Boughil

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boughil, from 138 m² to 835,115 m² (83.51 ha, 206.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Boughil 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.

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  for the erection of two storey dwellinghouse & sewerage treatment plant & with tertiary phase & percolation area & all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360574

• 9 Aug 2022Refused

  for the erection of dwelling house with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 254.00 sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260806

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 Boughil.

Recorded monuments

• GA047-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SW-facing slope of a ridge overlooking extensive bogland to N. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boughil.

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

At the centre of the townland of Boughil, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boughil.

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.

No address of the register names Boughil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Boughil · An Buachaill

Area

1,751,782 m² (175.18 ha, 432.87 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

229 people lived in 76 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher North, Corracoolia, Derreen, Gortananny, Muckanagh South, Trihill East

Placenames

Boughil 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.