Boherbrack

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherbrack, from 208 m² to 178,694 m² (17.87 ha, 44.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Boherbrack 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.

• 28 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLRY SERVICES/SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2271

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ADJOINING DOMESTIC GARAGE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19420

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE044-028 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 18.5m N-S, 20m E-W This site is located at the W end of the vast expanse of moorland that lies on the N side of the valley of the Owenalondrig river, between the enclosed agricultural land to S and the central mountain ridge to N. Though unnoted on the 1st edition of the OS map and marked only as a sheep-fold on the 2nd edition, the site consists of a circular clochaun contained within a roughly circular, stone-walled enclosure, possibly a cashel. The entrance to the latter faces SE and consists of a passage, 1.5m wide and 3 to 4m long, which is defined on either side by upright slabs. The clochaun wall is 1.5m thick and .75m high and the interior is 3.5m in diameter. The entrance faces E. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 550. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE044-028001 Clochan
  Description

  KE044-028---- is located at the W end of the vast expanse of moorland that lies on the N side of the valley of the Owenalondrig river, between the enclosed agricultural land to S and the central mountain ridge to N. Though unnoted on the 1st edition of the OS map and marked only as a sheep-fold on the 2nd edition, the site consists of a circular clochaun contained within a roughly circular, stone-walled enclosure, possibly a cashel. The entrance to the latter faces SE and consists of a passage, 1.5m wide and 3 to 4m long, which is defined on either side by upright slabs. The clochaun wall is 1.5m thick and .75m high and the interior is 3.5m in diameter. The entrance faces E. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 550. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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 Boherbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Boherbrack · An Bóthar Breac

Area

1,898,862 m² (189.89 ha, 469.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kinard, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Kinard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinard electoral division: 330 people in 135 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Churchfield, Coumanare, Deerpark, Gowlane Beg, Gowlin

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Boherbrack 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.