# Boughil, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Killian, Co. Galway; in Irish An Buachaill.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,751,782 m² (175.18 ha, 432.87 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,184 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Taghboy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/taghboy.md
- Barony: Killian
- Electoral division: Taghboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20582
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60625
- Centre: latitude 53.484403, longitude -8.303825 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boughil, from 138 m² to 835,115 m² (83.51 ha, 206.36 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2016400: 835,115 m² (83.51 ha, 206.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016400.md
- Parcel 1936143: 43,061 m² (4.31 ha, 10.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936143.md
- Parcel 2016399: 41,199 m² (4.12 ha, 10.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016399.md
- Parcel 1936126: 39,177 m² (3.92 ha, 9.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936126.md
- Parcel 1936232: 38,119 m² (3.81 ha, 9.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936232.md
- Parcel 1936216: 37,273 m² (3.73 ha, 9.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936216.md
- Parcel 2016279: 36,618 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016279.md
- Parcel 1936233: 35,896 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936233.md
- Parcel 1936214: 25,493 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936214.md
- Parcel 1936125: 24,628 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936125.md
- Parcel 1936142: 24,280 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936142.md
- Parcel 2910965: 22,121 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2910965.md
- Parcel 2016302: 21,607 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016302.md
- Parcel 2016277: 20,859 m² (2.09 ha, 5.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016277.md
- Parcel 1936213: 19,709 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936213.md
- Parcel 1936218: 18,639 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936218.md
- Parcel 2016202: 18,276 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016202.md
- Parcel 2016278: 15,690 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016278.md
- Parcel 2112258: 14,453 m² (1.45 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112258.md
- Parcel 2112261: 14,025 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112261.md
- Parcel 1936144: 12,862 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936144.md
- Parcel 4457947: 11,561 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457947.md
- Parcel 2016402: 11,394 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016402.md
- Parcel 2016285: 10,859 m² (1.09 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016285.md
- Parcel 1936217: 10,485 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936217.md
- Parcel 1936230: 10,246 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936230.md
- Parcel 6032503: 9,613 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6032503.md
- Parcel 2016301: 9,420 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016301.md
- Parcel 2016280: 8,712 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016280.md
- Parcel 6132209: 8,495 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132209.md
- Parcel 2016397: 8,211 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016397.md
- Parcel 2016284: 8,093 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016284.md
- Parcel 2016287: 8,059 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016287.md
- Parcel 1936141: 7,904 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936141.md
- Parcel 2016396: 7,756 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016396.md
- Parcel 1936134: 7,638 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936134.md
- Parcel 1936231: 7,527 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936231.md
- Parcel 1936220: 7,468 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936220.md
- Parcel 2016286: 7,344 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016286.md
- Parcel 2016276: 7,283 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016276.md
- Parcel 1936219: 7,177 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936219.md
- Parcel 1936140: 7,164 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936140.md
- Parcel 1936133: 6,917 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936133.md
- Parcel 2016401: 6,760 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016401.md
- Parcel 1936229: 6,668 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936229.md
- Parcel 2016281: 6,545 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016281.md
- Parcel 2016398: 6,522 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016398.md
- Parcel 1936132: 6,355 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936132.md
- Parcel 5218925: 6,267 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218925.md
- Parcel 2016298: 6,184 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016298.md
- Parcel 2016405: 6,181 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016405.md
- Parcel 2016299: 6,180 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016299.md
- Parcel 2016403: 6,156 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016403.md
- Parcel 2016404: 6,070 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016404.md
- Parcel 2016282: 6,044 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016282.md
- Parcel 1936128: 5,511 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936128.md
- Parcel 1936127: 5,091 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936127.md
- Parcel 2016292: 5,085 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016292.md
- Parcel 6132231: 4,938 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132231.md
- Parcel 1936136: 4,937 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936136.md
- Parcel 2016283: 4,813 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016283.md
- Parcel 2016300: 4,749 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016300.md
- Parcel 2373845: 4,669 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373845.md
- Parcel 1936135: 4,639 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936135.md
- Parcel 2373844: 4,359 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373844.md
- Parcel 1936137: 4,341 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936137.md
- Parcel 2016201: 4,178 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016201.md
- Parcel 2374326: 4,150 m² (0.41 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374326.md
- Parcel 2016203: 3,957 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016203.md
- Parcel 2016293: 3,824 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016293.md
- Parcel 2016294: 3,737 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016294.md
- Parcel 1936131: 3,658 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936131.md
- Parcel 1936225: 3,614 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936225.md
- Parcel 1936221: 3,530 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936221.md
- Parcel 2016296: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016296.md
- Parcel 2016288: 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016288.md
- Parcel 1936130: 3,001 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936130.md
- Parcel 2016297: 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016297.md
- Parcel 2373843: 2,928 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373843.md
- Parcel 5218936: 2,848 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218936.md
- Parcel 1936129: 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936129.md
- Parcel 5214246: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214246.md
- Parcel 1936228: 2,286 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936228.md
- Parcel 2016291: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016291.md
- Parcel 1936227: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936227.md
- Parcel 6132201: 1,656 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132201.md
- Parcel 2373846: 1,247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373846.md
- Parcel 1936138: 1,159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936138.md
- Parcel 1936145: 1,021 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936145.md
- Parcel 1936226: 998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936226.md
- Parcel 1936224: 961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936224.md
- Parcel 2016295: 955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016295.md
- Parcel 2016395: 941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016395.md
- Parcel 2016289: 856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016289.md
- Parcel 2016290: 706 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016290.md
- Parcel 1936139: 573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936139.md
- Parcel 1936215: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936215.md
- Parcel 1936222: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936222.md
- Parcel 1936223: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936223.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 29 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360574: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the erection of two storey dwellinghouse & sewerage treatment plant & with tertiary phase & percolation area & all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360574/0
- 9 Aug 2022, Galway County Council 2260806: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260806/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boughil.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA047-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA047-012----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/boughil.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/boughil.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/boughil.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Boughil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinvoher North: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinvoher-north.md
- Corracoolia: https://everytownland.com/galway/corracoolia.md
- Derreen: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreen-61735.md
- Gortananny: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortananny.md
- Muckanagh South: https://everytownland.com/galway/muckanagh-south.md
- Trihill East: https://everytownland.com/galway/trihill-east.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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