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County Roscommon

Behy Lough

Behy Lough covers 1 ha with 550 m of shore in County Roscommon, 3.6 km south of Cootehall.

Getting to the water

No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of this shore. That may be because the land around it is private, or only because nobody has mapped the way in. Nothing here tells the two apart, so this page says neither.

1 ha
of water
550 m
of shore
0
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
1 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
550 m around the outline
County
County Roscommon
Public access
No public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record

No openly licensed photograph of Behy Lough was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.

Where it is

The pin sits from the middle of the water, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Roscommon.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the middle of the water. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

No mapped car park within two kilometres has a walking route to this shore. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Behy Lough

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Behy Lough is in Cootehall, County Roscommon. The only point the map gives for this lake is the middle of the water, and no public way was found reaching its shore. Routes below stop where they can and say where that is.

Cootehall is the nearest settlement, 3.6 km south of the lake. Arriving in Cootehall is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Cleen (12808), 1.5 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Cleen 1.5 km
    bus 571
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Cootehall covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the middle of the water, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Behy Lough?
No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of the shore. That may mean the ground around it is private, or only that nobody has mapped the way in. This page does not say which, because it does not know.
How big is Behy Lough?
1 ha, with 550 m of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds, which is made of 2 records merged into one lake here.
Where can you park for Behy Lough?
The map records no car park within two kilometres that a walking route reaches. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.
How do you get to Behy Lough without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Cleen, 1.5 km from the middle of the water in a straight line, and bus 571 call there, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records, 2 of them merged here into one lake. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q33302099.
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.