Boyagh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boyagh, from 458 m² to 521,931 m² (52.19 ha, 128.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Boyagh 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.

• 19 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED / HOBBY ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660903

• 1 Feb 2024Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450037

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851693

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (2) RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME AND RELOCATION OF SAID MOBILE HOME

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751330

• 28 Apr 2017Unconditional

  COMPLETION OF EXTENTION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE. THE EXTENSION SHALL COMPRISE OF A SELF CONTAINED ANNEX AND ANCILLARY STORAGE SPACE AND SHALL CONNECT INTO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE SERVING EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. THE WORKS SHALL INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1750629

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 Boyagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boyagh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, and with smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystacks to the gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the west end of the front elevation (north) at ground floor level. Central square-headed doorway with battened timber door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north-west of Lifford. Garden to front (north) enclosed by smooth rendered boundary walls. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the east gable end.

• Lisieux, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic level, built c. 1910, having modern single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to the south gable end, c. 1990. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with exposed rafter ends, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboard to the north gable end. Pitched natural slate roofs to dormer openings having terracotta ridges tiles and decorative wavy timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with raised cement render block quoins to the corners of the front elevation (east). Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, and with three-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, and plain overlight. Set back from road in mature site in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford. Gateway to the north having a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having hooped wrought-iron gates. Detached single-storey outbuilding to site having pitched natural slate roof, cement rendered walls and square-headed openings.

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 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_1957 (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 Boyagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Boyagh

Area

987,829 m² (98.78 ha, 244.1 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmore, Creaghadoos, Newrow, Porthall, Swilly, Tironeill

Placenames

Boyagh 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.