Belclare

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belclare, from 527 m² to 205,096 m² (20.51 ha, 50.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Belclare 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.

• 9 Apr 2025N/a

  The construction of a single-story, two-bedroom, self-contained apartment, along with all associated site works—including a driveway, footpath, drainage system, soakaway relocation, and landscaping—for use in conjunction with the existing residential dwelling on-site.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560132

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  to upgrade existing septic tank with proprietary effluent treatment unit and associated percolation area including all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460163

• 10 Apr 2024N/a

  development consisting of the following: to upgrade existing septic tank with proprietary effluent treatment unit and associated percolation area including all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460107

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  development will of consist of: planning permission for a single storey extension to the rear of existing bungalow with all associated internal and elevation changes, decommission existing septic tank and install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works. Retention permission is required for existing 81.60 sq.m. garage and storage structure to side of existing dwelling with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360150

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 Belclare.

Recorded monuments

• SL036-042 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pasture, on a terrace overlooking the Bellanamean River. Only the ivy-clad N corner now stands of a rectangular structure (int. c. 7m NW-SE; c. 5m NE-SW) otherwise reduced to sod-covered foundations. The corner stands to approximately third-floor level and incorporates the remains of a spiral stone stairs (diam. c. 0.9m). Two windows lighting the stairs survive, each with a flat rear arch and a broken light. In the 1940s the tower was described as 'square in shape ... and approximately 30 feet [9.14m] high ... with no architectural features' (ITA). There are no visible remains of the 'court yard, enclosed by a very thick strong wall' mentioned by Mason (1816, vol. 2, 358-9). A castle of the O'Hara's (Mason 1816, vol. 2, 358-9; O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 149). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-043 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on the steep N-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 40m) terraced into the ridge with the S arc c. 1.5m below, and the N arc 0.3-2m above, the external ground level. There are no visible surface remains of the SE arc. The interior is defined by a scarp topped by a drystone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m) in parts along the N arc. The interior slopes down to N and is bisected by an E-W field boundary. Other field boundaries extend S and N from the E-W field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture on a natural rise with a fall of ground to the stream at SE. This possible rath is indicated as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 40m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The rath is levelled but visible as a roughly circular area (c. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) defined W-NW by gentle undulation, NNW-NNE by the slope of a natural rise and NE-ESE by the remnants of a scarp (H 0.6m) cut into the natural slope. A band of brambles appears to mark the S limits and may be related to a linear cropmark (Wth c. 2m) of long grass, rushes and gorse which extends W from the SW edge of the possible rath. This cropmark is probably a levelled field fence that skirted the possible rath. The interior is fairly level but it has an uneven surface, broken by shallow hollows and low hummocks. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belclare.

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 Belclare, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belclare.

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 Belclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Belclare · Béal an Chláir

Area

2,740,357 m² (274.04 ha, 677.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Aclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

233 people lived in 105 households in the Aclare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron (Co. Mayo), Claddagh, Creggaun (Co. Mayo), Kilmacteige, Knockbrack, Letterbrone, Oughaval

Placenames

Belclare 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.