Bohereen
Townland in the civil parish of St. Nicholas', barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Bóithrín
- Area
- 14.2 ha
- 35 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,269 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohereen, from 847 m² to 53,936 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Nov 2023Conditional
the construction of an extension to the rear of existing nursing home comprising 26 no. beds (total 45 bed rooms) with first floor office / staff accomodation over central portion of same. Demolish existing front entrance porch & construct new entrance porch with family room/ reception area. Construction of new store building, realign existing Southern boundary fence and construct screen wall to kitchen yard. Provide rainwater harvesting system and connection of foul service to existing public foul service and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23554
17 Aug 2022N/a
a new three-arm roundabout at the entrance to Ros Mor Housing Estate including a new retaining wall to maintain earthworks within available lands. An off-road shared pedestrian/cycle facility 3.0m wide along the eastern side of the R512 to connect the Ros Mor estate to the existing footway at the Willows housing estate. A new bus stop and shelter at the north side of the R512 to the west of the roundabout
Permission · Limerick County Council, 228015
24 Jan 2022Refused
extension of duration for 16/549 for alterations/refurbishments to existing nursing home to provide for special care unit/smoking area. Construct two storey extension at rear to provide for 45 bed rooms, kitchen, dining room, living space and a second phase to provide a further 28 bed rooms. Demolish existing store and construct new store and connection to the adjacent foul sewer
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 227002
5 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of an agricultural shed with a slatted tank and all associated site works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure(RPS 1638)
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211117
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 Bohereen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohereen.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1850, with single-bay single-storey porch to front (south) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with flat roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls, painted cement block walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills having some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and some replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings, with timber door to west elevation. Painted cement block boundary wall terminating in square-profile piers.
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 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_998 (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 Bohereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Bohereen · An Bóithrín
- Area
- 142,267 m² (14.23 ha, 35.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Nicholas', and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Limerick South Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Limerick South Rural electoral division: 2,215 people in 721 households; 82% of households own their home; 64% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Banemore, Bohereen, Crossagalla, Inchmore
- Placenames
- Bohereen 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.