Behernagh Upper
Behernagh Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Beithearnach Uachtarach.
Parcel 2270735
- Area
- 4,737 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Behernagh Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 75.5 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 4,613 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behernagh Upper, from 1,282 m² to 425,644 m² (42.56 ha, 105.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Behernagh Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
to construct a Cubicle House with slatted tanks, straw storage shed and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1399
1 Feb 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4201
22 Dec 2020Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling house, a domestic garage, install a waste water treatment system, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6957
14 Aug 2019Conditional
Construct a two storey extension to west of dwellinghouse, single storey porch extension to the east of dwellinghouse, minor changes to east and north elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6033
28 Mar 2019Incompleted application
To construct a two storey extension to west of existing dwelling house, minor changes to East and North elevations and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4760
5 Feb 2019Incompleted application
To construct a two storey extension to west of existing dwelling house, minor changes to East and North elevations and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4236
22 Dec 2011Conditional
Construction of a dairy farm including the provision of new milking parlour with calving boxes, cubicle houses, calf house, silage slabs, straw shed and all ancillary roads, effluent tanks, manure pits including the provision of new agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6685
7 Dec 2011Incompleted application
Construction of a dairy farm including the provision of new milking parlour, cubicle houses, calf house, silage slabs, straw shed and all ancillary roads, effluent tanks, manure pits including the provision of new agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6550
22 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and treatment unit and installation of treatment unit to serve existing dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10841
30 Mar 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2070
11 Apr 2003Withdrawn
Construction of free range poultry house and office
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1762
23 Jan 2003New application
Construction of free range poultry house and office
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/201
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Behernagh Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Behernagh Upper.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Behernagh Upper, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Behernagh Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Behernagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Behernagh Upper · Beithearnach Uachtarach
- Area
- 755,020 m² (75.5 ha, 186.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kildinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 681 people lived in 211 households in the Kildinan electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Behernagh Lower, Bridestown, Glanreagh, Kildinan, Portduff, Shanbally
- Placenames
- Behernagh Upper 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.