Befflaght

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Befflaght, from 167 m² to 1,735,171 m² (173.52 ha, 428.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Befflaght 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Befflaght 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

• DG058-003 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Situated on the SE facing slope of rising ground in mountain valley overlooking valley to the S and E with higher ground to the N and W. A long bog road runs off the S side of the main road ( R254) which runs through the Glenveagh National park. Approximately 1.2km in from the R254 there are a cluster of ruinous buildings with several small fields around the ruined house defined by a low stone drystone wall. The main house consists of a two bay single storey high rectangular building built with intermittently coursed granite rubble which is covered with an external render. The main room (int. dims. 4.1m NW-SE x 6.7m NE-SW; wall T 0.6m) of this house is accessed directly from a doorway in the centre of the SE wall, a second room (int. dims. 4.1m NW-SE x 3.9m NE-SW) is accessed through a doorway in the partition wall to the NE of the main room. The front doorway of the house was protected by a projecting porch. The internal walls of the house are covered in a lime render. The main room of this building was heated by a fireplace now mainly broken out that is located in the centre of the SW gable. This fireplace has a stone chimney hood that was supported on corbels which projected into the room of the house in a manner reminiscent of medieval fireplaces. This unusual stone fireplace may suggest that this house was built as early as the 17th century as this type of fireplace construction is not found in the 18th/19th century vernacular houses of this region. Alternatively this farmhouse may have been built in the 18th century with the fireplace built in a manner similar to the houses of the medieval period. The main room was lit by a window located in the SE wall which has evidence for a drawbar slot in the embrasure of the window opening. There is evidence for a second window in the NW wall and possibly a third window in the NW wall of this room. The smaller room to the NE has evidence for only one window which is located in the centre of the SE wall. A third room which is accessed from its own doorway in the SE wall appears to have been built onto the NE gable of this house. During this time an outhouse appears to have been built to the NE of the extension now forming an L-shaped range of buildings. To the SW of the house there is a two bay single storey high building with no evidence of any fireplace which may have been built later than the main house. The fields to the S and E represent the extent of the farmstead around this farmhouse and there is no evidence of any cultivation ridges within the fields which would suggest that they were built to stock livestock.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Befflaght, about 1 in 20 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 Befflaght.

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 Befflaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Befflaght · Beifleacht

Area

6,957,959 m² (695.8 ha, 1,719.35 acres)

Civil parish

Lettermacaward, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Doocharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

82 people lived in 40 households in the Doocharry electoral division. 36% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adderwal, Bingorms, Cloghernagore, Commeen, Derrynanaspol, Loughbarra or Croagheen, Meenachullion, Stranasaggart

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Befflaght 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.