Belville
Belville is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacshalgan, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha an Mhíl.
Parcel 747899
- Area
- 33,563 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 245 m².
- 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
- Belville
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- SL018-055 Enclosure
Description
In rough pasture, situated at the edge of a high bluff at the S side of an E-facing slope overlooking a bend in the River Dunneill. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Substantially raised, subcircular platform (14.7m N-S; 12m E-W, at top) with steeply sloping, almost vertical, sides (H 1.3m at W, 3m at E). At S the platform merges with the cliff face of the bluff. The flat top of the platform is defined on its perimeter at W by remnants of a bank (Wth c. 0.8m). On the S edge of the platform are the remnants of modern stone wall, on a roughly E–W axis, which forms a barrier along the cliff edge. A farm track skirts the enclosure at N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 177.7 ha
- 439 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 4,812 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belville, from 266 m² to 174,659 m² (17.47 ha, 43.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Belville 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
12 Oct 2020Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a dormer style extension (total floor area 79.4m2) and 2 No. dormer windows to the existing front elevation at our existing dwelling house
Permission · Sligo County Council, 20351
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 Belville.
Recorded monuments
- SL012-039 Earthwork
Description
Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated close to the NW edge of a NW-SE ridge which has been extensively quarried for sand. The site has been levelled. Only its outline (diam. c. 24m) is now identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL018-010 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.
- SL018-054 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012
- SL018-055 Enclosure
Description
In rough pasture, situated at the edge of a high bluff at the S side of an E-facing slope overlooking a bend in the River Dunneill. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Substantially raised, subcircular platform (14.7m N-S; 12m E-W, at top) with steeply sloping, almost vertical, sides (H 1.3m at W, 3m at E). At S the platform merges with the cliff face of the bluff. The flat top of the platform is defined on its perimeter at W by remnants of a bank (Wth c. 0.8m). On the S edge of the platform are the remnants of modern stone wall, on a roughly E–W axis, which forms a barrier along the cliff edge. A farm track skirts the enclosure at N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL018-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in rough pasture on top of a N-facing slope overlooking the River Dunneill to the NE and E. Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.55m) with external fosse (Wth 2-3.6m) and second bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.2m). A gap (Wth 2-3m), largely obscured by overgrowth, at E may be the original entrance. At S the outer bank (W 2.7m) has a low berm (Wth 1.8m) internally, probably the result of erosion or relatively modern modification. From WNW-N the inner bank is modified and incorporated into a field boundary and the fosse and outer bank have been levelled due to the construction of a now-abandoned vernacular cottage. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belville.
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 Belville, 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 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 Belville.
- 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 Belville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Belville · Béal Átha an Mhíl
- Area
- 1,776,528 m² (177.65 ha, 438.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 527 people lived in 205 households in the Dromore electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Carrowcor, Cloonascoffagh, Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Dunneill
- Placenames
- Belville 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.