Behy

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 267 m² to 313,700 m² (31.37 ha, 77.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Behy 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.

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, REED BED AND TERTIARY WETLAND AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350873

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051118

• 15 Nov 2018Refused

  A TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM WITH A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE (FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING) CONSISTING OF (A) UP TO 7 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 150 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS, (B) 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUB-STATION, (C) 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, (D) 1 NO. ANEMOMETRY MAST WITH A HEIGHT OF UP TO 100 METRES, (E) RECREATIONAL AMENITY TRAIL AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, (F) ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE SUBSTATION, (G) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND PROVISION OF ANY NEW SITE ACCESS ROADS REQUIRED INCLUDING NEW SITE ACCESS ONTO THE LOCAL ROAD NETWORK IN THE TOWNLAND OF TULLYHORKY AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE, (H) EXCAVATION OF 1 NO. BORROW PIT AND (I) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (INCLUDING TREE FEELING). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN SUBMITTED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851741

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 Behy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Behy.

Architectural heritage

• Violet Cottage, house, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1750, having modern single-bay single-storey extension to rear elevation (north). Now in use as holiday accommodation. Pitched reed thatch roof (laid over corrugated-metal sheeting) having raised rendered coping to gable ends (east and west) with kneeler stone-type detailing at eaves level, and with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to the centre). Smooth rendered walls over projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber casement windows and with painted sills. Square headed door opening offset to the east side of centre of the main elevation (south) having replacement timber battened door; doorway accessed by flight of five stone steps down from raised gravel forecourt to the south. Set well back from the road, and sited below road level, in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballyshannon. Gravel forecourts to front and rear. Site accessed from the south along gravelled laneway having rubble stone boundary walls. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, painted rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorway with timber door. Single-storey outbuildings to the south-west and north.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch slightly humpbacked bridge carrying road over the Behy River, built c. 1800, having modern V-profile concrete cutwaters to central pier. Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to pier, abutments, spandrels and parapets; rubble stone coping over parapets. Modern cement pointing in places; modern cement lining to river channel to either side of bridge. Rubble stone wing walls to either end of parapets (north and south). Tarmacadam deck with grass verges; concrete footpath to the east side. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballyshannon. Possible former fording point to the west side of bridge.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Behy

Area

3,528,207 m² (352.82 ha, 871.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshannon Rural electoral division: 1,738 people in 624 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashelard, Cavangarden, Coolcholly, Doobally, Knader, Tullyhorky

Placenames

Behy 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.