Bohereen

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohereen, from 190 m² to 244,097 m² (24.41 ha, 60.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 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
• N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Jul 2026N/a

  the demolition of an existing previous administration building and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660810

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  demolition of an existing single-storey rear extension, construction of a new single-storey rear extension, relocation of vehicular entrance and new wastewater treatment system & percolation area

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561016

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  the development that will consist of the construction of a single-story SEN unit extension to the main school building to accommodate two general SEN classrooms, central activity space, offices, toilets, and storage facilities. Enclosed sensory gardens, a new plant room, and an extension to the existing gas compound are also proposed. Relocation of basketball court, additional car parking spaces and associated access road to the rear of the site and all other associated site works. The proposed development is in the curtilage of Protected Structures Donaghmore School (RPS No.1643) & Parochial House (RPS No.1642)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460950

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  the (a) construction of a vehicular entrance and driveway, (b) demolition of 2 existing outbuildings, (c) renovation of existing house, (d) construction of a two storey extension to both the side & to the front of existing dwelling house, (e) change of use of an existing outbuilding to residential use & linked into the extended renovated house, (f) installation of a new septic tank & percolation area together with (g) all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221205

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  1. Renovations and extensions to existing dwelling, comprising of sun room, en suite, attic storage room and attic study room and all associated site works. 2. Retention of conversion of garage area to television room. 3. Retention of private domestic garage. 4. Retention of site boundaries as constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22121

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1971

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 Bohereen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohereen.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, built in 1820, having two-bay nave elevations with two-bay transepts to south and two-bay sacristy addition to north. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with recessed plinth course. Roughcast render to north elevation. Pointed arch window openings having tooled stone sills and render hoodmouldings over. Stained glass windows throughout, that to the east with carved Y-tracery. Square-headed door openings having timber battened double-leaf doors. Holy water font recess to south elevation of nave and west elevation of transept having tooled limestone D-plan holy water fonts with carved Greek cross. Red and black quarry tiled lobby entrance to interior. Gallery to nave and transept supported on marble columns and accessed via timber winder stairs. Timber stations of the cross and holy water font. Marble altar table. Recent freestanding steel bell tower to east of church. Recent commemorative plaque to south-west of building. Rendered boundary walls terminating in square-profile piers with recent gates.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1880, with gabled central bay flanked by gabled projecting bays, having canted bay windows to ground floor. Single-bay gabled return with two-bay two-storey extension and single-bay single-storey lean to addition to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge crestings, lean-to slate roof to single-storey addition. Flat roof to west addition. Flat roofs with render cornices to bay windows. Red brick chimneystacks in facer bond. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render continuous sill course and plinth course. Simple vent tiles over plinth. Decorative render panel to front elevation, central bay. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, paired to first floor, front elevation. Windows to front elevation, first floor having render label mouldings. Segmental-headed window openings to two-storey west addition having replacement timber framed window. Pointed arch door opening with render panels over and having replacement uPVC, overlight and sidelights. Approached by tooled limestone step. Square-headed door opening to west having replacement uPVC door. Set in landscaped grounds with outbuilding to rear. Detached four-bay one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards. Coursed tooled limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds with replacement uPVC windows, single dormer window opening. Elliptical-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround having double-leaf timber battened door. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround with timber battened door. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls terminating in square-profile piers with pointed caps. Cast-iron double-leaf traffic, supported on circular-profile cast-iron piers to paired south entrances.

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 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.

No address of the register names Bohereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Bohereen · An Bóithrín

Area

411,317 m² (41.13 ha, 101.64 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Roxborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roxborough electoral division: 1,580 people in 542 households; 93% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banemore, Bohereen, Drombanny, Inchmore, Rathurd, Rathurd

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.