXTEND THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING UPGRADE TO SEPTIC TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22942/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Corraun Plateau SAC, site code 000485, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000485
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau, site code 000485

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA065-004: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA065-004----. 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

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)

- Belfarsad Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 31306501, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31306501. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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 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, 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/belfarsad.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/belfarsad.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/belfarsad.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Belfarsad 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)

- Bolinglanna: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bolinglanna.md
- Mweewillin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mweewillin.md
- Pollranny (Sweeny): https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollranny-sweeny.md
- Srahmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/srahmore-152963.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.

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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.

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