Bellavary
Bellavary is a townland in the civil parish of Kildacommoge, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Bhearaigh.
Parcel 5364006
- Area
- 7,528 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Bellavary
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 253.9 ha
- 627 acres
- Land parcels
- 270
- registered freehold, median 1,853 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
270 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellavary, from 5 m² to 123,298 m² (12.33 ha, 30.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 99 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Conditional
Alterations and single storey extension to existing dwelling, along with all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660496
10 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to carry out partial demolition of an existing dwelling and to construct a new extension, along with a proprietary effluent treatment system, domestic garage, and all associated ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560909
17 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning permission for the clearance of the existing site including an old stone ruin and then the construction of two three-bedroom two-storey dwelling houses complete with garden sheds, access driveways, connection to public services and including all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 2560816
8 Nov 2025Conditional
Permission is sought to make the following changes to houses granted under previous grant of permission P24/60005 1. retain at present stage of construction and complete modifications to the design of houses previously granted permission on sites nos. 1,2.3.6 and 7 10,11,14,15,19,20.21,22,23 and 24 and, 2. Ancillary site works and services;
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560793
1 Oct 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration; to construct a private EV charging point on the street, outside residence at Ballyvary, Village, Castlebar, Co.Mayo.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25405
12 Aug 2025N/a
Permission is sought to make the following changes to houses granted under previous grant of permission P24/60005 1. retain at present stage of construction and complete modifications to the design of houses previously granted permission on sites nos. 1,2.3.6 and 7 ; 2. proposed modifications to the design of houses previously granted permission on sites 10,11,14,15,19,20.; and, 3. construction of a change to the type of house from that previously granted on sites nos. 21,22,23 and 24;
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560550
8 Apr 2025Conditional
alterations and additions to existing house and all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25134
9 Jan 2024Conditional
Appliocation for permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (Ref: P20/865), for a development of 26 houses comprising 8No. single storey two-bedroom semi-detached houses, 6No. Four-bedroom semi-detached houses, 8No. Three-bedroom semi-detached houses and 4No. four-bedroom detached houses, vehicular and pedestrian access, connections to public services and utilities together with associated siteworks and services on this site at6 Ballyvary, Castlebar, County Mayo.
Permission consequent, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460005
12 Dec 2023N/a
Appliocation for permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (Ref: P20/865), for a development of 26 houses comprising 8No. single storey two-bedroom semi-detached houses, 6No. Four-bedroom semi-detached houses, 8No. Three-bedroom semi-detached houses and 4No. four-bedroom detached houses, vehicular and pedestrian access, connections to public services and utilities together with associated siteworks and services on this site at6 Ballyvary, Castlebar, County Mayo.
Permission consequent · Mayo County Council, 2360533
3 Aug 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO A PRE-SCHOOL FACILITY AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22653
6 May 2022Conditional
The development will consist of the erection of ballstops, nets and all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22330
10 Nov 2020Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT OF 28 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS (12 NO. SINGLE AND 16 NO. TWO STOREY) VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN SITE ACCESS, CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS AND DEVELOPMENTS.
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 20865
27 Aug 2020Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL TO INCLUDE A RECREATION HALL, A NEW CLASSROOM, TOILETS, HALLWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES INCLUDING PARKING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, P12/259 REFERS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20604
21 Apr 2017Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17288
10 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT SLATTED SHED TO HOUSE CATTLE AND ANCILLARY WORKS (I.E CONCRETE YARDS, GATES AND RAILINGS ETC.) ALTERATION AND RE-ROOFING OF EXISTING CUBICLE SHED, ALL FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY IN EXISTING FARMYARD
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17258
24 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17111
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellavary.
Recorded monuments
- MA070-115 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In level improved pasture. Recorded as an enclosure – probably a ringfort – with a later field boundary running across the interior from ENE to SW on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) and shown on the slightly later OS 25-inch map (1893) defined by a scarp. A circular area (diam. 25m) is defined by an enclosing scarp (H 0.3m at E; H 0.8m at S; H 1.8m at SE) which is traceable from ENE-SE-S) and is faintly visible at N. A later field boundary overlies the perimeter at SW. The W-half of the interior is generally level while the E-half slopes slightly down towards the E. The field boundary recorded crossing the interior on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) had been removed. Date of visit: 28-7-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
- MA070-116 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area defined by an enclosing bank from NW-N-E-SE but with a farm lane (Wth c. 4m) running on the line of the enclosing bank from SE-W-NW. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 28m) is enclosed by an overgrown inner bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.1-0.5m; Wth 7-8m; ext. H 1.3-2.4m) which has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.3-2.6m) along the E and W, and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) which is only visible from S-WSW but whose line can be followed as a berm (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.3m) a short distance farther between WSW and WNW. The interior contains three large and almost contiguous subcircular hollows (max. diams. 7m; max D 1m) in the W sector, partially cutting into the line of the enclosing scarp, and there is a fourth, overgrown rectangular hollow (L 9m NE-SW; Wth 6m) in the N sector. A second rath (MA070-117----) lies c. 230m to the E and there is a third rath (MA070-118----) c. 350m to the SE. Date of visit: 9-5-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
- MA070-117 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on the upper E-facing slope of a broad ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 38m) is enclosed by an overgrown, broad, flat-topped stony bank (int. H 0.1m at E-0.9m at W; Wth 7m; ext. H 1.6m at S-3.2m at E). An overgrown gap (Wth 4m) at SSE may be an original entrance and there are later livestock gaps at N and WSW. A fosse (Wth at base 1.5–2.5m; D 0.3-0.8m) runs outside the bank. The interior is generally level and featureless with some briar and thorn growth in the S half. A second rath (MA070-116----) lies c. 230m to the W and there is a third rath (MA070-118----) c. 280m to the SSW. Date of visit: 17-4-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
- MA070-118 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture at the top of a moderately steep S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 31m) is defined by an inner and an outer bank with an intervening fosse. The inner bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.1m-0.7m; Wth 7-8m; ext. H 1.8–2.8m) has been reduce to a scarp (H 2m) along the E and has an overgrown gap (Wth 3m) at W, a narrower livestock gap at NNE, and its outer face is denuded along the NNW. The fosse is flat-bottomed (Wth 2m at WNW - 6m at N) but poorly preserved along the S. The second, outer bank of earth and stone is best preserved from WNW-N–E (int. H over base of fosse 0.5-1m; Wth 4–6.5m; ext. H 1m), contains a livestock gap at NNE and has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) along the SE and SW. The interior is heavily overgrown in the NE sector and contains a possible souterrain (MA070-118001-) in the NW sector where the ground is generally level. Elsewhere the internal ground slopes down slightly towards the SE. Date of visit: 09-05-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
- MA070-118001 Souterrain
Description
In the NW sector of a ringfort (MA070-118----), close to the edge of the inner enclosing bank. A long, nettle-filled rectangular hollow (L 11m NE–SW; Wth 4.5m; D 1-1.2m) may be the remains of a robbed-out souterrain. Date of visit: 9-5-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
- MA070-160 Enclosure
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.
- MA070-161 Enclosure
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.
- MA070-162001 Enclosure
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.
- MA070-162002 Souterrain
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
- Mill (water), 1840–1859 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey mill with half-attic, extant 1859. In use, 1945. For sale, 2008. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing. Ivy-covered walls. Square-headed window openings with red or yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing remains of timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Bellavary, 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 moderately high, 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 Bellavary.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bellavary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellavary · Béal Átha Bhearaigh
- Area
- 2,539,384 m² (253.94 ha, 627.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildacommoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gallen
- Electoral division
- Bellavary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,084 people lived in 399 households in the Bellavary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Atticahill, Breandrum, Corraun, Danganmore, Gurraunard, Killeen, Knockavrony, Laghtavarry, Redhill, Strade
- Placenames
- Bellavary 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.