Bohernaghty
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Bóthar na hOchtaí
- Area
- 123.8 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 3,520 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohernaghty, from 212 m² to 178,482 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Bohernaghty 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
25 Jan 2022Refused
construct a bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2229
29 Apr 2021Refused
construct a bungalow , septic tank percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21271
23 Feb 2021Conditional
construct an astro turf pitch with 3.0m high perimter fence and floodlights. Planning permission is also sought for alterations to previously granted shed under planning ref. 17247 along with all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 21107
16 Nov 2018Conditional
construct a bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18693
29 Mar 2018Conditional
construct the following , A new agricultural entrance to my lands along with all ancillary services and associated works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18193
24 May 2017Conditional
construct a walking track and associated boundaries, the removal of existing flood lights and the provision of new flood lights, the construction of a ball wall and storage shed along with all ancillary services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17247
16 May 2017N/a
construct a walking track and associated boundaries, the removal of existing flood lights and the provision of new flood lights, the construction of a ball wall and storage shed along with all ancillary services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17234
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 Bohernaghty.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohernaghty.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bohernaghty.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bohernaghty.
- 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 Bohernaghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Bohernaghty · Bóthar na hOchtaí
- Area
- 1,237,660 m² (123.77 ha, 305.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castletown electoral division: 835 people in 287 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafin, Churchfield, Churchtown, Danganroe, Knockacoller, Oldborris
- Placenames
- Bohernaghty 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.