Bofickil
Bofickil is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Both Mhicil.
- Area
- 170.5 ha
- 421 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 6,360 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bofickil, from 377 m² to 443,352 m² (44.34 ha, 109.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bofickil 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Nov 2025Application withdrawn
Construction of dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6624
24 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for works to an existing dwelling, consisting of the demolition of an existing single-storey side extension and front porch and the construction of a new single-storey side extension and alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6565
13 Oct 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Works to an existing dwelling, consisting of the demolition of an existing single-storey side extension and front porch and the construction of a new single-storey side extension and alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6171
9 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed
The demolition of an existing single-storey side extension and front porch and the construction of a new single-storey side extension and alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5852
14 Nov 2024Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, construction of new splayed vehicular entrance, closing off of existing vehicular entrance, modifications to existing roadside boundary, installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/623
5 Jun 2024Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, construction of new splayed vehicular entrance, closing off of existing vehicular entrance, modifications to existing roadside boundary, installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/292
17 May 2024Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, construction of new splayed vehicular entrance, closing off of existing vehicular entrance, modifications to existing roadside boundary, installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/252
16 Nov 2023Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/649
28 Jan 2011Conditional
(i) demolition of existing ruinous dwelling and storage building (ii) construction of dwelling house (iii) construction of detached studio, and (iv) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/43
16 Mar 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1340
13 Oct 2000Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6192
21 Jun 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3758
14 Dec 1999Conditional
1 no. dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6867
30 Sept 1999Refused
Dwelling & proprietary waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/5318
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
Recorded monuments
- CO102-016001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In rough grazing broken by rock outcrop, on break in NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (25.3m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by collapsed stone wall; original facing survives to W (H 1.3m; Wth 2m); rebuilt to SE. Souterrain (CO102-01602-) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO102-016002 Souterrain
Description
In centre of cashel (CO102-01601-). Backfilled some time ago (O'Brien 1970, 21). Noticeable collapse still evident. Two upright slabs may be part of entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO102-017 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
On bog-covered SW-facing slope of shallow valley, opening W to Coulagh Bay. Small wedge-shaped chamber open to W (L 2.5m; Wth 1.6m at W end, 1.3m at E); N and S sides each formed of one slab. Backstone inset at E end. Two displaced roof stones lie tilted within chamber. No indications of surrounding mound. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 34, Co. 49) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bofickil.
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 Bofickil, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Bofickil.
- 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 Bofickil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bofickil · Both Mhicil
- Area
- 1,705,141 m² (170.51 ha, 421.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcatherine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcatherine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 780 people lived in 322 households in the Kilcatherine electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crumpane, Eyeries, Faunkill and The Woods, Inches
- Placenames
- Bofickil 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.