Bellanaloob

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellanaloob, from 25 m² to 170,102 m² (17.01 ha, 42.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Bellanaloob 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.

• 1 Jun 2026Conditional

  Planning permission to construct an agricultural building for bovine livestock as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660431

• 16 Mar 2026Conditional

  construct dwelling with effluent treatment system and garage on site together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2654

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  construct a private dwellinghouse, proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25212

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 1 Nov 2021Conditional

  NEW DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING ALONG WITH A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, UTILIZING AN EXISTING ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD, INSTALLATION OF A TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211151

• 17 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR HOUSING BOVINE LIVESTOCK AND ALSO A MILKING PARLOUR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20381

• 4 Sept 2018Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P06/1589 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18679

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellanaloob.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-101 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Overlaid by now ruined Newbrook House. Traces of vaulting and two splayed windows can be seen on E wall. Build-up of rubble about the site. Castle of Thomas Keigh Burke in 1574 (Knox 1908, 350). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 685. Date of upload: 7 February 2013

• MA100-101001 Bawn
  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.

• MA100-122 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In rough pasture. Heavily overgrown area enclosed by low, D-shaped, stone wall (L 19.7m E-W, 27.3m N-S). Few gravestones visible due to vegetation. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 666. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-133 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (33m N-S; 33m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.4m) overlain by low cashel-like wall on N. Fosse largely overgrown and infilled. Outer bank (H 0.2m) levelled SE to N. Entrance with causeway on E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 109. Date of upload: 13 February 2013

• MA100-134 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSI). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 407. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-135 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, 350m E of ringfort (MA100-133----). Heavily overgrown circular area (diam. 44m N-S), defined by low earthen bank (H 0.8m), levelled on E. Bank, tree lined; modern shed built on N. Interior quarried in parts. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 110. Date of upload: 13 February 2013

• MA100-156 Windmill
  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

• Newbrook House, walled garden, 1760–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Newbrook House.

• Newbrook House, mill (wind), 1760–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay three-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1838, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1925. Roof now missing. Coursed rubble limestone walls retaining fragments of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish with Irish battlemented parapet. Square-headed opposing door openings with hammered limestone lintels supporting hammered or squared limestone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with hammered limestone lintels supporting hammered or squared limestone voussoirs. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Newbrook House.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bellanaloob · Béal Átha na Lúb

Area

1,961,731 m² (196.17 ha, 484.75 acres)

Civil parish

Robeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Newbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbrook electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacally, Cornalassan, Cornanagh, Creggarve, Kiltaugharaun, Knockalinsky, Lissaniska, Raheenabbeyland, Togher

Placenames

Bellanaloob 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.