Behy

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 1,473 m² to 9,136,316 m² (913.63 ha, 2,257.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Behy 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.

• 14 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17567

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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Benaderreen Cliffs 000467
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500

Recorded monuments

• MA006-002001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated along the indented coastline of N Mayo in an area of hilly bog land and coarse grazing. The view from the site along the coast is excellent. A rectangular NW facing headland flanked by steep cliffs is defended by a series of three earthen banks and two ditches, now much defaced. The site measures 35m long by 18m wide. The banks average 1.9m wide and only 0.35m above ground level. They are round topped and the intervening ditches average 1.1m wide. The inner face of the innermost bank has been reduced to a scarp, and the defences are only 7m long. A modern path runs along the NE cliff edge across an artificial causeway. This is the only indication of an original entrance. The defences are partly obscured by vegetation. The interior is level. A 1.5m deep natural cleft, 30m long and 1m wide runs along the NW edge. Otherwise the interior is featureless. Traces of an earthen bank running along the cliff edge can be seen outside the site. Some undulations in the ground immediately to the S-E of the defences may be the remains of more earthworks (MA006-002002-), but besides possible traces of a hut-site (MA006-002003-) near the path, no features are clearly visible. The narrowest part of the neck of the headland lies 6m outside the defences, suggesting some erosion has taken place along this coastline since the fortifications were built. This site was not included in Westropp in his list of promontory forts and is not marked on any of the OS maps. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA006-002002 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA006-002003 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA006-003 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA006-013 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Behy, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Behy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Behy · An Bheithigh

Area

10,399,218 m² (1,039.92 ha, 2,569.7 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Beldergmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

150 people lived in 58 households in the Beldergmore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 5% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Conaghra, Glenglassera, Glenulra, Inagh, Lugnalettin, Rathavisteen, Sralagagh West

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Behy 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.