Bellhill

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellhill, from 916 m² to 433,109 m² (43.31 ha, 107.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Bellhill 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.

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19326

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 Bellhill.

Recorded monuments

• OF036-050 Mound
  Description

  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
  Description

  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)
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Breaghmore Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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 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 Bellhill.

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 Bellhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Bellhill · Cnoc an Chloig

Area

1,137,591 m² (113.76 ha, 281.1 acres)

Civil parish

Seirkieran, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Seirkieran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Breaghmore, Churchland, Courtland or Viewmount, Derrybeg, Glebe, Grange, Longford Big

Placenames

Bellhill 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.