Boyannagh
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Buíonach
- Area
- 188.3 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 26,013 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boyannagh, from 358 m² to 161,677 m² (16.17 ha, 39.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Boyannagh 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
12 May 2021Conditional
erect a Domestic Garage and Domestic Store interlinked by an open roofed area to the rear of his existing dwelling
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21101
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 Boyannagh.
Recorded monuments
- LE002-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the W-facing slope of a ridge. Overgrown circular area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a round-topped earth and stone bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.25m at SE to 0.9m at W; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.3m). The original entrance is not identified. The monument is bisected by an E-W lane and very little survives of the S portion. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE002-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the S-facing slope of a low ridge in a coniferous forest. Unplanted but overgrown oval area (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a round-topped, steep-sided earthen bank (H 0.55m at NE to 1m at SW) and an outer fosse suggested by an intermittent band of rushes. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE002-003 Bullaun stone
Description
On pasture with the E-W Bradóg River c. 100m to the N. There is a record from the 1940s of a limestone block (dims c. 0.65m x c. 0.7m) with one basin (diam. c. 0.35m) (SMR file), which cannot be located now, and its exact location was not known. It is probably associated with Tobar Patrick Well (DG110-005002-) at Dunmuckrum, Co. Donegal, c. 120m to the N (Lacy 1983, 303). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE002-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the summit of an E-W ridge. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (int. diam. 34m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by a round-topped, steep-sided, overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.95m; int. H 0.3m at W to 0.45m at N; ext. H 0.3m at W to 1m at N) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.15m). The original entrance is not identified, but the monument is truncated by a field bank at S. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest (Bing c. 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boyannagh.
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 moderately low, 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_1336 (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 Boyannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Boyannagh · Buíonach
- Area
- 1,883,086 m² (188.31 ha, 465.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Gubacreeny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gubacreeny electoral division: 803 people in 316 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardfarn (Co. Donegal), Cornaglah, Derryherk, Dunmuckrum (Co. Donegal), Lareen, Rathglass (Co. Donegal)
- Placenames
- Boyannagh 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.