Belra

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belra, from 747 m² to 123,961 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Belra 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.

• 15 Sept 2026N/a

  :construct access entrance to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660377

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 Belra.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-232 Souterrain
  Description

  In level pasture, at the SW end of a barely discernible rise (diam. c. 10m). A small area of surface subsidence reveals part of a lintel. A partially blocked opening beneath the lintel leads into the SW side of a small oval drystone-built chamber (c. 2m N-S; c. 1m E-W). The walls are slightly corbelled and are roofed with lintels. A small opening at the base of the chamber wall at NE may be a creepway. The interior of the chamber is partially infilled with rubbish. The floor of the chamber appears to slope down from S to N. A rath (SL032-011----) lies c. 220m to WNW. 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 Belra.

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 Belra, 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 Belra.

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

Name

Belra · Béalra

Area

751,297 m² (75.13 ha, 185.65 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Cartron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

157 people lived in 64 households in the Cartron electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmurray, Carrownloughan, Cashel North, Gortnadrass, Knocknashee Common

Placenames

Belra 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.