Bellaheady or Rossbressal

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellaheady or Rossbressal, from 42 m² to 174,596 m² (17.46 ha, 43.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Bellaheady or Rossbressal 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.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing hay barn and lean to shed and to construct a Slatted shed with underground slurry storage tanks and a calf shed and all ancillary site works- SIGNFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560769

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey detached ESB substation building and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360201

• 19 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360190

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of: erection of 1 1/2 storey, detached outbuilding (comprising domestic garage on ground floor level & home office on first floor level) to side of existing dwelling & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20308

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced two storey administration office building within existing pig farm development, sewage treatment unit, percolation area, together with all associated works. This planning application relates to a development, which is for the purpose of an activity requiring a licence under part iv of the environmental protection agency (licensing) regulations 1994 to 2013

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20295

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  to install solar panels on the roof of 1 No. existing Pig House, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works, on the site of existing pig farm

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20185

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 Bellaheady or Rossbressal.

Recorded monuments

• CV013-003 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Not marked as an antiquity on any OS ed. but known locally as a 'fort'. Oval area (int. dims. c. 160m NE-SW; 100m NW-SE) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse, both of which have been modified and incorporated into the field boundary, the area NE of which has been levelled leaving nothing visible at ground level. The site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary running NW-SE. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV013-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated close to the summit of a drumlin hill. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellaheady or Rossbressal.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1841 (ZIP).

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 Bellaheady or Rossbressal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Bellaheady or Rossbressal

Area

898,508 m² (89.85 ha, 222.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kildallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Lissanover, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lissanover electoral division: 291 people in 105 households; 91% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corran, Crossmakelagher, Killarah, Killycluggin, Toberlyan Duffin, Tonyrevan

Placenames

Bellaheady or Rossbressal 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.