# Bofara, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Both Bharrtha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 533,524 m² (53.35 ha, 131.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,304 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghagower, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/aghagower.md - Barony: Murrisk - Electoral division: Knappagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37343 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150404 - Centre: latitude 53.767889, longitude -9.571003 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bofara, from 69 m² to 234,083 m² (23.41 ha, 57.84 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 890965: 234,083 m² (23.41 ha, 57.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890965.md - Parcel 872789: 80,031 m² (8 ha, 19.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872789.md - Parcel 1003217: 75,719 m² (7.57 ha, 18.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003217.md - Parcel 921669: 26,710 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921669.md - Parcel 1012166: 24,773 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012166.md - Parcel 898995: 22,495 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898995.md - Parcel 895359: 9,552 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895359.md - Parcel 977284: 8,510 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977284.md - Parcel 932739: 7,997 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932739.md - Parcel 4565711: 7,410 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4565711.md - Parcel 953329: 6,304 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953329.md - Parcel 4565712: 5,265 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4565712.md - Parcel 951261: 4,745 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/951261.md - Parcel 949752: 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949752.md - Parcel 2719807: 3,859 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2719807.md - Parcel 4056445: 3,595 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4056445.md - Parcel 4654113: 3,107 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4654113.md - Parcel 919511: 2,961 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919511.md - Parcel 6080848: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080848.md - Parcel 6041734: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6041734.md - Parcel 6080851: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080851.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Aug 2018, Mayo County Council 18593: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18593/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Brackloon Woods SAC, site code 000471, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000471 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knappagh Woods, site code 001520 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brackloon Woods, site code 000471 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bofara. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bofara. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_191.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bofara.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bofara.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bofara.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bofara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Brackloon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brackloon-150440.md - Cloonagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonagh-150900.md - Laghloon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/laghloon.md - Tawnynameeltoge or Midgefield: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnynameeltoge-or-midgefield.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bofara - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/bofara