Boughilbo
Boughilbo is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Buachaill Bó.
- Area
- 204.5 ha
- 505 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 5,962 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boughilbo, from 157 m² to 212,326 m² (21.23 ha, 52.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Boughilbo 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
14 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of machinery shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21478
24 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of 2 no. new entrances and access road to existing forestry plantations on the site of existing entrances
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20718
18 Dec 2017Conditional
(1) the construction of single storey dwelling house, (2) the construction of a domestic garage, (3) the installation of a wastewater treatment and disposal system, (4) entrance, driveway and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171196
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- LI019-176 Ringfort - rath
Description
In reclaimed pasture, on steep SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boughilbo.
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 Boughilbo, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Boughilbo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Boughilbo · Buachaill Bó
- Area
- 2,045,000 m² (204.5 ha, 505.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydoorlis, Cahernagh, Corbally, Dooncaha, Glendiheen, Glensharrold, Grouselodge
- Placenames
- Boughilbo 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.