Belan

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belan, from 126 m² to 758,414 m² (75.84 ha, 187.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Belan 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.

• 30 Sept 2026N/a

  construct Sheep shed with effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660697

• 28 May 2021N/a

  a new tennis court within the curtilage of the house, enclosed by a 2.4m high fence on two sides and a 3.6m high fence to south boundary

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21747

• 2 Jun 2020Conditional

  amendments and additions to previous planning permission application ref:18/1456 including demolition of existing non-historic two-storey extension and replacement with new single-storey extension; three new windows to historic detail, two in historic openings and one new opening; alterations to historic internal layout and fabric including new lowered first floor in north of east wing pavilion and two new en-suite bathrooms (a Protected Structure)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20553

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  New single storey extension to rear, landscaping works, refurbishment works to existing house consisting of reinstatement of windows to historic detail, three new window openings, three new roof lights to rear, reinstatement of former arched opening to rear, renewal of external lime render, alterations to historic internal layout and fabric, new staircase, secondary glazing, internal breathable insulation, limecrete ground floor, renewal of mechanical and electrical services. Revised by significant further information consisting of; provision of a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181456

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Belan.

Architectural heritage

• Belan House, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c. 1750, with pedimented central breakfront. Three-bay two-storey Georgian house, c. 1790, attached to rear. Now derelict.

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

At the centre of the townland of Belan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Belan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Belan · Béilinn

Area

1,048,002 m² (104.8 ha, 258.97 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Sallyford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

604 people lived in 199 households in the Sallyford electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fisherstown, Grangecoor (Co. Kildare), Riverstown (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Belan 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.