# Bellaneeny, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 563,267 m² (56.33 ha, 139.19 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,249 m² (2.92 ha, 7.23 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Taghmaconnell, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/taghmaconnell.md
- Barony: Athlone South
- Electoral division: Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 315 people lived in 106 households in the Taghmaconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42592
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190250
- Centre: latitude 53.407657, longitude -8.155329 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellaneeny, from 476 m² to 115,585 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 646084: 115,585 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/646084.md
- Parcel 646083: 114,707 m² (11.47 ha, 28.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/646083.md
- Parcel 644386: 58,582 m² (5.86 ha, 14.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/644386.md
- Parcel 6215292: 53,846 m² (5.38 ha, 13.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6215292.md
- Parcel 646082: 51,307 m² (5.13 ha, 12.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/646082.md
- Parcel 686172: 49,968 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/686172.md
- Parcel 676832: 39,470 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/676832.md
- Parcel 686171: 29,909 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/686171.md
- Parcel 679391: 28,589 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679391.md
- Parcel 667013: 5,459 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667013.md
- Parcel 5394557: 3,062 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5394557.md
- Parcel 5616416: 2,650 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5616416.md
- Parcel 720453: 2,505 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/720453.md
- Parcel 2884269: 2,327 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2884269.md
- Parcel 2884265: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2884265.md
- Parcel 6215279: 476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6215279.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 22 Dec 2025, Roscommon County Council 2660001: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for development which will consist of the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660001/0
- 19 Dec 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560604: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560604/0
- 20 Jul 2023, Roscommon County Council 23312: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23312/0
- 30 May 2019, Roscommon County Council 19291: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and install waste water treatment unit with polishing filter at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/19291/0
- 13 Mar 2018, Roscommon County Council 18115: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/18115/0
- 8 Mar 2018, Roscommon County Council 18105: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/18105/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellaneeny.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO051-024: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-024----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025006-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025007-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025009-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-025011-. 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), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-026----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bellaneeny, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Bellaneeny.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/bellaneeny.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/bellaneeny.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/bellaneeny.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bellaneeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Coolfree: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/coolfree.md
- Dundonnell: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/dundonnell.md
- Onagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/onagh.md
- Rockland: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rockland.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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