Behaghane

175 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behaghane, from 13 m² to 485,716 m² (48.57 ha, 120.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Behaghane 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.

• 29 Jan 2025Refused

  FOR THE RESTORATION AND ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, ALONG WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, CONVERSION OF THE ATTACHED ANNEX BUILDING TO DWELLING ACCOMMODATION AND CAR PORT. THE REMOVAL OF TREES AND VEGETATION AND THE LOWERING OF THE ROADSIDE SOD AND STONE FENCE TO IMPROVE SIGHTLINES. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2518

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  Retention planning permission to retain extensions to the original ‘Old School Residence’ dwelling, within revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460920

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  TO RETAIN THE EXISTING STORAGE SHED AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE FOR PRIVATE DOMESTIC USE AT THEIR PROPERTY

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24145

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  RETAIN PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISITNG SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND PERMISSION TO COMPLTEE SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ALONG WITH PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SETPIC TANK AND TO INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231121

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) WORKS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS, ALTERATIONS TO INTERNAL LAYOUT AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING, (2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC, STEEL SHED TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23683

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221025

• 23 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECT A 15M MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE ANTENNAS DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING AND EXTEND EXISTING ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21970

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201222

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  FOR SCALED SOLAR WALK INSTALLATIONS AT 10 NO. LOCATIONS BETWEEN CAHERDANIEL VILLAGE IN BALLYCARNAHAN AND EAST ALONG THE KERRY WAY, AS FAR AS KILCROHANE CHURCHYARD IN BEHAGHANE, COMPRISING OF 7 NO. INSTALLATIONS IN BALLYCARNAHAN, 2 NO. INSTALLATIONS IN COAD AND 1 NO. INSTALLATION IN BEHAGHANE ALL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1741

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Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE106-029 Mine - copper
  Description

  St Crohane’s Hermitage: This primitive mine, exploiting a mineralised copper-bed occurrence, is located c. 300m NE of the summit of Coad mountain. The upper reaches of the Behaghane river flow immediately at W, and the site holds a commanding view over Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to SE. The mine comprises a small horizontal opening driven 55 degrees into the W face of a scarp exposure of a quartz-sulphide vein. The working measures 2.2m wide at the entrance, narrowing to 1.2m near the rear and is 4.8m deep. The height inclines from 2.1m at the entrance to 1m at the rear, and a thin deposit of earth and stones overlies its floor. The surfaces of the back and hanging walls are streaked with green malchite mineralisation. Their smooth and polished concave profiles suggests the possible use of fire-setting. There are no identifiable associated spoil dumps with this working. The existence of shafts and denuded spoil-dumps further along the quartz reel indicate that intermittent industrial mining activities took place here in the nineteenth century. Some of these trials, however, may relate to the industrial activities of Sir William Petty and the Kenmare Colony during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (O’Brien 1987, 275-83). The primitive mine was used as a forge in 1808 (Ó Suilleabhain 1945, 24), and a drystone rectangular structure located adjacent to it may be related to the later mining activities. This primitive copper mine is known locally as St Crohane’s Cell or Carraig Chrócháin, and is dedicated to St Crohane, the patron saint of the parish (OSL). It was visited as a station of a turas or pilgrimage during the now defunct three-day pattern of Kilcrohane, which commenced at Toberavilla (KE106-032003-) on 29 July. Both Smith and Pococke recorded an association between the mine and St Kieran of Seir who is reputed to have composed his rule here (1756, 93; in Ó Maidín 1959, 36). Associated with the later phase of the site are two roughly built and slightly curving walls which extend to SE and SW from either side of the mine-face. They average 2m long, .4m high and .5m wide. Lying on the surface of the E wall is a small slab which bears a deeply scratched linear cross on its upper surface. A series of stones form a step at the rear of the mine and may also be of late date. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 259. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE106-029001 Hermitage
  Description

  St Crohane’s Hermitage: This primitive mine, exploiting a mineralised copper-bed occurrence, is located c. 300m NE of the summit of Coad mountain. The upper reaches of the Behaghane river flow immediately at W, and the site holds a commanding view over Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to SE. The mine comprises a small horizontal opening driven 55 degrees into the W face of a scarp exposure of a quartz-sulphide vein. The working measures 2.2m wide at the entrance, narrowing to 1.2m near the rear and is 4.8m deep. The height inclines from 2.1m at the entrance to 1m at the rear, and a thin deposit of earth and stones overlies its floor. The surfaces of the back and hanging walls are streaked with green malchite mineralisation. Their smooth and polished concave profiles suggests the possible use of fire-setting. There are no identifiable associated spoil dumps with this working. The existence of shafts and denuded spoil-dumps further along the quartz reel indicate that intermittent industrial mining activities took place here in the nineteenth century. Some of these trials, however, may relate to the industrial activities of Sir William Petty and the Kenmare Colony during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (O’Brien 1987, 275-83). The primitive mine was used as a forge in 1808 (Ó Suilleabháin 1945, 24), and a drystone rectangular structure located adjacent to it may be related to the later mining activities. This primitive copper mine is known locally as St Crohane’s Cell or Carraig Chrócháin, and is dedicated to St Crohane, the patron saint of the parish (OSL). It was visited as a station of a turas or pilgrimage during the now defunct three-day pattern of Kilcrohane, which commenced at Toberavilla (KE106-032003-) on 29 July. Both Smith and Pococke recorded an association between the mine and St Kieran of Seir who is reputed to have composed his rule here (1756, 93; in Ó Maidín 1959, 36). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 259. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE106-029002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Tobercrohane/Tobar Crócháin (Well of St. Cróchán): No surface trace survives of this well which was located close to the prehistoric copper mine known as St Crohane’s Hermitage, or Carraig Chrócháin (KE106-029----). In the late nineteenth century it was ‛scarcely visible’, but was still visited for the curative powers of its waters (OSRNB). It was the second of three holy wells visited as stations of a turas or pilgrimage during the now defunct three-day pattern of Kilcrohane, which commenced at Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-). Holy Well described in 1945 as follows: 'a small well of water, which is now scarcely visible, situate in the td. of Behaghane and quite close to Carrigcrohane. It is annually visited by people for alleged [an focal deiridh scriosta] curative purpose' (Ó Cíobháin 1984, 24) The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1053. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 May 2022

• KE106-029004 Mine - copper
  Description

  St Crohane’s Hermitage: This primitive mine, exploiting a mineralised copper-bed occurrence, is located c. 300m NE of the summit of Coad mountain. The upper reaches of the Behaghane river flow immediately at W, and the site holds a commanding view over Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to SE. The mine comprises a small horizontal opening driven 55 degrees into the W face of a scarp exposure of a quartz-sulphide vein. The working measures 2.2m wide at the entrance, narrowing to 1.2m near the rear and is 4.8m deep. The height inclines from 2.1m at the entrance to 1m at the rear, and a thin deposit of earth and stones overlies its floor. The surfaces of the back and hanging walls are streaked with green malchite mineralisation. Their smooth and polished concave profiles suggests the possible use of fire-setting. There are no identifiable associated spoil dumps with this working. The existence of shafts and denuded spoil-dumps further along the quartz reel indicate that intermittent industrial mining activities took place here in the nineteenth century. Some of these trials, however, may relate to the industrial activities of Sir William Petty and the Kenmare Colony during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (O’Brien 1987, 275-83). The primitive mine was used as a forge in 1808 (Ó Suilleabháin 1945, 24), and a drystone rectangular structure located adjacent to it may be related to the later mining activities. This primitive copper mine is known locally as St Crohane’s Cell or Carraig Chrócháin, and is dedicated to St Crohane, the patron saint of the parish (OSL). It was visited as a station of a turas or pilgrimage during the now defunct three-day pattern of Kilcrohane, which commenced at Toberavilla (KE106-032003-) on 29 July. Both Smith and Pococke recorded an association between the mine and St Kieran of Seir who is reputed to have composed his rule here (1756, 93; in Ó Maidín 1959, 36). Associated with the later phase of the site are two roughly built and slightly curving walls which extend to SE and SW from either side of the mine-face. They average 2m long, .4m high and .5m wide. Lying on the surface of the E wall is a small slab which bears a deeply scratched linear cross on its upper surface. A series of stones form a step at the rear of the mine and may also be of late date. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 259. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE106-029005 Structure
  Description

  Associated with the later phase of the site are two roughly built and slightly curving walls which extend to SE and SW from either side of the mine-face. They average 2m long, .4m high and .5m wide. Lying on the surface of the E wall is a small slab which bears a deeply scratched linear cross on its upper surface. A series of stones form a step at the rear of the mine and may also be of late date. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 259. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE106-030 Mine - copper
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on upper S-facing upper slopes of Coad Mountain. Two shallow 19th-century drivings (5.3m E-W; 4.6m N-S; H 4.2m and 5.3m N-S; 4.8m E-W; H 3.5m) are excavated into the S face of an E-W rocky ridge displaying quartz veins. On the downslope to S are two spreads of quartz stones, the largest of which is c. 14m long. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE106-032001 Church
  Description

  Kilcrohane Church/Cill Chrócháin: This parish church, also known as Coad Church and traditionally dedicated to St Cróchán, the patron of the parish, is located close to the N boundary of a rectangular graveyard (KE106-032002-) on the lower SE slopes of Coad mountain. The site overlooks Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to S. The remains of a rectangular building, designated 'R.C. Chapel' on the OS maps, is located nearby at SW. Outside the NW corner of the graveyard is Toberavilla holy well (KE106-032003-), one of three wells formerly visited on the 30th of July to commemorate the feast day of St Cróchán (MacNeill 1962, 649). The church of 'Kilcrokan' is noted in the Papal Taxation List (1302-06) for the diocese of Ardfert (Cal Docs Ire, V, 298), and in 1398 the vicarage of 'Kyllerochan' was appropriated to the Abbey of Killaha, near Killorglin (Murphy 1915, 188, in Royal Visitation). It was included in a 1622 listing of parochial churches in the diocese, and one Edwardus Grayne was noted as minister for 'Kill-croghan' and 'Templenoe' in 1633 (TCD MS 2158, 94, 37). It was in ruins by the middle of the eighteenth century (Smith 1756, 70). The present rectangular remains measure 17.3m x 6.75m internally, and are built of split stone and rubble set in a lime and gravel mortar. The walls vary from .9m to 1.25m thick and survive to full height, except at W, where the gable stands only 2.75m high. The S wall and E gable both display a slight basal batter. The gable, heavily clad in ivy, has a narrow, single-light, round-headed window; this is 2.89m high and its head is grooved for glass. It features a plain transom, and drawbar sockets for a shutter are preserved. The window is set in an embrasure with splayed ingoings and a segmental rear arch, but the sill is obscured by overgrowth. An aumbry is located in the SE angle of the church, and has a step-lintelled head. A smaller lintelled niche is located at the E end of the N wall, 1.55m above ground level. Two pairs of opposing corbels project from the N and S walls, just below the level of the top of the window in the S wall. It has been suggested that these corbels served to support a rood-beam (O'Connell 1915, 229). A piscina, a window and a doorway are located in the S wall. The piscina, 0.6m from the E gable, is set in a coursed rubble recess with a pointed head formed by two inclining slabs. Its subrectangular conglomerate basin, broken at its outer edge, has a central drain. The narrow, round-headed window, 1.85m high, is located at the E end of the S wall; only its coursed W jamb survives externally. The head of the window, formed from a single stone, is set back from the external wall-face and has an arch of pitched slabs overhead. It is set in an embrasure with splayed ingoings which retain the sockets for a drawbar. Only the lower portion of the plunging sill is preserved. The segmental rear arch was raised on wooden centring anchored in two small nib-holes which survive just above its springing line. The pointed doorway is located near the W end of the S wall and is formed of coursed jambs and an arch of pitched slabs, the midsection of which has fallen. The slightly splayed ingoings of the doorway retain the sockets and channels for two drawbars. The segmental rear arch features traces of plank centring, the nib-holes for which survive at its springing line. Beam-holes and corbels on the N and S walls, W of the doorway, suggest that a wooden gallery or loft may have existed at this end of the church. O'Connell stated that this gallery was approached by an external stair at the NW angle (1915, 229), but no evidence for such a feature survives. Towards the E end of the N wall is a blocked niche, possibly for a tomb, roofed by a pointed arch of pitched slabs. A narrow plinth, 0.2m wide and largely obscured by overgrowth and rubble, runs along the base of this wall. The internal ground level of the church is raised as a result of extensive burials. Mounds of rubble occur within the building, and abut its external wall-face at S. In the graveyard, 6m S of the SE angle of the church, is an upright cross-inscribed slab. It measures 0.91m high and 0.3m x 0.07m at base. Its smooth W face bears a broadly grooved, single-line, Latin cross. In 2009 a graveyard survey carried out by Robert Hanbidge and Ann Frykler of Headland Archaeology Ltd. recorded the following details: 'Behaghane Graveyard/ Coad 'old' Burial ground is located approximately 2 km northwest of Castle Cove, 12.5 km southwest of Sneem and 9 km southeast of Waterville. The graveyard is located on a south facing slope overlooking Coad Harbor and Kenmare River, with surrounding farmland. Located just to the northwest of the burial grounds are a holy well and also a shrine erected for St Chrócháin with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. South of the graveyard is the Coad 'New' Burial ground, this modern 'extension' has car parking facilities. This graveyard is located on a north facing slope just to the northeast of a ring fort (KE106-033----) and hut site (KE106-033001-). The remains of the church are fairly intact, however the walls are excessively overgrown by ivy and other vegetation, and this also goes for the interior of the church where grass, fern and nettles are covering the floor level and the graves within the ruin. There are 27 graves surveyed within the church all unnamed, however due to the overgrowth some may have been overlooked. There are two larger piles of rubble within the church; the western one contains a possible quern stone. The church comprises of a two bay nave with rubble stone walls having rubble stone quoins. Remains of plastering are still visible to the interior. On the south wall are the remains of an originally pointed-arch door opening to having partially robbed out rubble stone voussoirs and surrounds. An internal camber-headed arch to doorway has rubble stone voussoirs. A narrow round-headed window is located to the east end of south wall having rubble stone surrounds and internal splayed reveals. The piscine is placed in a recess and has two inclining slabs forming a pointed head (O'Sullivan, 1996). The east wall is severely overgrown by ivy and the remains of the narrow single light window with internal splayed reveals are heavily overgrown and are barely visible. To the north the overgrowth covers the majority of the wall however there is a block up entrance/niche still visible. The west wall is the lowest and both the interior and exterior of the wall is completely overgrown. Located directly to the southwest are the ruins of a four-bay single-storey chapel. The chapel ruin is in a better condition then the church; the walls consist of roughly dressed rubble stone with dressed rubble stone quoins forming the corners. These are less overgrown. There are still remains of plaster on the interior of the walls; the floor within the ruin is covered by tall grass, fern and nettles. There are 15 unnamed grave markers and one empty grave setting surveyed within the interior of the chapel, due to overgrowth some may have been overlooked. On the south wall are the remains of two square-headed windows having dressed stone lintels, sills and rubble stone surrounds. There are also two square-headed door openings comprising of dressed stone lintels, roughly dressed and rendered rubble stone reveals. There are two fonts located to the east and west sides of the west and east doorways respectively and have square-headed openings. On the east wall there are visible remains of three blocked up square-headed windows, due to overgrowth these are not visible from the interior. The north wall is excessively overgrown on the exterior, while the interior is only partly overgrown. The west wall shows the remains of a blocked up square-headed window on the centre of the wall to the exterior, due to the presence of plaster on the interior wall surface, the interior of the window is not visible'. The above description is deriv

• KE106-032002 Graveyard
  Description

  Kilcrohane Church/Cill Chrócháin, also known as Coad Church and traditionally dedicated to St Cróchán, the patron of the parish, is located close to the N boundary of a rectangular graveyard (KE106-032002-) on the lower SE slopes of Coad mountain. The site overlooks Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to S. In 2009 a graveyard survey carried out by Robert Hanbidge and Ann Frykler of Headland Archaeology Ltd. recorded the following details: 'The graveyard is sub rectangular in shape and enclosed by a mortared rubble stone wall. The only entrance to the graveyard is in the southwest corner and consists of a pair of white painted wrought-iron gates. There are no paths or desire lines within the graveyard. The grounds where the graveyard is situated are highly uneven and there is a steep break in the landscape where no graves where surveyed due to the high risk of additional collapse of the ground. This break forms an upper and a lower platform in the graveyard. The church and the chapel ruins are both situated on the upper platform in the northern part of the graveyard. The church stands further to the east and is according to a local person, it is believed that the present church is built on top of an older church of which a window/door survives to the north. The chapel ruin is located to the southwest of the church. The boundary walls surrounding the burial grounds are of mortared rubble stone with rubble stone coping. Walls are intact and enclose the burial grounds completely, there is however a small stile created in the northwest corner with steps leading up to it, this small improvised opening leads to the shrine of St Chrochain with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Toberavilla holy well. The entrance consists of a double-leaf wrought iron gates painted white, hung from square-profile roughly dressed rubble stone gate piers with rubble stone capping. Of the 13 tombs present at Behaghane graveyard there was only one named tomb grv no. 445, this belongs to the Moriarty family and was originally erected for professor Owen Moriarty who was working at the Irish college in Paris and died 1810 at age of 95, his headstone was also inscribed with "afterwards P.P. and vicar for many years". This is also the oldest marked grave within the graveyard. There are only 45 named graves on Behaghane graveyard, these dates mostly from mid 19th century to mid 20th century. There are 13 unnamed headstones and plots within the graveyard, these are represented by simple stones with carved crosses. The vast majority of grave markers represented on Behaghane graveyard are those of the unnamed. There were in total 1091 graves of this type surveyed, however due to the ground conditions, rubble and excessive overgrowth with fern and tall grass some might have been overlooked. Their shape and sizes varies from being a simple natural stone on the ground as grv no. 1022 to be tall and shaped as grv no. 1154'. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1087. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Robert Hanbidge Date of revised upload: 4 August 2022

• KE106-032003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile: This spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). It is covered by a low drystone structure, on top of which lies a cross-incised slab measuring 0.44m x 0.12m x 0.1m thick. An ash tree, marked 'Old Tree' on the first edition of the OS map, formerly stood beside the well and was locally reputed to mark the grave of St Crohane. A flat-topped boulder, referred to locally as a massrock, is located 27m E of the well. It measures 1.5m x 0.45m x 0.7m high, and beside it is a recumbent slate slab on which are a number of lightly incised crosses. The well and sacred tree or bile formed the principal assembly point of the three-day pattern formerly held in this parish in honour of St Crohane (OSL; Ó Cíobháin 1984a, 23-4). This is considered by MacNeill to have been originally a Lughnasa pilgrimage-assembly (1962, 648-50), and commenced on July 29th, Oíche Chrócháin. It included a turas or pilgrimage from Kilcrohane up to Windy Gap, close to the summit of Eagles Hill, where another holy well, Tobar na Bearnan (KE098-086----), is located. En route rounds were also made at Tobercrohane well (KE106-029002-). The pattern has been in decline from the mid-nineteenth century, and since the 1940s Toberavilla has rarely been visited. Folklore collected by James Brennan, a pupil of Derryleagh School recorded the following tradition; 'There is another holy well at Code called St. Crohane's well. People go to this well every year on the 29th of July. There is a rock near the well and there is a representation of St. Crohane's back on it because it is said he stretched near this rock once. There is also a tree there and it is around the tree the people make the rounds' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0467, Pages 257-8; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742095/4735499). A second story collected from Sneem School recorded the following tradition; 'According to the old people St. Crohane is the patron saint of this place. The old Church ruins in Coad are dedictated to St. Crohane. The eastern stone has a slap of stone which is cut in the form of a cross. At the end of the ruin is a holy well shaded by a huge ash tree People pay rounds here on the thirtieth of July which is his feast day. Very long ago there was a man cured there. He was blind but nowadays there are no cures effected there there as it is more for pleasure people go there' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0468, Page 124; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742098/4735715/4924360) See attached photographs of Toberavilla and Turas Chrócháin, Co. Kerry, taken 1946 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00003 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16762 and F025.18.00005 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24632. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2022

• KE106-032004 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-) is spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). An ash tree, marked 'Old Tree' on the first edition of the OS map, formerly stood beside the well and was locally reputed to mark the grave of St Crohane. The well and sacred tree or bile formed the principal assembly point of the three-day pattern formerly held in this parish in honour of St Crohane (OSL; Ó Cíobháin 1984a, 23-4). This is considered by MacNeill to have been originally a Lughnasa pilgrimage-assembly (1962, 648-50), and commenced on July 29th, Oíche Chrócháin. It included a turas or pilgrimage from Kilcrohane up to Windy Gap, close to the summit of Eagles Hill, where another holy well, Tobar na Bearnan (KE098-086----), is located. En route rounds were also made at Tobercrohane well (KE106-029002-). The pattern has been in decline from the mid-nineteenth century, and since the 1940s Toberavilla has rarely been visited. See attached photograph of Toberavilla and Turas Chrócháin, Co. Kerry, taken 1946 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00005 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24632. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2022

• KE106-032005 Cross-slab
  Description

  Kilcrohane Church/Cill Chrócháin, also known as Coad Church and traditionally dedicated to St Cróchán, the patron of the parish, is located close to the N boundary of a rectangular graveyard (KE106-032002-) on the lower SE slopes of Coad mountain. The site overlooks Cove Harbour and Kenmare Bay to S. In the graveyard, 6m S of the SE angle of the church, is an upright cross-inscribed slab. It measures 0.91m high and 0.3m x 0.07m at base. Its smooth W face bears a broadly grooved, single-line, Latin cross. In 2009 a graveyard survey carried out by Robert Hanbidge and Ann Frykler of Headland Archaeology Ltd. recorded the following details: 'There is one cross slab present at Behaghane graveyard grv no. 575; this has previously been recorded as RMP KE106-032005. It is a simple erect stone slab with a faint carved cross, heavily eroded and also used as a scratching post by grazing sheep within the graveyard'. See attached photograph of Toberavilla and Turas Chrócháin, Co. Kerry, taken 1946 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.18.00004 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24631. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1087. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2022

• KE106-032006 Cross-slab
  Description

  Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-) is a spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). It is covered by a low drystone structure, on top of which lies a cross-incised slab measuring .44m x .12m x .1m thick. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE106-032007 Mass-rock
  Description

  Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-) is a spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). It is covered by a low drystone structure, on top of which lies a cross-incised slab measuring .44m x .12m x .1m thick. An ash tree, marked 'Old Tree' on the first edition of the OS map, formerly stood beside the well and was locally reputed to mark the grave of St Crohane. A flat-topped boulder, referred to locally as a massrock, is located 27m E of the well. It measures 1.5m x .45m x .7m high, and beside it is a recumbent slate slab on which are a number of lightly incised crosses. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE106-032008 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Toberavilla/Tobar an Bhile (KE106-032003-) is a spring well is located c. 30m WNW of Kilcrohane Medieval church and graveyard (KE106-032001-). It is covered by a low drystone structure, on top of which lies a cross-incised slab measuring .44m x .12m x .1m thick. An ash tree, marked 'Old Tree' on the first edition of the OS map, formerly stood beside the well and was locally reputed to mark the grave of St Crohane. A flat-topped boulder, referred to locally as a massrock, is located 27m E of the well. It measures 1.5m x .45m x .7m high, and beside it is a recumbent slate slab (KE106-032008-) on which are a number of lightly incised crosses. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1054. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE106-110 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of Coad Mountain, overlooking the Kenmare River to the S. This enclosure is visible on an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 157/116-7), taken in 1954, as a D-shaped area with the straight NE side formed by a field boundary. There is a vague trace of the remainder of the enclosure, on the aerial photograph, to the NE of the field boundary. It is indicated as an irregular area (c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and on the 1896 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (c. 20m NE-SW) with a straight NE side (L c. 40m). Archaeological monitoring during the construction of a house within the enclosure uncovered flecks of charcoal in the clay (c. 1m below ground level) within the S part of the house foundation trench. As the charcoal may have indicated activity associated with the enclosure, the material was not excavated and the ground level was subsequently raised. According to the excavator (Ní Loingsigh 2002, 140-41), the bank of the enclosure is formed of natural deposits of gravel. A natural gravel mound to the NW appears to have been landscaped to form the W and N banks of the enclosure and was possibly hollowed out to form the centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE106-117 Hut site
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 387, no. 1133). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE106-117001 Field boundary
  Description

  On the NE slopes of Coad, immediately N of Behaghane river, in rough scree-strewn pasture. Built into the slope, an almost square drystone hut with an inner facing of uprights and slabs set on edge. Exterior wall-face is sod-covered. There is much stone collapse externally at SE, and some old field walls occur in the near vicinity. A small rectangular structure built against a natural rock-face, possibly an animal shelter, occurs a short distance to S. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1133. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE107-007 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Castle Cove/Caisleán Bhun Inbhir: Tradition ascribes the building of this tower house, also known as Bunaneer Castle, both to the O'Sullivan Mores and the Brennans (OSL; RIA MS 24 K 43). It is recorded that a skirmish between O'Sullivan More's forces and a party of Cromwellians took place in a nearby field, named Droumfaddy, in 1641 (ibid.). The castle is situated on a low rise of rock outcrop on the N shore of Kenmare Bay, and commands fine views of the Beara Peninsula to S. The ruins consist of a rectangular tower house, 11.8m N-S x 9.9m E-W externally, built of split stone rubble laid in mortar with beach pebble and marine shell inclusions. The alternately face-bedded quoins are of sandstone, but most other dressings are of limestone. Two floors of the castle remain, but there is evidence that a third formerly existed. The N, E and W walls survive to just above the upper levels of the first floor but, apart from the attached return of the E wall, the S wall and much of the SW angle of the castle is destroyed. The internal planning of the building consists of a main chamber at each floor level adjoined by small mural chambers at W. The first and second storeys were floored with timber, and communication was by means of a stair in the NW angle which commences at ground floor level. The ground floor has a strong base batter returned to an average height of 2.8m. On each of the wall-faces is preserved the remains of a recessed triangular plane, which commences at the level of the batter return and increases in depth as it rises. The upper limits of the planes are defined by projecting sloping slabs, but their apexes do not survive. Similar features occur on a few tower houses elsewhere in Ireland in which gun loops, located at their apexes, served the walls below (Craig 1982, 103). The entrance to the castle is at ground floor level, midway along the W wall. The doorway is completely defaced but may have been fitted externally for a grille secured from the mural chamber in the S angle of the building by a chain passing through an ope, of which some traces remain. The flagged roof of the small entrance lobby has a murder-hole, served from the first floor mural chamber above. The end-wall of the chamber at S, which is largely infilled with rubble, has collapsed; it was entered from the lobby through a now defaced doorway. Communication with the main ground floor chamber is through a defaced doorway from the lobby, only the N jamb of which survives. The ground floor chamber is lit by windows with limestone dressings set in embrasures in the N and E walls; another may have existed in the collapsed S wall. That at N is ogee-headed and is set in a splayed, lintelled embrasure; it features chamfered jambs and the pivot-holes for a shutter survive. The E window is round-headed with chamfered jambs and was fitted with a shutter, the pivot-holes and drawbar sockets for which are preserved. It is set in a rectangular, lintelled embrasure wnli an angled N ingoing and a stepped S one. Near the E end of the N wall is a lintelled ope leading into a blocked, low passage which appears to curve downwards towards the foundations of the NE angle of the castle. Access to the upper floors was from the ground floor entrance lobby by means of a mural stair entered through a doorway, only the E jamb and lintel of which survives. The stair runs as a wide, angled flight to the NW angle of the building where it ascends in one and a half turns to the second floor level; it is lit by narrow loops with chamfered dressings and splayed ingoings in the N and E walls, one of which is fitted with a small slop-stone. The main first floor chamber was entered from the stair through a well-preserved doorway of pointed arch form with chamfered and punch-dressed jambs; the pivot-stones for the door, which was secured from within by a drawbar, survives at N and here the wall is splayed to receive the door. The location of the doorway in the NW angle of the chamber was facilitated by the provision of constructed squinch beneath. The chamber is lit windows set in embrasures in the N and E walls. The N window is ogee-headed, features a pivot-stone for a shutter, and has splayed ingoings; it is set in a large, rectangular, lintelled embrasure. The E window is flat-headed with chamfered jambs and sill; it inclines somewhat in elevation and features splayed ingoings and a lintelled rear arch. To its N side is a very broad set-back fireplace with a flat arch formed of pitched slabs; two putlog-type holes are visible on its rear face. Two mural chambers occur at the first floor level of the castle at W. Entry to the better preserved of these, that at N, is through a doorway from the stair, only the W jamb of which survives; the W wall of the chamber is checked to receive the door. The chamber was lit by an ogee-headed window with chamfered dressings set in a small, splayed embrasure; the drawbar sockets for a wooden shutter survive. To the S of the embrasure at floor level is a small lintelled wall-recess with splayed ingoings beside which, in the floor of the chamber, is the murder-hole. A ragged gap in the S wall leads into the second mural chamber, but it is unclear whether this marks the location of its original entrance. Only the N end of this chamber, which retains clear evidence of plastering, is preserved due to the collapse of the SW angle of the castle at this level. No section of the castle is preserved above the upper level of its first floor. However, the continuing ascent of the stair, the occurrence of corbels at the upper levels of the first floor chamber, and the presence of a gar-derobe near the NE angle at this level, the chute of which delivered through a discharge ope in the E wall, indicate the former existence of a second floor. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1104. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 175/1944).

Architectural heritage

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

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• Behaghane, Castlecove5 sales

Name

Behaghane · Beitheachán

Area

3,003,873 m² (300.39 ha, 742.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Caherdaniel, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Coad, Coomnahorna East, Garrough, Gortnamackanee, Gowlanes, Liss

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Behaghane on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.