Bellgrove
Townland in the civil parish of Finnoe, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Claí an Chrócaigh
- Area
- 53.2 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,979 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellgrove, from 2,165 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 169,510 m² (16.95 ha, 41.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bellgrove 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
No planning application touches the townland of Bellgrove in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellgrove.
Recorded monuments
- TN010-033 Earthwork
Description
Situated on demesne land on the SW-facing slope of a low hill in undulating countryside, 213m SE of Bellgrove House. Depicted as a circular platform-type earthwork the interior of which was planted with trees on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map, not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. May have been a tree-ring associated with the landscaping undertaken by the opccupants of Bellgrove House. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 January 2012
- TN010-034 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on the demense land of Bellgrove House on flat poorly drained pasture in undulating countryside. Depicted as a circular grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map with the townland boundary bisecting the SE quadrant of the site on a NE-SW axis. Not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. This feature appears to be a tree-ring of post-1700 date associated with Bellgrove House which is located 380m to the WNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellgrove.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1432 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bellgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Bellgrove · Claí an Chrócaigh
- Area
- 531,801 m² (53.18 ha, 131.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Finnoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Finnoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Finnoe electoral division: 209 people in 71 households; 85% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinderry, Bellpark, Mountfalcon, Springfield
- Placenames
- Bellgrove 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.