Bobsgrove

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bobsgrove, from 231 m² to 109,388 m² (10.94 ha, 27.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Bobsgrove in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Bobsgrove.

Recorded monuments

• CV042-004 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Farren Connell, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1760, with mid-nineteenth century front elevation having off centre single-storey porch, substantial multiple-bay wing facing stableyard, returns and glazed conservatory to rear. Pitched slate roof to front block with oversailing eaves on timber brackets, wide oversailing verges extending over large gable chimneystacks with truss-motif bargeboard to east, smaller stacks over roof level. Limestone parapet to flat-roofed porch with eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof to wing and to single-storey west porch. Clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Brick chimneystacks with projecting capstones to gables and rear eaves of front block and to ridge of wing, many having square-profile clay pots, some with panelled motif. Cast-iron water tank to projection on rear wing. Roughcast rendered walls. One-over-one timber sash windows to front with convex horns, in asymmetrical arrangement to accommodate stair hall. Lucarne windows to rear with timber barge boards. Varying casement and timber sash windows of various sizes to rear. Limestone sills throughout. Timber panelled and glazed door to porch, inner double-leaf panelled doors with aproned sidelights flanked by pilasters with carved corbel brackets and cornice. Gothic Revival conservatory on concrete piers with pointed arch mullions. Interior having bolection mouldings, limestone flags, and heavily moulded cast-iron staircase. U-plan farmyard to west. Former walled garden to rear with rounded rubble stone walls, segmental arches having irregular voussoirs and red brick surrounds. Rubble stone boundary walls.

• Farren Connell, stables, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding complex, built c.1760, with additional single-storey outbuilding, two-bay two-storey garden building, and late-nineteenth century extensions. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles to main block and garden building, corrugated-iron to nineteenth-century outbuilding to west. Two red brick chimneystacks to north range, single rendered chimneystack to south range and to gable of garden building, cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick eaves course, random rubble walls with lime-washed roughcast render, and cast-iron tie plates. Round- and square-headed window openings to north and east elevations of main block with six-over-six timber sash windows with ogee horns, others having timber louvers. Semi-circular openings to first floor with single pane, half-dormer windows to west and south elevations with timber bargeboards, all with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors, some having timber lintels and dressed limestone surrounds. Integrated carriage arches with limestone thresholds. Timber-battened stall doors. Further ruined rubble stone outbuilding to west with limestone lintels and keystones. Octogonal-plan former water feature with cut limestone surround to courtyard. Rubble stone boundary walls abutting gabled ends.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bobsgrove.

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 Bobsgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Bobsgrove

Area

1,277,090 m² (127.71 ha, 315.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbride electoral division: 998 people in 338 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clontyduffy (Nugent), Crossrah, Enagh, Gneeve, Pollakeel, Ross (Co. Meath), Tonagh

Placenames

Bobsgrove 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.