Belleville Demesne

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belleville Demesne, from 219 m² to 200,882 m² (20.09 ha, 49.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Belleville Demesne 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.

• 17 Jul 2026Refused

  for the construction of an agricultural shed, handling area with underground storage tank and permission for the widening of existing agriculture access onto existing road and all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661215

• 3 Jun 2024Conditional

  of dwelling house and proposed new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter upgrade on a revised site with revised boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460665

• 10 Aug 2023Refused

  to construct a four bay double slatted cattle shed with creep areas

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23319

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  for construction of new dwelling house, garage & wastewater system. Dwelling to be accessed off previously approved access road & vehicular entry point from R339 (Pl. Ref: 20/1185). Gross floor space of proposed works: 334 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2163

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  for the following works: a] Existing vehicular entrance onto the R339 plus existing internal tarmac roadway, both serving agricultural back lands b] Existing agricultural store Plus permission for additional works to include; 1] Closing up of 2no existing vehicular access points onto R339 from adjacent family dwelling 2] New connection from adjacent family dwelling to existing access road [to be retained in item a] above] for vehicular access to the R339 3] Removal of large gravel hardstand area to rear of site and reinstatement of grass area. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 60.61 msq.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201185

• 2 Jun 2020Refused

  Permission for construction of new dwelling house, garage & wastewater system to include revisions to existing vehicular access onto R 339 which will incorporate adjoining dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 341 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20673

• 9 May 2019Conditional

  of an existing dwelling, storage shed, septic tank and all associated works on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 238sqm, Shed 11sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19690

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 Belleville Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-005 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• GA071-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 37m, N-S 32m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap at E, though modern, may mark the original entrance. A ringfort (GA071-069----) lies c. 200m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA071-007 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA071-008 Designed landscape feature
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Belleville, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay three-storey square-plan tower, built c.1830, having corner pilasters. Surviving remains of country house of late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century date. Roof not visible, battlemented parapets to walls, and battlemented turrets to corners. Rendered rubble limestone walls. Square-headed windows to lower floors and round-headed to top floor, with brick jambs. Partial remains of house attached to side. Remains of two-storey outbuildings to rear, having pitched roofs, rendered rubble limestone walls, square-headed window openings to first floor and segmental arched vehicular openings to ground floor.

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 Belleville Demesne, about 1 in 5 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 Belleville Demesne.

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 Belleville Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Belleville Demesne · Diméin Belleville

Area

1,105,103 m² (110.51 ha, 273.08 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Belleville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

670 people lived in 223 households in the Belleville electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caraun, Cossaun, Farravaun, Mountbrowne

Placenames

Belleville Demesne 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.