Bella
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolagh, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Béal Átha
- Area
- 111.3 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 15,439 m² (1.54 ha, 3.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bella, from 201 m² to 135,862 m² (13.59 ha, 33.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bella 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
10 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of : (a) Internal modifications and replace rear single storey extension; (b) Construct new single storey side extension for new kitchen /dining & living room to existing 3 bed domestic dwelling;(c) Demolition and relocation of existing fuel store shed and (d) New pumped private domestic well at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21514
25 May 2020Conditional
of development which consists of a utility store and shed constructed within the curtilage of existing dwelling house at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20187
13 Dec 2019Conditional
to construct a new forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19643
30 Jan 2017Conditional
Planning Permission for 1 No. forest road access onto the Local Road, with associated turning head, security barrier and new boundary fencing at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1733
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardagh Bog 001222
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bella.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bella.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bella.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bella with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Bella · Béal Átha
- Area
- 1,113,304 m² (111.33 ha, 275.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Kilcolagh, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Carrigeen, Drishaghaun, Knockglass, Lurgan, Mantuar
- Placenames
- Bella 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.