Boarmanshill
Boarmanshill is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Bhórman.
- Area
- 230 ha
- 568 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 18,172 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boarmanshill, from 710 m² to 268,484 m² (26.85 ha, 66.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Boarmanshill 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
8 Jun 2026Conditional
the wastewater treatment system installed on their site, and also to apply for Permission for the construction of a domestic garage and ancillary works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660637
16 Oct 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance & installation of a wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25341
3 Oct 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561013
29 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system, bored well, upgrading existing agricultural entrance to the site, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25296
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Glenstal Wood SAC 001432
- Special Area of Conservation: Clare Glen SAC 000930
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clare Glen 000930
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenstal Wood 001432
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boarmanshill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boarmanshill.
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 Boarmanshill, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1170 (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
No address of the register names Boarmanshill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Boarmanshill · Cnoc Bhórman
- Area
- 2,300,264 m² (230.03 ha, 568.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Glenstal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,240 people lived in 383 households in the Glenstal electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashroe, Cappanahanagh, Cappercullen, Garranbane, Puckane
- Placenames
- Boarmanshill 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.