Behy

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 287 m² to 154,491 m² (15.45 ha, 38.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• 21 Oct 2021Refused

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of 2 no. wind turbines (turbine tip height of 150m, rotor diameter of 138m) with associated foundations and crane hardstand areas and all associated development including 1 no. substation control building, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast (80m height) and associated foundation, hardstand area and ancillary main crane hardstand area, 1,304m of new internal site service roads, underground electric cabling systems between turbines within the wind farm site, 3.75km of overground electric cabling system and 1.53km of underground electric cabling system between the wind farm site and connection point at existing 38 kV ESBN substation in Boyle, 1 no. new site access/entrance off the L-1248 local road at the western boundary to facilitate construction and access, 1 no. temporary construction site compound (750m2), 4 no. peat / spoil deposition areas for storage of excess excavated peat materials, associated surface water management system, tree felling to facilitate site development, temporary works on sections of the public road network along the turbine delivery route (including hedge or tree cutting, relocation of powerlines / poles, lampposts, signage and local road widening) and all associated site works (an NIS and an EIAR have been submitted in respect of the application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21595

• 26 May 2021N/a

  permission for development which will consist of the construction of 2 no. wind turbines (maximum turbine tip height 160m) with associated foundations and crane hardstand area and all associated development including 1 No. substation control building, 1 No. permanent meteorological mast (80m height) and associated foundation, hardstand area and ancillary main crane hardstand area, 1,304m of new internal site service roads, underground electric cabling systems between turbines within the wind farm site, 3.75km of overground electric cabling system and 1.53km of underground electric cabling system between the wind farm site and connection point at existing 38 kV ESBN substation in Boyle, 1 No. new site access/entrance off the L-1248 local road at the western boundary to facilitate construction and access, 1 No. temporary construction site compound (750m2, 4 No. peat / spoil deposition areas for storage of excess excavated peat materials, associated surface water management system, tree felling to facilitate site development, temporary works on sections of the public road network along the turbine delivery route (including hedge or tree cutting, relocation of powerlines / poles, lampposts, signage and local road widening) and all associated site works( a Natura Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of the application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21276

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

• RO009-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low E-W ridge. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 51m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1m), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 7.5m; D 0.3m-0.8m) SE-W-NW. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is truncated (L c. 30m) by a N-S field bank at E. 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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

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.

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 · An Bheithigh

Area

865,529 m² (86.55 ha, 213.88 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Breedoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Breedoge electoral division: 249 people in 97 households; 96% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore East Or Corbally, Ballymore West, Grange More, Granny, Leam, Tullaghan

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.