Boherboy
Boherboy is a townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 128.1 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherboy, from 51 m² to 565,476 m² (56.55 ha, 139.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Coogyulla Cross Cluster, Clare · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Feb 2024Conditional
of 1. the ensuites built onto the eastern gable of the dwelling; 2 the detached garage and boiler house; 3. the detached games room and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2450
16 Mar 2021Conditional
to a) RETAIN fenestration changes and dormer windows to house No's 7 & 8, b) RETAIN front extension to house No.9, C) RETAIN conversion and extension of cottage No.10 as a 2 bedroom self-contained short term holiday rental unit together with all ancillary site development works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 21235
6 Jan 2021Conditional
of the following a) the side and rear extensions to the existing house as constructed b) CHANGE OF USE from an existing house to commercial that allows for short-term accommodation c) the wastewater treatment system and polishing filter d) modifications to the site entrance, front boundary walls and internal roads along with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 214
5 Mar 2020Conditional
to build a new storage shed and carport connecting onto the rear of the existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20156
21 Jun 2018Conditional
to build a dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system and all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18500
14 Jul 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of a new private dwelling house with garage, associated sewerage treatment system and new private entrance
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17543
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boherboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boherboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Boherboy, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boherboy.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boherboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Boherboy
- Area
- 1,280,728 m² (128.07 ha, 316.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killilagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Killilagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 816 people lived in 245 households in the Killilagh electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughavinna, Carnaun, Carrowduff, Carrowmanagh North, Coogyulla, Cronagort East, Knocknaskeagh, Teergonean
- Placenames
- Boherboy 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.