Behagh

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behagh, from 166 m² to 396,163 m² (39.62 ha, 97.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2Cluster (General)
  Behagh Cluster, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a new 3 storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21449

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  to build a single storey dwelling, treatment system with associated percolation area, vehicular entrance and ancillaries

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18321

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  to build a 2-storey dwelling and detached garage, treatment system with associated percolation area, vehicular entrance and ancillaries

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18322

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL003-018 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the summit at the W end of a low E–W ridge of good mixed pasture and meadowland. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1915 ed., it is again hachured but with an outer concentric field boundary indicated from NW–SE by a solid line. A very poorly preserved circular cashel (est. int. dims 33.6m E–W; 33m N–S) defined by a short arc of inner and outer cashel wall facing-stones at N (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.1m), a low narrow grassed-over stony bank (Wth 3.6m at base; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.4m) from NNE–SE and a stony spread (Wth 4.9m at base; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) from SSE–WSW. Some original outer facing-stones also survive to the SSE. From WSW–NNW, a later stone wall has been built on/close to the original line of the cashels inner face and a wide spread of cleared field stones have been piled up against the outer face of this wall obscuring the original enclosing element. A shed (4m x 4.3m) has been built on and inside the cashel wall line at WNW. A building is indicated on the OS 1st ed map at that location. The E half of the interior has been dug out (av. D 0.9m). Stone is visible in the scarp face separating the higher W half of the interior from the disturbed E, but this stone may just be the natural rock and not a facing effort. A later field wall runs N–S over the E limits of the interior. There is a dense patch of vegetation in the N sector (4m E–W x 2m N–S), which may indicate the location of a souterrain (CL003-018001-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-018001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the interior of a poorly preserved cashel at the W end of the summit of a low E–W ridge of good mixed pasture and meadowland. A dense patch of vegetation in the N sector (4m E–W x 2m N–S), may indicate the presence of a souterrain. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-019 Field system
  Description

  Listed as ‘Enclosure complex’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A possible field system was visible on an Air Corps aerial photograph (V231/65) taken in 1954. On inspection in 1997 this was found to be an area of partially reclaimed rough outcropping rock at the W foot of Abbey Hill. No archaeological features were noted. According to the landowner some paddocks and sheep shelters had been cleared away some years previously. An arc of a possibly medieval enclosure, a small possible hut site and some lazy beds are visible on Ordnance Survey orthophotographs 2013-2018 in an area of rock outcrop surrounded by reclaimed fields. The following image has been uploaded: CL003-019----_01.jpg Ordnance Survey orthophoto 2013-2018 Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 15 December 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Behagh.

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 Behagh, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Behagh.

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 Behagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Behagh · An Bheitheach

Area

1,808,017 m² (180.8 ha, 446.77 acres)

Civil parish

Oughtmama, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Abbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 212 households in the Abbey electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey East, Abbey West, Dooneen, Mortyclogh, Munnia, Rossalia

Placenames

Behagh 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.