Boarheeny
Boarheeny is a townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Na Bóithríní.
- Area
- 42.2 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 82,856 m² (8.29 ha, 20.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boarheeny, from 5,018 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) to 126,929 m² (12.69 ha, 31.36 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 Boarheeny 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
No planning application touches the townland of Boarheeny in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Boarheeny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boarheeny.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1930, having full-height extension to east elevation. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor, front (north) and west elevations, pebbledashed rendered walls to first floor, rear (south) and east elevations, having render plinth course, quoins and stringcourse. Paired round-headed openings to ground floor, north and west elevations with concrete sills, render and pebbledash hoodmouldings and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired square-headed openings to first floor, north and west elevations having render surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed opening to first floor, north elevation with render surround, bipartite timber sliding sash windows and spoked fanlight. Paired square-headed openings to south elevation having concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to east elevation with concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Entrance comprising camber-headed opening to north elevation with render hoodmoulding supported by render pilasters, flanking timber panelled door having sidelights and overlight. Rendered step to entrance. Square-headed opening to first floor, extension to east elevation, with render surround and sill, and double-leaf timber battened door. Square-profile piers having render caps, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates to north of house, with rendered boundary walls having pebbledashed panels.
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 Boarheeny, about 1 in 5 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 Boarheeny.
- 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
No address of the register names Boarheeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Boarheeny · Na Bóithríní
- Area
- 421,606 m² (42.16 ha, 104.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Templebredon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 588 people lived in 197 households in the Templebredon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohernagraga, Castlecluggin, Knockballyfookeen, Maelra, Milltown, Newtown
- Placenames
- Boarheeny 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.