Beltra

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beltra, from 239 m² to 165,991 m² (16.6 ha, 41.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Beltra 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.

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, (3) Demolish existing agricultural shed, (4) Construct replacement agricultural shed (to include garage, workshop & storage areas), together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360060

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19338

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: Lackan Saltmarsh and Kilcummin Head SAC 000516
• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lackan Saltmarsh And Kilcummin Head 000516

Recorded monuments

• MA007-016001 Field system
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA007-016005 Megalithic structure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA007-016014 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA007-016015 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA007-016016 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA008-002001 Burial mound
  Description

  At the N end of a pasture field, bordering the shoreline on the W side of Lackan Strand, overlooking Lackan Bay. This burial mound, known locally as ‘Greenhill’, is not indicated on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a grass-covered, flat-topped D-shaped mound (70m N-S; c. 40m E-W; H 1.6m at N, 2m at S), most likely a modified natural sand dune. It is defined on the curving W half by an irregular, broadly-sloping scarp; the straight side at E, facing Lacken Strand, has been eroded by wave action to a relatively vertical section face (H c. 3.5m). The flat top (c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) of the mound has an uneven surface with several pronounced hollows (diam. 5-10m; D 0.4m) suggesting disturbance in the past. At S–NW the mound has a pronounced steep slope; at NW-N there is long, shallow slope with evidence of past disturbance or quarrying. Remnants of stone facing is exposed mid-way down the slope at the SW. Grass-covered sandy undulations, uneven in width (Wth 5-15m) and height (H 0.4-1m) curve around the base of the mound on the W half; they may incorporate remnants of an outer enclosing element or relict field boundary. The sea-ward E side of the mound is subject to on-going erosion, and at various times over the years archaeological features have been exposed in the section face in a stratigraphy composed of accumulated layers of sand. Concentration of large and medium-sized stones have been noted at both the S and N ends of the section face, probably representing the remnants of a retaining wall or stone facing. Several inhumation burials in E-W oriented, stone-lined lintelled graves have been exposed in section, mainly concentrated in the upper levels of the mound, at a depth of a least 0.6m below the top. Some graves appear to be close-set in N-S rows. In one burial, the skull was clearly at the E end of the grave. Human bones have also been noted protruding from lower levels of the mound, and apparently not enclosed within stone graves; some may have eroded out of graves. Settlement evidence, such as a hearth (MAA008-002002-) and midden material (MA008-002003-), has been noted at several levels within the section face. In 1998 a bronze zoomorphic penannular brooch, dating to the 6th –7th century, was found lying on the beach close to the mound. This is now in the National Museum. Vegetation cover, slumping and erosion of layers, and burrowing by rabbits makes it difficult to decipher and record the stratigraphy of the section face, but the mound clearly has had a long and complex history, apparently involving use for both domestic and burial purposes. The combined evidence of the E-W orientation of the graves and the penannular brooch suggests that the burials may date to the Early Medieval period. There is a midden (MA008-016----) c. 4m to N. Attached images: MA008-002001-_01.JPG Burial mound viewed from SW MA008-002001-_01.JPG Burial mound viewed from SE MA008-002001-_01.JPG Stone-lined grave Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2019

• MA008-002002 Hearth
  Description

  In a burial mound (MA008-002001-). A hearth, consisting of charcoal in a burnt layer, was noted in the eroding section face on the E-facing, seaward side of the burial mound. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2019

• MA008-002003 Midden
  Description

  In a burial mound (MA008-002001-) on the W side of Lacken Strand. Midden material, in the form of concentrations of shells (limpets), animal bones (cattle, sheep, pig), charcoal fragments and burnt material, has been noted at several different levels within the eroding section face on the seaward side of the mound. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2019

• MA008-016 Midden
  Description

  Located 4m N of a burial mound (MA008-002001-) exposed beneath a field fence in the E-facing land-edge section bordering the W side of Lackan Strand. A concentration (D 0.2m; L c.4m) of limpet shells, intermixed with occasional charcoal fragments and small-medium sized, stones, some of which appear heat shattered, is visible in section within a layer (D 0.5m) of grey-dark brown sand. It occurs at a depth of c. 1m below the field surface level, and is c. 0.6m above the current level of the cobbles and boulders that cover the beach. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beltra.

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 Beltra, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Beltra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Beltra · Béal Trá

Area

1,004,328 m² (100.43 ha, 248.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Lackan North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

306 people lived in 139 households in the Lackan North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Knockboha, Rathlackan

Placenames

Beltra 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.