# Bellhill, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Seirkieran, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cnoc an Chloig. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,137,591 m² (113.76 ha, 281.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,789 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Seirkieran, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/seirkieran.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Seirkieran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Seirkieran electoral division: 497 people in 163 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41541 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180238 - Centre: latitude 53.076252, longitude -7.783883 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellhill, from 916 m² to 433,109 m² (43.31 ha, 107.02 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 278749: 433,109 m² (43.31 ha, 107.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278749.md - Parcel 280379: 212,065 m² (21.21 ha, 52.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280379.md - Parcel 280706: 87,441 m² (8.74 ha, 21.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280706.md - Parcel 292132: 52,456 m² (5.25 ha, 12.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292132.md - Parcel 280675: 47,247 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280675.md - Parcel 293186: 40,002 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293186.md - Parcel 292461: 39,407 m² (3.94 ha, 9.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292461.md - Parcel 292140: 35,539 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292140.md - Parcel 293860: 31,039 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293860.md - Parcel 6129174: 30,726 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6129174.md - Parcel 277734: 23,885 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277734.md - Parcel 303587: 22,935 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303587.md - Parcel 292130: 16,681 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292130.md - Parcel 295484: 14,279 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295484.md - Parcel 280370: 9,789 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280370.md - Parcel 279256: 7,308 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279256.md - Parcel 271582: 3,314 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271582.md - Parcel 5595002: 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5595002.md - Parcel 272713: 2,784 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272713.md - Parcel 360365: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360365.md - Parcel 304973: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304973.md - Parcel 278668: 2,598 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278668.md - Parcel 5439479: 2,033 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5439479.md - Parcel 5439503: 2,021 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5439503.md - Parcel 5439485: 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5439485.md - Parcel 313115: 1,889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313115.md - Parcel 287964: 1,709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287964.md - Parcel 299618: 976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299618.md - Parcel 306126: 916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306126.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bellhill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Jul 2019, Offaly County Council 19326: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19326/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellhill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF036-050: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-050----. Situated below the summit of Bell Hill on the N facing slope. Possible earthwork or mound depicted on 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map but not marked on any subsequent editions. A thorn bush rises from the top of this low mound. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011 - OF036-084: Ritual site - holy tree/bush, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-084----. Situated on top of high ground with good views in all directions. This appears to be a natural rock outcrop with bush known locally as the 'Bell Bush'. No archaeological features visible, of doubtful archaeological significance. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF039-064: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-064----. Early Christian cross-slab that has been incorporated into the wall of the Roman Catholic church located at the foot of Bell Hill which was constructed between 1899-1901. The slab consists of a slab with a triple line incised cross with D-shaped terminals and a pointed base to the cross. The central part of the cross contains a circle within which there is a geometric pattern. Originally this cross-slab came from the nearby monastery of Seir Kieran (OF039-003001-). Same cross-slab as OF039-003015. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Breaghmore Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14936007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14936007. Triple-arch masonry road bridge, c.1800, carrying the Clareen to Kinnitty road over a tributary of the River Camcor and extended c.1920. Random rubble construction. Arch to north-east no longer in use. Arch of semicircular profile. Voussoirs of dressed sandstone blocks. Soffit and voussoirs of middle arch are replaced with concrete blocks. Weir to north-west of bridge c.1900. V-cutwater upstream. - Saint Kieran's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1910, Regional interest, registry number 14939002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14939002. Detached gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built in 1901, with five-bay nave, chancel, sacristy. Pitched slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves course, limestone coping and carved saddle stones and skew-corbels. Limestone bellcote over entrance bay and moulded limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Squared coursed rock-faced limestone walls with battered plinth and lateral buttresses. Pointed trefoil arched window openings to nave with chamfered limestone surround, stained glass window and continuous hoodmoulding. Rose window to entrance bay. Pointed-arched window opening to chancel with carved stone tracery. Pointed-arched door opening with chamfered limestone surround, hoodmoulding and timber battened door. Door accessed up two steps. Date plaque to projecting bay to east-facing elevation. Site accessed through decorative wrought-iron double gates supported by rendered piers. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Bellhill. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bellhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Breaghmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/breaghmore.md - Churchland: https://everytownland.com/offaly/churchland.md - Courtland or Viewmount: https://everytownland.com/offaly/courtland-or-viewmount.md - Derrybeg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrybeg-180581.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glebe-180702.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/offaly/grange.md - Longford Big: https://everytownland.com/offaly/longford-big.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/bellhill