Betal
Betal is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 691855
- Area
- 21,902 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 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
- Betal
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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 63.9 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 17,850 m² (1.78 ha, 4.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Betal, from 186 m² to 43,723 m² (4.37 ha, 10.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Betal 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2025Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, private well and foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660002
19 May 2023Conditional
1. Retention Permission to retain an existing agricultural shed and concrete yard and 2. Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed, all as per drawing documents submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23203
20 Apr 2023N/a
1.) Retention Permission for the retention of an existing agricultural shed and concrete yard and 2.) Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23145
6 Apr 2023N/a
Retention Permission to: 1.) retain existing agricultural shed, 2.) retain concrete yard and 3.) Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23122
28 Sept 2022N/a
Permission to construct a farm machinery shed incorporating a farm office, all as per drawing documents submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22527
5 Sept 2022N/a
Permission to construct a farm machinery shed incorporating a farm office at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22474
17 Jun 2020N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20213
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 Betal.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Betal.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Betal.
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 Betal, 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 Betal.
- 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 Betal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Betal
- Area
- 638,925 m² (63.89 ha, 157.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Kiltullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,185 people lived in 460 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altore, Clogher Lower, Lowberry, Rathlena, Spring Gardens
- Placenames
- Betal 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.