Bohogerawer
Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Bhothóg Ramhar
- Area
- 65.4 ha
- 162 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohogerawer, from 68 m² to 123,186 m² (12.32 ha, 30.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bohogerawer 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
17 Jul 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: permenent relocation of the treated effluent discharge point approved under P21/859. the discharge point to be relocated 350m upstream from its current location
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25280
4 Jul 2023Conditional
Laying of a 150mm diameter Underground Discharge Pipe, 5.2km in length, containing fully-treated effluent from Existing Factory at Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Existing Fully-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun and final discharge pipe to the Dalgan River located at Cloonbullig. The proposed discharge pipe passes along the public road through the townlands of Knockaunacat, Erriff, Derrymore, Bohogerawer, Gorteen, Hazelhill, Cloonbullig and Drumbaun together with all ancillary site works and services at the above addresses. The proposed pipe shall replace the transporting of the fully-treated effluent from Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Full-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun by Tanker Trucks as per granted under Planning permission P21/869.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360259
6 Mar 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20168
11 May 2018Conditional
RETAIN GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18339
28 Jul 2017Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLING HOUSE AS GRANTED UNDER P96/1238, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSION AND ALTER ELEVATIONS, AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17610
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 Bohogerawer.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohogerawer.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bohogerawer.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_788 (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 Bohogerawer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bohogerawer · An Bhothóg Ramhar
- Area
- 654,325 m² (65.43 ha, 161.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bekan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Bekan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bekan electoral division: 776 people in 281 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracklaghboy, Derrymore, Erriff, Island, Knockroe
- Placenames
- Bohogerawer 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.