Bonaghmore
Bonaghmore is a townland in the civil parish of Rathangan, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 62.7 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 11,249 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bonaghmore, from 3,203 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 408,991 m² (40.9 ha, 101.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bonaghmore 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
6 Sept 2021Conditional
for the development of 1. construction of new single storey dwelling with access via existing entrance and driveway to applicant's family dwelling, 2. wastewater treatment system and percolation area and 3. all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211269
27 Jan 2017Conditional
The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bonaghmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bonaghmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bonaghmore, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2394 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Bonaghmore, Rathangan5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Bonaghmore
- Area
- 626,665 m² (62.67 ha, 154.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathangan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Rathangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,122 people lived in 1,093 households in the Rathangan electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherkill, Kilmoney North, Rathangan, Rathangan Demesne
- Placenames
- Bonaghmore 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.