# Behy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,528,207 m² (352.82 ha, 871.84 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,633 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbarron, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilbarron.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,738 people lived in 624 households in the Ballyshannon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13805
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50314
- Centre: latitude 54.519356, longitude -8.12458 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 267 m² to 313,700 m² (31.37 ha, 77.52 acres); 36 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1312062: 313,700 m² (31.37 ha, 77.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312062.md
- Parcel 1376917: 294,649 m² (29.46 ha, 72.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376917.md
- Parcel 1418357: 258,438 m² (25.84 ha, 63.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418357.md
- Parcel 1313138: 226,306 m² (22.63 ha, 55.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313138.md
- Parcel 1383137: 181,460 m² (18.15 ha, 44.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383137.md
- Parcel 1426388: 88,362 m² (8.84 ha, 21.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426388.md
- Parcel 1353408: 86,387 m² (8.64 ha, 21.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353408.md
- Parcel 1317837: 79,645 m² (7.96 ha, 19.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317837.md
- Parcel 1318347: 79,331 m² (7.93 ha, 19.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318347.md
- Parcel 1418354: 78,281 m² (7.83 ha, 19.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418354.md
- Parcel 1383684: 76,847 m² (7.68 ha, 18.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383684.md
- Parcel 1316632: 74,637 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316632.md
- Parcel 1383686: 71,846 m² (7.18 ha, 17.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383686.md
- Parcel 1387965: 70,715 m² (7.07 ha, 17.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387965.md
- Parcel 1333562: 68,414 m² (6.84 ha, 16.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333562.md
- Parcel 1383687: 65,328 m² (6.53 ha, 16.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383687.md
- Parcel 1422341: 65,182 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422341.md
- Parcel 1380168: 64,804 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380168.md
- Parcel 1418353: 62,054 m² (6.21 ha, 15.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418353.md
- Parcel 1428775: 60,140 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428775.md
- Parcel 1418355: 59,889 m² (5.99 ha, 14.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418355.md
- Parcel 1383683: 51,279 m² (5.13 ha, 12.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383683.md
- Parcel 1418351: 51,085 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418351.md
- Parcel 1384450: 50,935 m² (5.09 ha, 12.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384450.md
- Parcel 1353786: 47,223 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353786.md
- Parcel 1387967: 45,028 m² (4.5 ha, 11.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387967.md
- Parcel 1383685: 44,355 m² (4.44 ha, 10.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383685.md
- Parcel 1387961: 42,314 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387961.md
- Parcel 3659374: 42,140 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659374.md
- Parcel 1347219: 41,003 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347219.md
- Parcel 1387962: 39,884 m² (3.99 ha, 9.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387962.md
- Parcel 1422981: 37,324 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422981.md
- Parcel 1387966: 34,377 m² (3.44 ha, 8.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387966.md
- Parcel 1403134: 33,561 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403134.md
- Parcel 1348060: 32,351 m² (3.24 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348060.md
- Parcel 1383688: 31,451 m² (3.15 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383688.md
- Parcel 1346240: 30,163 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346240.md
- Parcel 1333076: 30,048 m² (3 ha, 7.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333076.md
- Parcel 3659373: 29,979 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659373.md
- Parcel 3659375: 27,836 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659375.md
- Parcel 1428910: 27,633 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428910.md
- Parcel 1418349: 25,359 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418349.md
- Parcel 1313500: 24,950 m² (2.49 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313500.md
- Parcel 1422980: 24,742 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422980.md
- Parcel 1369769: 21,101 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369769.md
- Parcel 1339573: 21,029 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339573.md
- Parcel 1371820: 20,913 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371820.md
- Parcel 1418352: 20,723 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418352.md
- Parcel 1319618: 15,129 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319618.md
- Parcel 1418350: 13,105 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418350.md
- Parcel 1412577: 13,015 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412577.md
- Parcel 1369707: 12,538 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369707.md
- Parcel 1387963: 10,822 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387963.md
- Parcel 1418356: 10,812 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418356.md
- Parcel 1418359: 10,778 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418359.md
- Parcel 1423802: 10,277 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423802.md
- Parcel 1380169: 7,633 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380169.md
- Parcel 1316020: 7,607 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316020.md
- Parcel 1346230: 7,490 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346230.md
- Parcel 1313713: 5,037 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313713.md
- Parcel 4794012: 4,626 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794012.md
- Parcel 2501947: 4,409 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501947.md
- Parcel 4913420: 3,971 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4913420.md
- Parcel 4856107: 3,618 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856107.md
- Parcel 4856294: 3,273 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856294.md
- Parcel 4627074: 3,134 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627074.md
- Parcel 5281995: 2,946 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5281995.md
- Parcel 1369900: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369900.md
- Parcel 1354646: 2,404 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354646.md
- Parcel 4659386: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659386.md
- Parcel 4856321: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856321.md
- Parcel 4859655: 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859655.md
- Parcel 1312525: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312525.md
- Parcel 1311373: 1,760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311373.md
- Parcel 1308606: 1,403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308606.md
- Parcel 1346269: 1,072 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346269.md
- Parcel 1399603: 946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399603.md
- Parcel 5634863: 582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5634863.md
- Parcel 3659372: 577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659372.md
- Parcel 5980946: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5980946.md
- Parcel 5980958: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5980958.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 20 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350873: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, REED BED AND TERTIARY WETLAND AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350873/0
- 14 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051118: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051118/0
- 15 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851741: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851741/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Behy.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Behy.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Violet Cottage, house, 1700–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40910760, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40910760. 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, registry number 40910761, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40910761. 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.

## 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 Behy, 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. Parts of the land 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, 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/donegal/behy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/behy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/behy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Behy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cashelard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelard.md
- Cavangarden: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavangarden.md
- Coolcholly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/coolcholly.md
- Doobally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doobally.md
- Knader: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knader.md
- Tullyhorky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyhorky.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.

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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.

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