Bohergoy Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Ballysax, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 95.9 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,585 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohergoy Upper, from 156 m² to 145,821 m² (14.58 ha, 36.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Upper 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
16 Aug 2021Conditional
(a) New detached bungalow dwelling house; (b) Minor modifications to existing recessed site entrance; (c) New on-site domestic wastewater treatment system; (d) Landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211181
25 Aug 2020Conditional
Construction of a barn type building (262 sqm in area) to include storage areas and tack room, the building is to be located adjacent to existing stable yard, along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20962
4 Feb 2020Conditional
alterations to roof and extension to side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2079
25 Sept 2017Conditional
A single storey extension to rear of existing single storey semi-detached cottage, retention of roof window to front elevation and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171065
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- KD027-041 Enclosure
Description
In gently undulating well-drained pasture. Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 348-9) as the cropmark of a small penannular enclosure, open towards the SW. There was no visible surface trace in 1985 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 26 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bohergoy Upper.
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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bohergoy Upper
- Area
- 958,941 m² (95.89 ha, 236.96 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 Lower, Carn, Churchland West, Maddenstown Middle, Newtown, Sheshoon
- Placenames
- Bohergoy Upper 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.