Bellmount or Lisderg

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellmount or Lisderg, from 22 m² to 600,723 m² (60.07 ha, 148.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Sept 2024N/a

  Permission to construct (i) Two anaerobic digesters, feeder unit (ii) yard (iii) Access roadway (iv) Combined Heat and Power Building for onsite use of renewable electricity & Gas with associated and ancillary site development works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460339

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO EXISTING FARM BUILDING CONSISTING OF AREA FOR THE HOUSING OF LIVESTOCK ON SOLID CONCRETE FLOORING AND AREA FOR GENERAL STORAGE USE, COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, (2) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW FARMYARD MANURE PIT, COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, AND (3) PERMISSION TO EXTEND EXISTING UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK, COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23191

• 8 Nov 2022Refused

  A 1ST FLOOR LEVEL EXTENSION OVER A PRE-EXISTING GROUND FLOOR KITCHEN TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22575

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (I) STORAGE SHED (II) WALLED SILAGE PITS (III) MEAL STORAGE SHED (IV) CALF SHED (V) 4 ROOFED OVERGROUND STORAGE TOWER WITH HARDCORE AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22553

• 31 May 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED; CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE; DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WASTEWATER SECONDARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER; AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22273

• 29 Apr 2022Refused

  EXISTING 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22214

• 11 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1) CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANKS INCORPORATING MILKING AREA, DAIRY AREA, MEAL BIN, MILK SILO AND WATER TANKS 2) WALLED SILAGE PITS 3) ROOFED OVERGROUND STORAGE TOWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 222

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (I) CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANKS INCORPORATING MILKING AREA, DAIRY AREA, MEAL BIN, MILK SILO AND WATER TANKS (II) WALLED SILAGE PITS (III)ROOFED OVERGROUND STORAGE TOWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION TO CHANGE A STORAGE SHED TO MILKING SHED IS ALSO REQUIRED

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21762

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (I) CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANKS INCORPORATING MILKING AREA, DAIRY AREA, MEAL BIN, MILK SILO AND WATER TANKS (II) WALLED SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21399

• 26 Apr 2021Refused

  EXISTING 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21256

• 19 Jan 2021Conditional

  (1) A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE (II) THE REVISED HANDING FROM EAST TO WEST OF THE DWELLING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF PL2/84/11 AND CHANGES TO THE DWELLINGS ELEVATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2116

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SINGLE DWELLING TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19436

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY GLASS BAY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH WEST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS. BELMONT COTTAGE IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED UNDER THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES IN THE OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN (RPS REF. 30-11)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18518

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17291

• 10 May 2017N/a

  A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17164

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  TURF SHED AND A MULTIPURPOSE DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1735

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 Bellmount or Lisderg.

Recorded monuments

• OF014-038 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) maps. 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: 23 May 2011

• OF014-052 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  Early Christian monastery known as Teach Sáráin [Tisaran/House of Saran] founded by Sárán, son of Brógán of the Dál gCais of Thomond in the seventh century (Ó Riain 2011, 547-8; ITA Survey 1942). Early Christian cross-slab (OF022-004003-) originally located inside Tisaran graveyard (OF022-004001-) that has been removed and is now kept inside High St. R.C. church near Belmont village. The cross-slab was first drawn by Margaret Stokes based on a rubbing of the slab taken by Rev. James Graves in 1873 (Petrie 1878, 50). Described in 1913 as, 'A small slab incised with a double-line ringed cross. Immediately below the shaft is a small circle. The inscription 'or [oroit] do bran' [Pray for Bran] runs across the top and down the sinister side' (Crawford 1913, 265). Cross-slab recorded in 1949 as following; 'Slab, 2 feet 4 inches x 1 foot 1 inch x 0' 7", bearing a wheel-cross with a circle added to the lower terminal. Inscription on top and sinister side 'or do bran'. In the oval sinkings in the contours of the cross there appears to have been originally extremely fine patterns of interlacement, in minuteness recalling manuscript work. They are, however, too much weathered to be restored with any approach to certainty. The stone, which was lying in the old cemetery in this parish, has now been transferred safely to the modern church' (Macalister 1949, vol. 2, 78). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 01 March 2019

Architectural heritage

• Belmont House, country house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan seven-bay two-storey castellated country house, built c.1810, with entrance porch. Hipped slate roof, hidden behind parapet with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with castellated parapet, limestone saddleback coping to crenellations. Label moulding to parapet over recessed entrance bay. Square-headed window openings with punch-dressed limestone sills and uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to entrance porch with uPVC door, flanked by lancet sidelights. Door accessed by two concrete steps. Castellated pebbledashed wall to south-west side of rear yard. Rear stable yard to the north-west of rear yard comprising ranges of two-storey stables with random coursed stone and rendered walls with half-hipped slate roofs. Stable yard is accessed through integral carriage arches and cast-iron gate. Walled garden to north of main house with three-bay two-storey cottage abutting the north-west wall.

• Belmont House, gate lodge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former gate lodge to Belmont House, built c.1840, with single-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with punch-dressed limestone sills and timber casement windows. Windows to upper-floor set in gabled dormers that rise from the naked of the wall. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door. Front site accessed through wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Gate lodge adjacent to main entrance accesses the current Belmont House.

• Belmont Cottage, miller's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1860, with two-storey extension to rear. Formerly associated with Belmont Mills. Set within its own grounds. Hipped and pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, open eaves, timber bargeboards, rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone walls with quoins. Yellow brick surrounds to timber sash windows to front, paired sash windows to side elevation, all with tooled stone sills. Segmental-arched door opening to façade with yellow brick surround, sidelights, overlight and flat panelled door. Tooled stone steps to entrance. Renovated outbuilding to south-west with half-hipped slate roof and random coursed stone walls.

• Belmont Mills, office, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey with attic former mill office at Belmont Mills, built c.1840, with projecting porch entrance to east side. Occupied as a house until 1996. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Square-headed door openings to porch and rear with timber battened door. Timber fascia to side elevation wall reads, ‘RBT Perry & Co (1927) Ltd, Belmont Mills’. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate accesses site of Belmont Mills.

• Belmont Mills, mill (water), 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay five-storey former corn and oat mill, built in 1769, with corn store and screen house to rear, altered and refurbished in 1867-68. Set within the complex of Belmont Mills. Hipped slate roof which is M-profile to rear with terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with yellow brick eaves and tie-bars plates. Timber sash window and louvred openings. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Projecting timber hoist bay to front elevation. Blocked tooled limestone aedicule to rear elevation with inscription to tympanum and entablature reading: 'Erected by John Clifford, Mill Wright, 1769, Gilbert Holmes and Thomas L'Estrange Esquires May Ye 21'.

• Belmont Mills, mill manager's house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former miller's house, built c.1840, with gable-ended return to rear. Occupied until 1996. Half-hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Yellow brick outbuilding to rear with replacement corrugated-iron barrel roof. Set within mill complex.

• Belmont Mills, store/warehouse, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay five-storey former flour mill granary, built c.1850, with mass concrete elevator shaft to façade and scar of demolished block to south. Refurbished c.1920. Set within complex at Belmont Mills. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls. Top-hung cast-iron casement windows with limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors.

• Belmont Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch masonry road bridge, built c.1750, carrying a minor road to Belmont over the River Brosna. Thick piers and dressed rubble voussoirs to arches, random coursed walls with roughly cut stone parapet. V-shaped cutwaters to upstream elevation. Square-shaped pedestrian refuges at road level to north-east wall. Semicircular profile arches. Upstream diagonally set weir which diverts water to Belmont Mill. Headrace flow through two smaller segmental arches at north end of the bridge. Located near the 33rd lock on the Grand Canal.

• Weir, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cut stone elongated weir with on the River Brosna, erected c.1840, at the Belmont Bridge, diverting water to Belmont Mill.

• Belmont House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Inner and outer octagonal castellated ashlar limestone piers, c.1850, with sweeps of cast-iron railings on limestone plinth.

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 Bellmount or Lisderg, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellmount or Lisderg.

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

Name

Bellmount or Lisderg · An Lios Dearg

Area

1,714,321 m² (171.43 ha, 423.62 acres)

Civil parish

Tisaran, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lumcloon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

353 people lived in 143 households in the Lumcloon electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingowan Glebe, Ballinloman, Ballyloughan, Ballysheil, Camus, Faddan More, Farranmacshane, Kilcummin, Killagally Glebe, Moneenagunnell

Placenames

Bellmount or Lisderg 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.