Bellaneeny

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellaneeny, from 476 m² to 115,585 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bellaneeny 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.

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660001

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560604

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) Retention permission for existing 4 bay double slatted shed and 4 bay loose hay shed. (B) Planning Permission for Silage slab. (C) Planning permission for creep area extension to existing slatted shed and extension to loose hay shed together with all ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23312

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and install waste water treatment unit with polishing filter at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19291

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18115

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18105

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 Bellaneeny.

Recorded monuments

• RO051-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of a slight N-S ridge. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 32m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by a stone spread over an earthen core (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) N-E-S, surviving best at NE but reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.4m) S-W-N. There is no visible fosse, but the stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SE and there is a clearance cairn just E of the centre. The monument is bisected by a N-S field wall. It was extant until at least 2005 (OSAP) but it has been removed since then. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 April, 2013

• RO051-025001 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  Secure references date only from the late 16th century, although it is listed as Belathnaony in the Register of Clonmacnoise (O’Donovan 1856-7, 456). It is described as Carmelite or Fransciscan, but it was probably a Carmelite dependency of Slew or Slewseancough (Eglish), Co. Galway (GA061-080001-), although the identity of this house might be ascribed to a church site at Monasternalea (GA033-050001-) (Beggan 2016). A large territory between Oonagh, Dundonnell, Tullaghan (Turloughmore) and Knock is indicated as church land on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone). As the property of a suppressed monastery it was leased to Edmund O'Fallon in 1567 and the lease required him to construct a masonry corn mill. An inquisition of 1603 describes the precinct as a church and other buildings with a cemetery, an orchard and 15 acres (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 287). William Mc Edmond had 68 acres at Bellaneany, a subset of Oonagh, in 1641, but Sir Thomas Newcommen is the recorded owner of the O’Fallon acres in the 1660s (Simington 1949, 105). Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. The remains consist of the foundations of a church (int. dims 15.9m E-W; 6m N-S) which had a wall (Wth 2.85m; max. surviving H 2.5m) containing a passage and the base of a spiral stairs, inserted 4.2m from its W end. A pointed doorway (Wth 1.35m), now destroyed, led through the inserted wall. Attached to the church at N and E are grass-covered paddocks (RO051-025002-) (dims c. 20m x c. 20m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-4m; H 0.5m) with at least two rectangular house sites (RO051-026006-; RO051-025011-) (dims 8m x 5m) associated and a roadway (RO051-025007-) (Wth 5-9m; L c. 80m) bordered by earthen banks leading N from the complex. The road once extended further N (L c. 100m) (CUCAP: BDK 46-7). Architectural fragments were moved to Dundonnell (RO051-045----) c. 600m to the SW, and a stoup (RO051-025004-) at the Roman Catholic church of Bellaneeny c. 450m to the E may be from this location. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 7 October, 2019

• RO051-025002 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Attached to the church (RO051-025001-) at N are 4 grass-covered paddocks (dims c. 20m x c. 20m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-4m; H 0.5m) with at least two rectangular house sites (RO051-026006-). Beyond these there are field banks creating larger fields covering an area of c. 10 acres (c. 4 ha). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-025006 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. There are at least two rectangular house sites (dims 8m x 5m) associated and a roadway (RO051-025007-) at the Carmelite church (RO051-025001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-025007 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. A roadway (Wth 5-9m; L c. 80m) leading N from the complex of enclosures (RO051-025002-) around the church (RO051-025001-) is bordered by earthen banks. It once extended further N (L c. 100m) where it is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP BDK 46-7) from the 1970s but this section is now removed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-025009 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  There is an 18th or 19th century mill c. 200m SE of the Carmelite church (RO051-025001-), but there is no evidence of the masonry corn mill that Edmund O'Fallon was required to build by his lease of 1567 (Egan 1954-6, 20), although he probably developed the mill-ponds associated with it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-025011 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. There are at least two rectangular house sites (dims 8m x 5m) associated and a roadway (RO051-025007-) at the Carmelite church (RO051-025001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-026 Stoup (present location)
  Description

  A stoup from Bellaneeny Carmelite church (RO051-025001-) and a stone cross from the original Roman Catholic church of Bellaneeny are now kept within the grounds of the Roman Catholic church of Bellaneeny, c. 400m E of the Carmelite church. The stoup is a limestone piece (dims 0.35m x 0.36m) which would have half projected from the wall presenting five facets (H 0.19m) with the facets chamfered in below (H 0.5m). The basin (diam. 0.28m; D 0.1m) is flat-bottmed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 April 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Bellaneeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Bellaneeny

Area

563,267 m² (56.33 ha, 139.19 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmaconnell electoral division: 315 people in 106 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolfree, Dundonnell, Onagh, Rockland

Placenames

Bellaneeny 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.