# Belra, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo; in Irish Béalra.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 751,297 m² (75.13 ha, 185.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,517 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Achonry, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/achonry.md
- Barony: Leyny
- Electoral division: Cartron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45592
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200187
- Centre: latitude 54.129512, longitude -8.678938 (WGS 84)

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

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belra, from 747 m² to 123,961 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 761702: 123,961 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761702.md
- Parcel 730812: 87,272 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730812.md
- Parcel 5361483: 63,650 m² (6.37 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5361483.md
- Parcel 761748: 62,690 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761748.md
- Parcel 761717: 59,506 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761717.md
- Parcel 5392288: 56,831 m² (5.68 ha, 14.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5392288.md
- Parcel 5474304: 53,664 m² (5.37 ha, 13.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5474304.md
- Parcel 761749: 46,873 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761749.md
- Parcel 778393: 42,456 m² (4.25 ha, 10.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778393.md
- Parcel 761750: 30,386 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761750.md
- Parcel 761751: 26,078 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761751.md
- Parcel 749263: 23,517 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749263.md
- Parcel 761292: 18,386 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761292.md
- Parcel 749120: 17,928 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749120.md
- Parcel 5405716: 12,880 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5405716.md
- Parcel 761165: 6,507 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761165.md
- Parcel 2956488: 4,567 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2956488.md
- Parcel 767361: 4,146 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/767361.md
- Parcel 748644: 3,529 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/748644.md
- Parcel 2639213: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639213.md
- Parcel 760196: 1,540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/760196.md
- Parcel 2918137: 1,384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2918137.md
- Parcel 761703: 747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/761703.md

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

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.

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

1 application, newest first.

- 15 Sept 2026, Sligo County Council 2660377: N/a. Permission. :construct access entrance to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660377/0

Applicants are not shown.

## 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 Belra.

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

- SL032-232: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL032-232----. 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

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 Belra.

## 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 Belra, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/sligo/belra.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/belra.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/belra.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Carrowmurray: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowmurray.md
- Carrownloughan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownloughan.md
- Cashel North: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cashel-north.md
- Gortnadrass: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gortnadrass.md
- Knocknashee Common: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knocknashee-common.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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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/belra
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/belra