Behy Beg

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy Beg, from 46 m² to 310,407 m² (31.04 ha, 76.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P1Agriculture
  Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  change of house type from that granted under P22/1107, including all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460250

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460232

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  Retention of existing dwelling house & garage, with upgrade to existing septic tank & percolation area. Including retention of existing access, boundaries & all other associated works/services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460036

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a detached dwelling house, garage, on-stie sewerage treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221107

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA031-052 Barrow - ring-barrow
  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.

• MA031-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating, improved pasture. Farm buildings stand immediately to SE. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map. It is depicted on the 1922 edition as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a double ring of hachuring, truncated at N−NE by a road. No visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 July 2018

• MA040-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise in gently undulating terrain, overlooking expanses of wet, boggy ground 50-100m to E and SE. There is a canalised stream, which coincides with the townland boundary, 15m to W. Broadly oval raised area (54m E−W; 46m N−S) defined by a bank, which is largely reduced to a scarp, outside which it is enclosed by a fosse with remnants of an external bank. The inner bank/scarp (Wth 4m at NW, 4.5m at E; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m at NW, 1.65m at E) has a pronounced external slope but retains only a very low internal lip. The broad fosse (Wth 4.5-5.5m; ext. D 1.2m at E, 1.4m at W, 0.75m at NW) is well defined. There are traces of a levelled outer bank on the outer edge of the fosse at SSW−N and at NE; this appears as a broad low rise (Wth 4-5m), which merges on its outer edge at W−N with the natural fall of ground. There are three broad causeways across the fosse: at SE (Wth 3.3m), SSW (10.3m) and N (4.5m). These are likely to be the result of relatively modern disturbance. The causeway at SSW opens towards a steep drop in exterior ground level, and the N causeway also faces a slope. It is possible that the original entrance may have been at the SE causeway, facing an area of level ground. The interior is level, but with a slight dip in ground level in the NW quadrant. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA040-001001-) in the rath. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees on the perimeter at the E. Field rushes grow in the fosse on the W arc. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 April 2020

• MA040-001001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA039-001). According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA040-001001-) in the rath interior. No details are known about its exact location or form. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_444 (ZIP).

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

Name

Behy Beg · An Bheithigh Bheag

Area

1,992,294 m² (199.23 ha, 492.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoremoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Ardnaree South Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardnaree South Rural electoral division: 3,096 people in 1,087 households; 81% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behy More, Breaghwy, Carrowcastle, Carrowreagh, Corimla South, Rathkip

Placenames

Behy Beg 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.