Boherduff
Boherduff is a townland in the civil parish of Caherelly, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Bóthar Dubh.
- Area
- 66.6 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,999 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherduff, from 618 m² to 111,138 m² (11.11 ha, 27.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Boherduff 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
4 Sept 2026N/a
the erection of a Milk Silo and associated development works on existing farmyard
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661023
10 Jul 2026Conditional
extension to dwelling and relocation of existing entrance and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660790
4 Mar 2026Conditional
minor external alterations and modifications to previously permitted dwelling (Ref. 13/53), including: (a) Relocation and installation of Velux Roof Windows, (b) Replacement of sections of approved natural stone finish with plaster finish to selected elevations, (c) Retention of domestic shed as constructed, (d) Retention of attached open-sided timber pergola structure located within the inner corner of the L-shaped dwelling, (e) Retention of entrance arrangement as constructed, (f) Relocation of approved percolation area, (g) All associated site development works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660237
25 Nov 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. Ref. No. of Outline Permission 22/64
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561234
10 Jul 2025Conditional
a rooflight to the front of existing dwelling and a detached garage as constructed and all ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560686
3 Feb 2022Conditional
alterations and extension to dwelling including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22113
24 Jan 2022Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2264
24 Jan 2020Conditional
the installation of new agricultural entrance and passageways and for the construction of a cubicle shed, milking parlour, silage slab, dairy & slatted collection yards along with modification to existing slatted shed at existing farmyard and all associated development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2049
20 Jun 2017Conditional
to install a prefabricated unit for use as a classroom associated with the existing school, together with ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17568
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 Boherduff.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-195 Enclosure
Description
On low-lying improved, pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses and to the immediate E of the townland boundary with Gortboy. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 167: AP 4/3693). Monument is visible as the faint trace of a rectangular-shaped earthwork which is defined by a field boundary to W and N, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 167. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 September 2020
- LI023-206 Enclosure
Description
In improved wet pasture, 20m E of the townland boundary with Gortboy and 240m E of a watercourse. Ring-barrow (LI023-207----) 125m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 140: AP 4/3658). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 140. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 September
- LI023-207 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In improved wet pasture, to the immediate N of a townland boundary with Caherelly West and 115m W of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI023-206----) 125m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 141: AP 4/3658). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 141. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 September
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boherduff.
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 Boherduff, about 1 in 10 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 Boherduff.
- 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 Boherduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Boherduff · An Bóthar Dubh
- Area
- 666,332 m² (66.63 ha, 164.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherelly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 388 people lived in 117 households in the Caherelly electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybricken East, Ballybricken South, Caherelly East, Caherelly West, Gortboy
- Placenames
- Boherduff 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.