# Behagh, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Oughtmama, barony of Burren, Co. Clare; in Irish An Bheitheach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,808,017 m² (180.8 ha, 446.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,259 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): O2 Cluster, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Oughtmama, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/oughtmama.md - Barony: Burren - Electoral division: Abbey, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5688 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30357 - Centre: latitude 53.139267, longitude -9.058765 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behagh, from 166 m² to 396,163 m² (39.62 ha, 97.89 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1442728: 396,163 m² (39.62 ha, 97.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442728.md - Parcel 1429876: 372,879 m² (37.29 ha, 92.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429876.md - Parcel 1520477: 209,788 m² (20.98 ha, 51.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520477.md - Parcel 1436374: 169,566 m² (16.96 ha, 41.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436374.md - Parcel 4755901: 120,261 m² (12.03 ha, 29.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755901.md - Parcel 1520476: 114,098 m² (11.41 ha, 28.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520476.md - Parcel 1482514: 97,973 m² (9.8 ha, 24.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482514.md - Parcel 1503171: 83,129 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503171.md - Parcel 1440037: 69,086 m² (6.91 ha, 17.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1440037.md - Parcel 1438469: 61,620 m² (6.16 ha, 15.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438469.md - Parcel 1435173: 17,708 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435173.md - Parcel 4948584: 15,240 m² (1.52 ha, 3.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4948584.md - Parcel 1508803: 10,990 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508803.md - Parcel 1430874: 10,613 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430874.md - Parcel 5219892: 9,602 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219892.md - Parcel 1519849: 7,681 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519849.md - Parcel 5733394: 6,259 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5733394.md - Parcel 1483883: 5,332 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483883.md - Parcel 1481866: 5,200 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481866.md - Parcel 1499377: 4,230 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499377.md - Parcel 1461719: 3,509 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461719.md - Parcel 1466537: 3,289 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1466537.md - Parcel 1493565: 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1493565.md - Parcel 6103648: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6103648.md - Parcel 1444814: 1,601 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444814.md - Parcel 1477628: 1,266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477628.md - Parcel 1453459: 1,087 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453459.md - Parcel 4875016: 1,030 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875016.md - Parcel 1486130: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1486130.md - Parcel 6103587: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6103587.md - Parcel 6103621: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6103621.md - Parcel 6103596: 188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6103596.md - Parcel 6103615: 166 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6103615.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - O2 Cluster (General): Behagh Cluster, Clare; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=97 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 10 May 2021, Clare County Council 21449: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new 3 storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21449/0 - 23 Apr 2018, Clare County Council 18321: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to build a single storey dwelling, treatment system with associated percolation area, vehicular entrance and ancillaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18321/0 - 23 Apr 2018, Clare County Council 18322: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to build a 2-storey dwelling and detached garage, treatment system with associated percolation area, vehicular entrance and ancillaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18322/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC, site code 001926, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001926 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex, site code 001926 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL003-018: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL003-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL003-018001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL003-019----. 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 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 Behagh. ## 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 Behagh, about 1 in 5 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 Behagh. - 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/clare/behagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/behagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/behagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Behagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbey East: https://everytownland.com/clare/abbey-east.md - Abbey West: https://everytownland.com/clare/abbey-west.md - Dooneen: https://everytownland.com/clare/dooneen-31046.md - Mortyclogh: https://everytownland.com/clare/mortyclogh.md - Munnia: https://everytownland.com/clare/munnia.md - Rossalia: https://everytownland.com/clare/rossalia.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. --- 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/clare/behagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/behagh