Bohard

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohard, from 26 m² to 266,970 m² (26.7 ha, 65.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Bohard 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.

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new slatted livestock house. Proposed livestock house to incorporate easy feed & underground slatted slurry tank with external agitation, crush, straw bedded calving/calf area & ancillary concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460372

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 Bohard.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level damp pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now evident as sub-circular area (36m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by levelled earthen bank (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2m) with an external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 2.2m). A field boundary runs across N side of enclosure, crossing enclosing element at WNW and NE. On N side of boundary fosse has recently been deepened as part of field drainage works. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope overlooking river valley. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now covered by dense overgrowth. However, as far as could be ascertained it is enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) with an external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1.8m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Site depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map has been partially levelled. It is now evident as circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.55m), with an external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 5m) NW->NE and E->SW, but a field boundary runs along line of fosse SW->NW. Interior is level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level marshy pasture. Circular area (diam. 37m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.35m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 2m). Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-109 Earthwork
  Description

  In level pasture 200m NE of the townland boundary with Ahaveheen. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular enclosure from aerial photographs taken by the ASI on 04/03/2006. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached ASI oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house built c. 1820, having recent porch to front (south-east). Later gable-fronted projecting bay to rear (north-west), having recent addition with connective corridor to side (south-west). Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks and gable coping to side (south-west). Pitched slate roof to gable-fronted bay. Roughcast rendered wall to front elevation with rendered plinth and platbands. Rendered walls elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, sills and replacement uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed door openings having uPVC doors. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east of house having pitched slate roof with rendered gable copings and white-washed rubble stone walls. Camber-headed carriage way opening with tooled limestone voussoirs and recent corrugated-iron door. Recent outbuildings to east and two-bay single-storey barrel-vaulted outbuilding to north. Located within own grounds, having rendered rubble stone enclosing walls with square and rectangular profile piers having rendered and rubble stone coping supporting single and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Bohard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Bohard · An Bhoth Ard

Area

1,753,079 m² (175.31 ha, 433.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Kilmeedy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

368 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmeedy electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahaveheen, Cloonpasteen, Drominacreen, Gortnagluggin, Tulligmacthomas

Placenames

Bohard 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.