Behy

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 1,332 m² to 85,774 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 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.

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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission to renovate existing house to include alterations to elevations and to construct new side extension, to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660451

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 Behy.

Recorded monuments

• RO003-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated toward the bottom of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered but poached platform (diam. 33.5m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) E-S-NW, and a field bank elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO004-042----) is c. 120m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

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. Roscommon.

Name

Behy

Area

794,203 m² (79.42 ha, 196.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Ballyformoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

173 people lived in 72 households in the Ballyformoyle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Cleen, Doogary, Fostragh, Tullyval

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.