Bohullion Lower

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohullion Lower, from 6 m² to 409,173 m² (40.92 ha, 101.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bohullion Lower 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.

• 8 Sept 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DRY AGRICULTURAL SHED ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661674

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560063

• 30 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SPLIT LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460984

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351837

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING STORAGE FACILITIES FOR HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL GOODS TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP AND STORE WITH ACCESS VIA APPROVED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251510

• 25 Aug 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251426

• 3 Mar 2020Conditional

  (A) EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND RELOCATED EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA GRANTED UNDER 05/70246, (B) A STORE FOR HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL GOODS TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP AND STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050256

• 13 Feb 2020N/a

  (A) EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND RELOCATED EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA GRANTED UNDER 05/70246, (B) A STORE FOR HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL GOODS TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP AND STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050152

• 25 Oct 2019Refused

  ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE SALES SHOWROOM AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951660

• 1 Jul 2019N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A STORE FOR HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL GOODS TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP AND STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (2) RETENTION OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND RETENTION OF RELOCATED EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA GRANTED UNDER 05/70246

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951009

• 1 Aug 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751226

• 17 Jan 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED WELL AND CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH RAISED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750035

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 Bohullion Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohullion Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Bohullion Distillery, distillery, 1730–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former distillery, built c. 1750, with large square-plan chimney tower to west and single-storey modern shed to east gable. Vaulted corrugated metal roof. Rubble stone walls with metal wall ties to chimney, northern elevation now opened up as hay barn. Square-headed window openings now mostly blocked up. Square-headed door openings to west elevation and to first floor of tower. Complex of detached outbuildings and remains of outbuildings to the north and the north-west. Single-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed window and door openings. Surviving rubble stone walls with red brick dressings to door and window openings. Site bounded by high random rubble walls on rectangular plan.

• Beech Park, house, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1845, with projecting gable-fronted porch to front and two-storey return and modern single-storey extensions to east and rear. Hipped slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered central chimneystacks with rendered coping and replacement rainwater goods; projecting eaves with smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with articulated smooth rendered block-and-start quoins, and smooth rendered recessed plinth course; decorative vertical slating to porch. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sash window, patent reveals and painted sills. Square-headed door opening to west of porch with moulded surrounds and timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with old distillery (40904701) to north.

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1954 (ZIP).

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 Bohullion Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bohullion Lower · Both Chuilinn Íochtarach

Area

2,127,149 m² (212.71 ha, 525.63 acres)

Civil parish

Burt, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Burt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burt electoral division: 1,333 people in 494 households; 78% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanket Nook, Bohullion Upper, Deer Park West, Gortlush, Grange, Keshends, Mulleny, Tonyhabboc

Placenames

Bohullion Lower 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.