Bofara

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bofara, from 69 m² to 234,083 m² (23.41 ha, 57.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Bofara 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.

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH A NEW TERTIARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING EXTENSION OF SITE BOUNDARIES AT THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18593

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Brackloon Woods SAC 000471
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knappagh Woods 001520
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brackloon Woods 000471

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bofara.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bofara.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bofara, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_191 (ZIP).

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 Bofara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bofara · Both Bharrtha

Area

533,524 m² (53.35 ha, 131.84 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Knappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

817 people lived in 299 households in the Knappagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Cloonagh, Laghloon, Tawnynameeltoge or Midgefield

Placenames

Bofara 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.