Bellamont Forest

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellamont Forest, from 1,036 m² to 72,053 m² (7.21 ha, 17.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  to 1. Alter and restore the gated entrance and walls and construction of an outbuilding to provide storage in the vicinity of the Town Gate Lodge at Bellamont using appropriate materials and techniques. The works will include soft and hard landscaping, raising the height of the existing stone wall which abuts the public footpath, forming new cut stone piers, restoring and replacing existing ironwork and installing new gates. 2. RETENTION to retain and complete existing low level retaining walls and paving. Bellamont House is a protected structure Ref No CN17036 as is the Gate Lodge Ref No CV17030

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20408

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  to retain and complete alterations and extension to existing gate lodge. The works include restoration of original gate lodge using appropriate materials and techniques and retention of the removal of previous extensions and completion of a new extension to the side and rear of the host building. The gate lodge is a protected structure Ref. No. CV17030

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18297

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Lakes 000001
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cootehill Church 000003

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellamont Forest.

Architectural heritage

• All Saint's Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1818, with four-stage tower flanked by vestries, three-bay nave, short chancel, transept built 1861, addition c.1960 to side of chancel and transept. Pitched slate roof to nave, chancel, and transept, lean-to roof to vestries. Vestry roof hidden behind sloping crennelated barges and parapet, crennelated gables to nave and chancel gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters to nave resting on moulded corbel course and to transept resting on stone corbels. Random-coursed dark-shale limestone walls, dark coloured cut stone to string courses weatherings and crennelations. Raised quoins to vestries. Ashlar octagonal-profile spire to tower with crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles with weathered offsets above diagonal buttresses. Decorative timber louvers to pointed openings in belfry stage, clock face in third stage set in square stone-dressed recess, rectangular tripartite window with foil-headed lights in splayed surround with lattice glazing to second stage. Pointed arch to door opening with plain chamfered cut-stone surround with timber sheeted door leaf and panel over. Cut-stone surround to lancet windows with hood mouldings to vestries, chancel, and nave. Glazed timber windows of late Gothic forms, two and three lights with cusped heads and supermullions, chancel window having five lights. Transept having diagonal placed ashlar-dressed buttresses and plinth course. Pointed arch and square-headed side window openings to transept having cut-stone tracery in Decorated Style. Pointed arch to door opening below chancel with timber sheeted door. Plain hall-like interior with transept closed off as Sunday School. Flat plaster ceiling with cornice, painted glass to windows, timber doors. Timber gallery to west resting on cast-iron columns. Raised altar area in chancel with stone steps. Timber bench seats, some with doors, elaborate stone font, timber pulpit and altar. Rubble stone boundary walls having octagonal-profile ashlar piers with projecting ogee cappings, and decorative cast-iron double gates, all with flanking railings on plinth of rubble stone with cut-stone capping and square chamfered end piers with pyramidal cappings.

• Bellamont Forest, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, with single-storey return to the rear and single-storey addition to south-east gable. Oversailing hipped slate roof on paired brackets, tall central brick chimneystack, pitched slate roof to return oversailing gable with decorative timber bargeboards, brick chimneystack to gable on east rear wall. Single pitched roof to addition. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth plinth. Window openings with patent reveals, stone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows. Panelled timber door with overlight. Gate sweep with cast-iron gates on rubble stone plinth with saddle copings, double-leaf cast-iron gates with decorative octagonal-profile cast-iron piers and flanking pedestrian gates with same piers.

• Bellamont Forest, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan single-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, with canted end bays and lower single-storey return to rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves on brackets and replacement rainwater goods. Brick walls with low plinth. Round-headed window openings to canted ends in recess arches with stone sills, now bricked up. Central round-headed door in arched recess having spoked fanlight over replacement door, leading to two-room interior. Replacement door to return. Located to east of entrance gates, comprising square-profile ashlar capped outer piers, having railings on plinths forming quadrant sweep, with pairs of octagonal-profile cast-iron gate piers to double leaf vehicular gates and flanking single leaf pedestrian gates.

• Bellamont Forest, country house, 1725–1735 · National interest
  Description

  Detached Palladian-style square-plan four-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1730, with central Doric entrance portico raised above flight of steps, three-storey over basement side elevations, three recessed central bays to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof behind parapet wall with central valley, and cast-iron rainwater goods, some with decorative detailing. Two pairs of symmetrically arranged red brick chimneystacks with connecting arches. Profiled carved stone cornice to parapet coping. Red brick Flemish bond walls with moulded limestone stringcourse below upper floor continuing around sides of the building treating upper level as attic storey, stone quoins to ground floor only. Carved limestone plinth with torus moulding above finely-cut V-jointed rustication to top half of basement having random coursed stone finish below ground level. Prostylar tetrasytle pedimented Roman Doric portico to centre entrance level with enriched entablature having metopes with musical instruments, standing on ashlar stone plinth approached by steps with ashlar side walls having cornice and plinth. Door opening within portico in carved sandstone lugged architrave surround with carved swag to door head, projecting cornice, and carved stone round-headed arched detail above. Panelled timber double-leaf door with fixed overpanel. Three-over-three timber sash windows in architrave surrounds to first floor. Six-over-six sash windows to ground floor having pedimented surrounds in outer bays with carved stone architrave surrounds and decorative floral motifs to upper angles, ashlar stone apron and carved brackets supporting moulded sills. Windows to inner bays within portico having lugged architraves and moulded sills on carved brackets without pediment or apron. Segmental-headed windows to basement level having two-over-two timber sash windows. Windows having stone cills without architraves to upper floor, side elevations. Three-over-three mezzanine windows to side elevations, to north side all as functioning openings, to south only west bays functional. Central windows at ground floor to south side paired as Venetian window with central blind arch having entablature and central arch on Doric columns, simpler version to north side with plain stone surrounds. Central ground floor window to rear elevation having lugged and kneed architrave with hood on scrolled console brackets and ashlar apron, advanced outer bays having ground floor Venetian windows with blind side lights and ashlar entablature and archivolt . Small side lights to corresponding basement windows below. Tunnel connecting to outbuildings to north-east.

• Bellamont House, outbuilding, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two adjoining complexes of substantial outbuildings, built c.1730. Main yard to south-east with L-plan two-storey block around north-east and north-west sides, south-west side open to U-plan single-storey arrangement set back-to-back with smaller U-plan court open to north-east, both ranged behind eleven-bay single-storey frontage to facing walled garden and house to south-west, having gabled two-storey section in seventh and eighth bays. Pitched slate roofs to lower sections half-hipped to ends, gabled slate roof to raised section. Roughly coursed stone walls with brick surrounds to openings and brick gable to two-storey bays. Plain brick kneelers to gable with Bellamont arms in plaque to centre. Early-Georgian style multiple-pane replacement timber windows and doors. U-plan single-storey arrangement to rear centred on two-storey gabled bays. Dormers on the south-east external elevation with tall brick chimneystacks having clay pots, walls of roughly-coursed stone walling with brick trim. L-plan two-storey multiple-bay block to the north-east having half-hipped slate roof with dormers, currently under restoration. Roughly coursed stone walls with brick trim to openings, arch framed recesses to ground floor on north-west. Entrance gates to north-west between buildings. Walled garden to south-west end of complex with connecting tunnel to house basement. Entire complex lying at lower level to house and visible from it. Narrow avenue connection to house from north-west side of outbuildings.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellamont Forest.

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 Bellamont Forest with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Bellamont Forest · Bellamont

Area

3,516,489 m² (351.65 ha, 868.94 acres)

Civil parish

Drumgoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Cootehill Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cootehill Rural electoral division: 1,138 people in 412 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Benwilt, Black Island (Co. Monaghan), Carolina, Coragh, Dawson Grove Demesne (Co. Monaghan), Dromore West (Co. Monaghan), Killycramph, Killyvaghan, Lisawaum, Magheranure, Munnilly

Placenames

Bellamont Forest 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.