Behy
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 79.4 ha
- 196 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 38,559 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Behy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Behy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- 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
- Ballyformoyle electoral division: 173 people in 72 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- 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.