Kilbehy

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbehy, from 24 m² to 171,136 m² (17.11 ha, 42.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbehy 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.

• 8 Nov 2019Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191107

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gorteennamrock 001433

Recorded monuments

• LI011-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope, in area completely covered by dense scrub vegetation. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Sub-circular area (27.5m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m). Bank, best preserved at W, is generally denuded elsewhere becoming low and scarp-like at NE. Boulders dumped along external bank face at SSE immediately before it is incorporated into field boundary system at SW. Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, has slightly higher W half; oval area (5m N-S; 6.3m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (H 0.4m) in NW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, below brow of hill. Roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with an intervening fosse (Wth 1.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved NW->N, becomes scarp-like ENE->ESE. Outer bank (ext. H 0.6m), incorporated into dry-stone field boundary SE->SW, has been denuded N->NE. Fosse is littered with stones and organic debris. Interior, under pasture but covered by mature deciduous trees, slopes down to SE. Field boundary, shown abutting enclosure at NNW on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Kilbehy House, church/chapel, cross, country house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay country house, built in 1853, comprising single-bay two-storey centre-bay having stepped parapet and uPVC porch, projecting single-bay two-storey gable-fronted end-bay to east with lean-to uPVC conservatory to east elevation and bay window to rear (north) elevation, square-plan single-bay three-storey block to west having two-bay two-storey lean-to to rear. Single-bay single-storey extension to east. Pitched slate roof to gable-fronted end bay with overhanging eaves, timber brackets, bargeboards and red brick chimneystack. Hipped slate roof to west end bay. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to ground floor, gable-fronted end bay having render label moulding, casement window and concrete sill. Round-headed opening to centre bay, first floor with timber casement window and concrete sill. Round-headed opening to centre bay having spoked fanlight over timber panelled door. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window opening. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Gable-fronted chapel to south-east. Pitched slate roof having render copings and cross finial. Rubble sandstone battered walls. Round-headed openings with chamfered limestone voussoirs, sills and quarry glazed fixed windows. Round-headed opening to west having chamfered limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Limestone threshold to entrance. Altar to interior. Monument to south. Pair of square-profile monolith piers to south with double-leaf metal gates and rubble limestone boundary walls.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilbehy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_593 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilbehy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilbehy · Coill Bheithe

Area

1,003,598 m² (100.36 ha, 247.99 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyengland Upper, Ballyvockoge, Cragmore, Gorteennamrock, Graigues, Loughaun

Placenames

Kilbehy 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.