Boherard

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherard, from 258 m² to 242,420 m² (24.24 ha, 59.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Boherard 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct: A. New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2460608

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  construct A. New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460563

• 20 Sept 2024N/a

  A.Construct New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460547

• 13 Dec 2018Conditional

  extend an existing garage and to change its use to a family flat

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18744

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• LA022-026 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 27.5m) defined by a low scarp (H c. 1.3m). No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA022-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 110-1; S 74-5). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Boherard, 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

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

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.

No address of the register names Boherard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Boherard · An Bóthar Ard

Area

1,989,429 m² (198.94 ha, 491.6 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Cuffsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 119 households in the Cuffsborough electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolbally, Coolfin, Corraun, Cuffsborough, Friarsland, Springfield or Knockkyle

Placenames

Boherard 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.