Behanagh

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behanagh, from 122 m² to 162,299 m² (16.23 ha, 40.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Behanagh 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.

• 7 Jul 2026Conditional

  a milking parlour, dairy, collecting yard, slatted tank, meal bin, conversion of existing collecting yards to animal handling area and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660772

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  demolition of rear extension, side annex and adjoining shed, new roof including raising ridge height and removal of two no. chimneys, alterations to existing elevations and construction of new single storey extension to south and two storey extension to west of existing dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23432

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of a new calf shed and to extend and reorder the layout of the silage pits, re-route farm roadway and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21903

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  the completion of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area, entrance and all other site works previously granted under planning reference 09/327

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17692

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 Behanagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI060-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of low rise. Remains consist of a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 34m) defined by a scarp reused as an earth and stone field boundary (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m). Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Gap (Wth 3.55m) in bank at SSW. Field boundaries radiate out from the enclosure at E and NW. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/01/2020. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Behanagh.

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 Behanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Behanagh · Beithíneach

Area

1,309,208 m² (130.92 ha, 323.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilbeheny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbeheny electoral division: 270 people in 99 households; 87% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynatona, Boher, Carrigeen, Castlequarter, Churchquarter, Coolattin, Knockrour, Loughananna

Placenames

Behanagh 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.