Bellagarvaun
Bellagarvaun is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Garbháin.
- Area
- 623 ha
- 1,540 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 128,619 m² (12.86 ha, 31.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellagarvaun, from 355 m² to 3,283,885 m² (328.39 ha, 811.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bellagarvaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Mar 2025Conditional
Construction of a Dwelling House and Demolition of existing Dwelling House at Bellagarvaun, Ballycroy, Westport, Co Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560139
23 Aug 2024Conditional
Construction of a Dwelling House and waste water treatment System at Bellagarvaun, Ballycroy, Westport, Co Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460528
30 Jan 2023N/a
Section 5 declaration: Erect a permanent sheep fence on designated land beside already fenced neighbouring plots
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2325
31 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20608
16 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17912
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SAC 000534
- Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellagarvaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellagarvaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Bellagarvaun, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellagarvaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bellagarvaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellagarvaun · Béal Átha Garbháin
- Area
- 6,230,483 m² (623.05 ha, 1,539.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Ballycroy South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 332 people lived in 125 households in the Ballycroy South electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellaveeny, Castlehill, Lettera, Srahduggaun
- Placenames
- Bellagarvaun 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.