# Behy, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 794,203 m² (79.42 ha, 196.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,559 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardcarn, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/ardcarn.md - Barony: Boyle - Electoral division: Ballyformoyle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42731 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190240 - Centre: latitude 54.015025, longitude -8.168612 (WGS 84) ## 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); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 685166: 85,774 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/685166.md - Parcel 689918: 77,020 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689918.md - Parcel 673223: 67,661 m² (6.77 ha, 16.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673223.md - Parcel 689922: 65,177 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689922.md - Parcel 673218: 61,898 m² (6.19 ha, 15.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673218.md - Parcel 689926: 61,811 m² (6.18 ha, 15.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689926.md - Parcel 689917: 52,303 m² (5.23 ha, 12.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689917.md - Parcel 642144: 49,314 m² (4.93 ha, 12.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/642144.md - Parcel 673217: 45,003 m² (4.5 ha, 11.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673217.md - Parcel 689916: 39,994 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689916.md - Parcel 689927: 38,559 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689927.md - Parcel 722779: 36,152 m² (3.62 ha, 8.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/722779.md - Parcel 673220: 25,064 m² (2.51 ha, 6.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673220.md - Parcel 673222: 22,889 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673222.md - Parcel 689925: 17,469 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689925.md - Parcel 720406: 7,858 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/720406.md - Parcel 671546: 7,251 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/671546.md - Parcel 2907870: 6,777 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2907870.md - Parcel 651549: 5,283 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651549.md - Parcel 689126: 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689126.md - Parcel 661248: 1,332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/661248.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Sept 2026, Roscommon County Council 2660451: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660451/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Behy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO003-063: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO003-063----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Behy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/behy-190240.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/behy-190240.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/behy-190240.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cartron-190487.md - Cleen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cleen.md - Doogary: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/doogary-191064.md - Fostragh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/fostragh.md - Tullyval: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tullyval.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/behy-190240 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/behy-190240