Bellakip
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Béal Átha Chip
- Area
- 410.8 ha
- 1,015 acres
- Land parcels
- 130
- registered freehold, median 6,407 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellakip, from 36 m² to 263,002 m² (26.3 ha, 64.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bellakip 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
15 Sept 2025Conditional
Construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25398
29 May 2025Conditional
Permission for development at Derreen, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. The proposed development will consist of the construction of a dwelling and ancillary shed with proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560342
25 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for development at Derreen, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. The proposed development will consist of the construction of a dwelling and ancillary shed with proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460722
30 Jul 2024Conditional
The proposed development will consist of the demolition of an existing outbuilding and the construction of a dwelling with proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460474
21 Jul 2023Conditional
extension to an existing dwelling and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23418
11 Nov 2022Conditional
retain dwelling house, machinery shed and stables on revised site boundaries together with associated site services. Planning reference P98/2779 refers.
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221022
20 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211349
24 Nov 2021Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE ON THE FOOTPRINT OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE WITH CONNECTION TO A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211227
16 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18790
16 Jan 2018Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING HOUSE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES INCLUDING REVISED SITE LAYOUT WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, P05/1837 REFERS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 1819
26 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A MIXED USAGE AGRICULTURAL SHED TOGETHER WITH A SHEEP HANDLING UNIT
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17503
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellakip.
Recorded monuments
- MA096-006 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Bellakip Bridge, bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to pier having lichen-covered domed pyramidal capping with overgrown coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Bellakip 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_99 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bellakip with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellakip · Béal Átha Chip
- Area
- 4,108,312 m² (410.83 ha, 1,015.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Louisburgh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Louisburgh electoral division: 1,117 people in 446 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Callacoon, Cregganroe, Kilgeever, Kinknock, Mullagh, Srahnacloy, Srahnanagh, Srahnashasky, Srahrevagh
- Placenames
- Bellakip 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.