Bellevue
Bellevue is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile Ghoidir.
- Area
- 261.2 ha
- 645 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 4,230 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellevue, from 28 m² to 432,741 m² (43.27 ha, 106.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bellevue 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
28 Feb 2026N/a
the existing wastewater treatment system and site entrance constructed under previous planning grant, file ref. no.: 16/600897. The retention of a habitable mobile home for a temporary duration to complete the proposed works. The retention of ancillary storage sheds and a polytunnel. PERMISSION is sought for the erection of a dwelling & garage, including associated works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660177
17 Feb 2026N/a
a dwelling and garage, including associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660130
10 Dec 2021Conditional
construction of a replacement part-storey and a half dwelling house, change of use of existing dilapidated dwelling house to a domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211793
26 Nov 2021Conditional
extension to existing dwelling house
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211713
9 Nov 2020Conditional
as built garage/fuel store and permission for construction of single storey extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works thereto
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201318
22 Mar 2019Conditional
to upgrade existing jetty
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600262
25 Feb 2019N/a
upgrade existing jetty
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600160
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellevue.
Architectural heritage
- Bellevue House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1790, with three-bay side elevations, three-bay two-storey return to rear and breakfront to central bays. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimneystacks. Ashlar limestone front façade with cut-stone cornice, remaining elevations rendered. Timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, with stone sills. Doorway in cut-stone doorcase with pilasters and approached by steps over basement. Extensive outbuildings added to southwest in later nineteenth century. Lawns to front with ha-ha. Three-bay single-storey derelict gate lodge to southeast, having pitched slated roof, rendered walls with stucco quoins and surrounds to openings with timber sash one-over-one pane windows and timber battened door. Main gateway has cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates with cut-stone piers and quadrant walls.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bellevue, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellevue.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Bellevue, Coolbawn6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Bellevue · Baile Ghoidir
- Area
- 2,611,810 m² (261.18 ha, 645.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 646 people lived in 248 households in the Kilbarron electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyscanlan, Brookfield, Clonmakilladuff, Coolbaun, Curraghmore, Gortmunga, O'Meara's Acres, Scarragh, Scriboge
- Placenames
- Bellevue 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.