Bohammer
Townland in the civil parish of Balgriffin, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Both Umair
- Area
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 16,912 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohammer, from 4,021 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) to 236,676 m² (23.67 ha, 58.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 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
14 Feb 2025Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of:
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0046/S3
23 Dec 2021Grant permission
The removal of non-historic timber pergola to the south of the main ho
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0707
17 Nov 2021Refuse permission
New entrance gate as sell as the demolition of 1 no. existing garden s
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0616
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 Bohammer.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohammer.
Architectural heritage
- Emsworth, country house, 1790–1800 · National interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, 1794, with pedimented three-bay two-storey central bay flanked by single-bay, single-storey, overlapping wings. Fanlighted doorway under porch of engaged Doric columns and entablature. Ground floor centre windows and windows of wings set in arched recesses. Coach house and stable yard to rear. The only one of James Gandon's villas to survive intact. Drawing for Emsworth initialled 'J.G. March 94' and inscribed ' Erected for J. Woodmason Esqr. Stemworth' is in National Library, Dublin.
- Bohomer, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1830, with return to rear. Central projecting Doric entrance porch to east elevation, c.1840. uPVC conservatory to south elevation, c.1990.ROOF: Hidden behind parapet wall with two nap rendered chimney stacks at gable ends. WALLS: Nap rendered with a nap rendered moulded cornice and quoins. uPVC conservatory, c.1990, to right hand side elevation. OPENINGS: Squareheaded windows with nap rendered moulded architraves, stone cills and 6/6 timber sash windows. Projecting entrance porch with timber flat panels and glazing to sides and quarter engaged, nap rendered Doric columns
- Bohomer, gate lodge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gable-fronted gate lodge, c.1830. Single-bay extension and single-bay recessed entrance porch to west, c.1970.ROOF: Double pitched slate roof with a nap rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Nap rendered with a moulded string course. OPENINGS: Segmental headed; recessed panels to openings. Square headed diamond timber casement windows and a timber door.
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
- About 1 in 20 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_3276 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bohammer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Bohammer · Both Umair
- Area
- 561,075 m² (56.11 ha, 138.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balgriffin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Balgriffin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balgriffin electoral division: 5,544 people in 1,238 households; 55% of households own their home; 86% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacartle, Baskin, Kinsaley, Middletown, Saintdoolaghs, Springhill
- Placenames
- Bohammer 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.