Bellataleen
Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Béal an tSáilín
- Area
- 177 ha
- 437 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 2,614 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellataleen, from 140 m² to 1,394,838 m² (139.48 ha, 344.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Bellataleen 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
9 Apr 2026Conditional
construct a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and ancillary siteworks
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2681
22 Aug 2025Conditional
Demolition and removal of existing dwelling house and construction of replacement family dwelling house with associated and ancillary landscaping and site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560578
7 Apr 2025Conditional
Planning application for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560204
22 Apr 2024Conditional
Extensions and alterations to existing House, together with all ancillary siteworks and services at Bellataleen, Murrisk, Westport, Co. Mayo (Height of Extensions: 5.3 metres and 5.5 metres)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460231
4 Mar 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to (1) retain alterations & extension to existing dwelling house (2) retain domestic shed (3) retain upgrade to septic tank and percolation bed and (4) to construct a garden room which will include a gym and home office together with all ancillary site works at Roseville, Murrisk, Westport, Co. Mayo
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460095
15 Dec 2023Conditional
modification and renovation of the house, together with ancillary development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23667
23 Jan 2023Conditional
The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016
3 Mar 2022Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22157
7 May 2019Conditional
Construction of attic extension and alterations to existing bungalow, new wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19320
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: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Croagh Patrick 000483
Recorded monuments
- MA087-058 Enclosure
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.
- MA087-058001 Hut site
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.
- MA087-063001 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.
- MA087-063002 Hut site
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.
- MA087-063003 Field boundary
Description
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- MA087-063004 Hut site
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.
- MA087-063005 Building
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
- Campbell's, hotel, 1902–1911 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey hotel, extant 1911, originally three-bay two-storey[?] with five-bay two-storey recessed lower wing (west) originally thatched[?]. Disused, 2009. "Restored", 2010. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows (west) having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with tarmacadam verge to front.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Bellataleen.
- 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 Bellataleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellataleen · Béal an tSáilín
- Area
- 1,769,947 m² (176.99 ha, 437.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Croaghpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croaghpatrick electoral division: 699 people in 259 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkeel, Carrowkeeran, Crott Mountain, Deerpark West, Lenacraigaboy, Meermihil, Murrisk Demesne, Teevenacroaghy
- Placenames
- Bellataleen 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.