Bellacorick

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellacorick, from 130 m² to 831,408 m² (83.14 ha, 205.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Bellacorick 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.

• 21 May 2026Conditional

  change of sue of former residential garda station to community center/tourist hostel. Construction of single storey extension to the side and rear and associated site development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26112

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  Synchronous condenser/flywheel, located within a fenced compound of c.0.85 ha consisting of: machine building to house equipment including the synchronous condenser, flywheel, lube oil skid, air compressor and pumps. Supporting items of plant; cooling equipment, c.6m high modular containers to house electrical and control equipment, 2 auxilliary transformers and electrical plant including external circuit breaker, HV electrical compound with electrical switchgear and main step-up transformer and new c.200m underground cable grid connection to the Bellacorick 110kv substation; diesel generator, fire water tank, underground oil separator and collection pit, services connections including electrical, water and wastewater and constructed wetland connecting ot Owenmore River; 3 office/welfare buildings and 2 spare parts containers. External lighting poles c. 9m, lightning monopole and Scada communications mast,. 4 fire walls around main step up transformer c. 8m high, 2 fire walls either side of auxilliary transformers c. 5m high, 3 firewalls around cooler for main transformer, 8m high. Ancillary site clearance and developemt works including provision of areas of hardstanding, internal access roads, laydown area, car parking and connection to site services networks. The development will be bounded by one c. 3.6m high palisade fence on the east side and one 5m high palisade fence to the south side. Site access will be by means of a new c. 3.6m high palisade gate and a second 3.6m sliding gate accessed from the Shranakilla Road off the N59. Permission sought is for 10 years. NIS submitted with application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23162

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of a 114 Megawatt gas fired peaking power plant (which will be capable of running on a mix of natural gas and hydrogen) comprising the ’electricity generating station’. The electricity generating station will comprise of 2 no. open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) generators each consisting of an air intake filter system, exhaust stack (28 metres high), air vent stack, inter cooler system, turbine control room and transformers. In addition the development will include: • Above Ground Installation (AGI) to facilitate connection to the Gas Network, with compound area of 1,600 m²; • 3 no. Gas AGI buildings; • Admin & welfare block; • Electrical Substation with area of 3,800 m²; • 1 no. Substation building; • Electrical building; • 3 no. Secondary fuel storage tanks with volume of 3,600 m³; • Fire Water Storage Tank & Pumphouse; • Sludge Tank & Pump House; • Resurfacing, Repair and Improvement of Existing Site Entrance; • Replacement Bridge; • Gatehouse; • Internal Access Roads; and • Associated Grid Connection Works within the L52925 Public Roadway. The development will include the provision of 12 no. parking spaces, footpaths, landscaping, fencing and all other associated site development plant and equipment and other works including surface water and foul wastewater drainage infrastructure. The development includes for the demolition and removal of a dwelling (112 m²) and associated farmyard barn and outbuildings (94 m², 15 m², 17 m² and 45 m²), all within a total overall application boundary of 4.35 ha. It should be noted in respect of this planning application that permission is sought for a period of 25 years.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360028

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY PROCESS BUILDING OF 13.3M HEIGHT; 16 NO. FIN FAN COOLERS OF 6.9M HEIGHT; HYDROGEN STORAGE AREA WITH AREA OF 4650M2; GAS INJECTION COMPOUND WITH AREA OF 1000M2; 2 NO. GAS AGI BUILDINGS, EACH OF 3M HEIGHT; ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION WITH AREA OF 2407.6M2; 2 NO SUBSTATION BUILDINGS, EACH OF 4M HEIGHT; RAW WATER AND FIRE WATER STORAGE TANK WITH VOLUME OF 879.6M3; PUMP HOUSE OF 5M HEIGHT; WATER ABSTRACTION CHAMBER WITH VOLUME OF 2.9M3; RESURFACING, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE; REPLACEMENT BRIDGE; INTERNAL ACCESS ROADS AND ASSOCIATED GRID CONNECTION WORKS WITHIN THE L52925 PUBLIC ROADWAY. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF 12 NO. PARKING SPACES, FOOTPATHS, LANDSCAPING, FENCING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND OTHER WORKS INCLUDING SURFACE WATER AND FOUL WASTEWATER DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN A TOTAL OVERALL APPLICATION BOUNDARY OF 6.51HA

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22502

• 10 Nov 2020Refused

  10 YEAR PERMISSION TO DEVELOP AN ELECTRICITY SERVICE, ENTAILING THE LAYING OF APPROXIMATELY 10.4 KILOMETERES OF 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE FROM THE GRANTED SHESKIN WIND FARM TO CONNECT THE WIND FARM TO THE NATIONAL GRID AT THE EXISTING BELLACORICK 110KV ESB STATION. THE PROPOSED GRID CONNECTION WILL BE INSTALLED ALONG EXISTING PRIVATE TRACKS, THE PUBLIC ROADWAY AND A SHORT SECTION OF PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL LAND.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20834

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  Single wind turbine generator and 20kV grid connection to Bellacorick 110kV substation

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20467

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF ELECTRICAL PLANT AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES AND THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING FENCE ALONG A PORTION OF THE NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE EXISTING SUBSTATION, THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING SUBSTATION BY 3970sq m TO ACCOMMODATE c. 30m OF OVER HEAD 110kV CONDUCTOR CONNECTING TO AN EXISTING 110 kV BUSBAR AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES c. 16m HIGH, INCORPORATING LIGHTENING PROTECTION MEASURES, 1 NO. 38/110kV BUNDED TRANSFORMER, AND ADDITIONAL 38 kV ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT SUCH AS ARC SUPPRESSION COIL, CABLE CHAIRS/SEALING ENDS, ETC. ALL ANCILLARY WORKS WITHIN THE SITE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL AREAS OF HARD-STANDING, INTERNAL ACCESS-WAYS, ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE WORKS AND ALL WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH REMOVAL, RELOCATION, REPLACEMENT AND INSTALLATION OF UNDERGROUND CABLES, ELECTRICAL PLANT AND SWITCHGEAR ON THE SITE, AND A 2.6m HIGH PALISADE PERIMETER FENCE WITH A DEDICATED ACCESS GATE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18274

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  A c.3 MW CAPACITY BATTERY STORAGE FACILITY AND WILL - SUBJECT TO DETAILED DESIGN, COMMERICAL AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS INCLUDE: 2 NO. BATTERY STORAGE CONTAINERS (UP TO 16.6m X 2.9M X 3.7M HIGH) A SINGLE-STOREY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM (c.77sqm), ANCILLARY ELECTRICAL PLANT INCLUDING 5 NO. TRANSFORMERS, INVERTERS AND OTHER CONTAINERISED PLANT, A c.15.5M HIGH LIGHTNING MAST AND c.18m HIGH SCADA COMMUNICATIONS MAST, c.2.6m HIGH BOUNDARY FENCE AND ACCESS GATE, c.100m LONG ACCESS ROAD CONNECTING WITH THE EXISTING SUBSTATION ACCESS ROAD AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE INSTALLATON OF SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18190

• 31 May 2017Conditional

  CONTINUE THE USE OF THE EXISTING 36 METRE HIGH, FREE STANDING LATTICE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANTENNAE AND COMMUNICATION DISHES WITHIN AN EXISTING 2.4 METRE HIGH PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED TEMPORARY PERMISSION UNDER P11/645 AND PERMISSION TO ATTACH 3 X 2.6M PANEL ANTENNA FOR THIRD PARTY CO-LOCATION AT ESB TELECOMS LTD TELECOMMUNICATION COMPOUND AT BELLACORRICK, BALLINA

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17419

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: Bellacorick Bog Complex SAC 001922
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellacorick Bog Complex 001922

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellacorick.

Architectural heritage

• Bellacorick Bridge, bridge, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch bridge over river, built 1820-1; dated 1820. Part repointed coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters having domed pyramidal capping with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having tooled cut-limestone coping centred on rope twist-detailed cut-limestone date stone ("1820"). Series of four elliptical arches between cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Owenmore River with unkempt banks to river.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Bellacorick.

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

Name

Bellacorick · Béal Átha Chomhraic

Area

2,797,695 m² (279.77 ha, 691.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Glenco, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Kilsallagh, Moneynierin, Muingaghel, Srahnakilly

Placenames

Bellacorick 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.