# Behy, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tawnagh, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Bheithigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 818,001 m² (81.8 ha, 202.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,678 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tawnagh, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/tawnagh.md - Barony: Tirerrill - Electoral division: Riverstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/57324 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200172 - Centre: latitude 54.126526, longitude -8.422939 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Behy, from 105 m² to 130,588 m² (13.06 ha, 32.27 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3419954: 130,588 m² (13.06 ha, 32.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419954.md - Parcel 731688: 126,600 m² (12.66 ha, 31.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/731688.md - Parcel 730834: 112,462 m² (11.25 ha, 27.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730834.md - Parcel 762230: 91,982 m² (9.2 ha, 22.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762230.md - Parcel 731260: 82,211 m² (8.22 ha, 20.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/731260.md - Parcel 780284: 79,287 m² (7.93 ha, 19.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780284.md - Parcel 730192: 67,307 m² (6.73 ha, 16.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730192.md - Parcel 747748: 56,346 m² (5.63 ha, 13.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/747748.md - Parcel 762431: 49,263 m² (4.93 ha, 12.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762431.md - Parcel 5896029: 5,678 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5896029.md - Parcel 729531: 2,633 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729531.md - Parcel 751784: 2,361 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/751784.md - Parcel 775891: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/775891.md - Parcel 776258: 1,874 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/776258.md - Parcel 749359: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/749359.md - Parcel 5894937: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894937.md - Parcel 775576: 1,788 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/775576.md - Parcel 5896001: 190 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5896001.md - Parcel 5894940: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894940.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. - 12 Feb 2026, Sligo County Council 2660049: Conditional. Permission. to construct a dairy slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage tanks together with concrete aprons and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660049/0 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) - SL034-001001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-001001-. On the E side of a low rise skirted to the W by a stream. The remains consist of the NW corner (5.6m E-W; 2.6m N-S) of a tower now standing to two storeys, and a large block of masonry lying on the ground immediately to its SE. These are located towards the E end of a rectangular sod-covered platform (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) which may be the remains of a bawn. Immediately E of the platform are two 19th-century farm buildings which contain carved stones derived from the tower including a sheela-na-gig (SL034-001002-) and a pick-dressed quoin. The tower is built of roughly coursed limestone in a lime mortar; the walls are gently battered, but most of the quoins are missing. The ground floor had a window in its W wall but only its N side survives which contains part of a splayed gun loop. In the corner, at first-floor level, is a mural chamber the inside wall of which is gone. At this level was a large window embrasure in the N wall but only its W side survives. On the external face, 3m above present ground level, is a horizontal slit (0.8m x 0.25m) which may be an exit for a garderobe chute. A drawing by Grose (1791, vol. 1, 52) shows the tower much as it is today but with the fallen block then standing. Grose described it as 'a square tower' and noted that the castle had been used as a quarry during the building of a nearby house (see above). Traditionally known as a MacDonagh castle (Grose 1797, vol. 1, 52; McParlan 1802, 92; O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 236). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 - SL034-001002: Sheela-na-gig, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-001002-. Built into the inside wall of a farm building immediately E of Behy Castle (SL034-001001-). A rectangular punch-dressed limestone block (0.85m x 0.45m) which was probably originally a quoin stone in the adjacent castle. Carved in low relief at one end of the stone is a full figure sheela-na-gig (L 0.35m), now painted pink, whilst at the other end is an 'X' picked out in three lines of pick marks. (O'Shaughnessy and Weaver 1992, 8; McMahon and Roberts 2001, 117-18) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 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: at the centre of the townland of Behy, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1165, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1165.zip (ZIP). - 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/sligo/behy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/behy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/behy.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. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowkeel-200300.md - Cooperhill: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cooperhill.md - Drumfin: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumfin.md - Emlagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/emlagh-200690.md - Murillyroe: https://everytownland.com/sligo/murillyroe.md - Ogham: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ogham-201054.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/sligo/behy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/behy