Bohergoy Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Ballysax, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 146 ha
- 361 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,450 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohergoy Lower, from 577 m² to 554,946 m² (55.49 ha, 137.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bohergoy Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Jul 2025Conditional
for a revised site boundary previously granted under planning ref. 99/1350, a one storey domestic garage as constructed, a one storey fuel storage shed as constructed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560768
4 Jul 2025N/a
for a revised site boundary previously granted under planning ref. 99/1350, a one storey domestic garage as constructed, a one storey fuel storage shed as constructed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560751
17 Jun 2025Conditional
for Lean-to type Hayshed and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560671
5 Apr 2019Conditional
Agricultural shed to be used for fodder and livestock purposes, a separate cubicle cattle shed to be served by two slatted tanks. One slatted tank will be within the shed boundary while the other will be external. However there will be external agitation access to both tanks. Also a silage slab adjacent to the cubicle shed with a 2.7 metre high wall along its length. All associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19368
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 Bohergoy Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohergoy Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bohergoy Lower.
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 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_2542 (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 Bohergoy Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bohergoy Lower
- Area
- 1,460,012 m² (146 ha, 360.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballysax, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Ballysax West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballysax West electoral division: 1,233 people in 415 households; 80% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohergoy Upper, Eaglehill, Ironhills, Maddenstown Middle, Maddenstown South, Newtown
- Placenames
- Bohergoy Lower 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.