Beheens West

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beheens West, from 170 m² to 533,677 m² (53.37 ha, 131.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Beheens West 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.

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  To construct shed for calving cows in place of the existing cubicle shed used for calving cows. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report has been included.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560055

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  To Construct a soiled water and effluent tank complete with rain cover, sump tank, agitation points and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been included with this application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360077

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED CATTLE SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE COMPLETE WITH SLATTED SLURRY TANKS, PENNING, BARRIERS, CANOPY AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211066

• 10 Feb 2021Conditional

  BUILD A DWELLING HOUSE, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21107

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE EASY FEED SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AND AN OVERGROUND STEEL SLURRY TOWER, COMPLETE WITH SUMP TANK AND ROOF AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201204

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  RETAIN THEIR ATTIC CONVERSION AND OUTBUILDINGS TOGETHER WITH PLANNING PERMISSION TO BUILD AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR, MINOR ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE AND COVERED / WALLED PATIO AREAS TO THE SIDE AND ALL ASSOCIATES SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 20502

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM GREYHOUND KENNELS TO BEAGLE KENNELS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19343

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 Beheens West.

Recorded monuments

• KE016-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not marked on any edition of the OS maps, it was known locally as 'Tobar Uí Laighin' (Folklore Commission of Ireland 1938-39). Situation and Description: This well lies SW of a levelled burial ground (KE016-029----). The well is thought to have been dedicated to St Brigid. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 925. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE016-029 Burial ground
  Description

  This site is possibly the 'Old burial ground near a well (KE016-028----) called "Tobar Ui Leidhin" that Ó Danachair (1958) refers to. It is now much levelled and is cut by a fieldbank running in a NW-SE direction. The site consists of a sub-circular earthen bank which is low and wide. It measures c 8m in width at the base of the bank, with the external height measuring .6m-.8m and the internal height .4m-.8m. In the interior is a semi-circular enclosure measuring internally 10m N-S and 12m E-W, with the in-curve facing NNE. The overall internal diameter measures 54m N-S and 40m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 872. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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 Beheens West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Beheens West · Na Beithíní Thiar

Area

1,165,348 m² (116.53 ha, 287.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshenane, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Rathea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathea electoral division: 423 people in 166 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduhig, Beheens East, Furhane, Toornageehy

Placenames

Beheens West 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.