Belville

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belville, from 242 m² to 319,058 m² (31.91 ha, 78.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Belville 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.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain as follows (1) Retention of single-storey extension to rear and side of existing dwelling to provide ancillary accommodation (previously granted planning reference 82952); (2) Retention of altered front entrance door to dwellinghouse; (3) Retention of single-storey extension to detached garage; (4) Retention of single-storey detached garden shed; (5) Retention of single-storey detached glasshouse

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660014

• 20 Jun 2018Conditional

  Sand and gravel quarry of 2.75 H.a , creation of a new entrance and access road to service quarry traffic, use of existing plant and machinery and erection of stock-proof fencing around the application site

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 187110

• 14 Nov 2017N/a

  The development will consist of the 2.04 hectare extension to quarry permitted under substitute consent An Bord Pleanala Ref: SU25.SU0052, creation of a new entrance and access road to service quarry traffic, and erection of stock-proof fencing around the application site

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177205

• 1 Sept 2017N/a

  The development will consist of the 2.04Ha extension to quarry permitted under substitute Consent An Bord Pleanala Ref: SU25.SU0052

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177163

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 Belville.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Belville.

Architectural heritage

• Belville, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lodge originally serving Belville House, built c.1820, having an open veranda to the front (north) supported on cast-iron posts and a single-storey return to the rear (south). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a central rendered brick chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Round-headed window openings to the front façade having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorcase, now blocked. Set back from road at a right angle to the road alignment, facing former approach avenue to Belville House. Rendered boundary wall to front of lodge. Rendered single-storey outbuilding located adjacent to the west having a pitched corrugated metal roof. Located to the south of former gates serving Belville House, erected c.1820, comprising four rendered rubble limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with wrought-iron double gates to the centre, flanked by wrought-iron railings over rubble limestone walls to the north and south. Located to the west of the site of Belville House.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Belville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Belville

Area

980,196 m² (98.02 ha, 242.21 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyloughloe, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Carn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carn electoral division: 805 people in 277 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnpark, Clonrelick, Creeve, Twyford, Warren High

Placenames

Belville 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.