Bellaveeny
Bellaveeny is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Ó bhFiannaí.
- Area
- 1,473 ha
- 3,640 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 17,239 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellaveeny, from 561 m² to 10,230,733 m² (1,023.07 ha, 2,528.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Bellaveeny 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
7 Dec 2023N/a
Planning Permission to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360526
13 Apr 2023Conditional
Construction of a new 1.9km long raw water intake pipeline to extend from the existing Ballycroy GWS Water Treatment Plan to a new intake on the Bellagarvaun River, construction of a new intake on the Bellagarvaun River, connection to the existing inlet pipework to the Ballycroy GWS WTP, reinstatement of the existing forestry road betwen the existing WTP and Bellagarvaun River, all associated site development works above and below ground including installation of all necessary valves and chambers. A NIS is submitted with the application
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23207
29 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22644
1 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21700
23 Mar 2018Conditional
RECONSTRUCTION, EXTENSION AND ALTERATION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18192
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 Bellaveeny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellaveeny.
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 Bellaveeny, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Bellaveeny.
- 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 Bellaveeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellaveeny · Béal Átha Ó bhFiannaí
- Area
- 14,729,590 m² (1,472.96 ha, 3,639.76 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
- Bellagarvaun, Castlehill, Clagganmountain, Drumgollagh, Essaun, Glennamaddoo, Glenthomas, Greenaun, Srahduggaun
- Placenames
- Bellaveeny 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.