Belview
Townland in the civil parish of Diamor, barony of Fore, Co. Meath
- Area
- 113.7 ha
- 281 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 62,741 m² (6.27 ha, 15.5 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belview, from 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 518,343 m² (51.83 ha, 128.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 May 2026N/a
The development will consist of the following: 1) to construct a single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling to include full renovation of existing dwelling. 2. Construct apex porch roof to existing flat roofed porch. 2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 3) to close existing entrance and make a new entrance onto the road along with entrance gates, walls and piers, 4) all ancillary site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660586
25 Aug 2023Conditional
to construct an all weather synthetic grass pitch together with perimeter fencing, 6no 12m high light columns and all associated site development works on site.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360240
21 Apr 2023Conditional
the development consists of the following retention of: (1) Single storied extension to the rear of existing single storied dwelling (2) Domestic store and pump house at rear of dwelling (3) and all ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, 23433
8 Sept 2020Conditional
the development will consist of 1) demolition of an existing lean to toilet block, 2) construction of a two storied extension to existing club house to include new community meeting rooms, welfare facilities and storage rooms, 3) the provision of a new waste water treatment unit, 4) polishing filter area 5) all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA201236
25 Jan 2019Conditional
to construct a storey and a half extension to side of existing dressing rooms to include a community meeting room with toilets & kitchen area and first floor storage space. Permission is also sought to de-commission existing septic tank & install new precast concrete balancing tank followed by conventional septic tank and percolation areas on site (These are revised plans from those granted under planning permission ref KA/160539)
Permission · Meath County Council, KA190069
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 Belview.
Recorded monuments
- ME015-107 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
Situated on a slight SE-facing slope in the S foothills at the E end of the Slieve na Calliagh ridge and in full view of Belview House c. 160m to the SE. It is not depicted on any OS map but it is visible on vertical aerial images (GSIAP: N 155). This is a subrectangular mound (dims of base 12.9m N-S; 12.2m E-W; H 0.6m) defined by a ditch or fosse (Wth of base 2-2.8m; ext. D 0.2-0.3m). Although there are decorative trees in this field there is none at this location and none of the trees have a mound at their base. The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 10 January 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belview.
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 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 Belview.
- 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 Belview with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Belview
- Area
- 1,137,308 m² (113.73 ha, 281.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Diamor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Crossakeel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossakeel electoral division: 590 people in 198 households; 80% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough Big, Dogstown, Dogstown, Patrickstown, Philipstown, Smithstown, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Belview 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.