# Boraheen, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killyon, barony of Moyfenrath Upper, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 461,221 m² (46.12 ha, 113.97 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,322 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killyon, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/killyon.md - Barony: Moyfenrath Upper - Electoral division: Killyon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 595 people lived in 197 households in the Killyon electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39109 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160276 - Centre: latitude 53.481221, longitude -6.977106 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boraheen, from 159 m² to 168,787 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 224006: 168,787 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/224006.md - Parcel 191988: 90,914 m² (9.09 ha, 22.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191988.md - Parcel 164992: 82,542 m² (8.25 ha, 20.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/164992.md - Parcel 209668: 64,425 m² (6.44 ha, 15.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209668.md - Parcel 174212: 7,258 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/174212.md - Parcel 174535: 5,256 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/174535.md - Parcel 3109327: 5,224 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3109327.md - Parcel 185691: 5,025 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/185691.md - Parcel 214132: 3,618 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/214132.md - Parcel 2517957: 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2517957.md - Parcel 3109362: 1,932 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3109362.md - Parcel 188272: 1,680 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/188272.md - Parcel 5904271: 642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904271.md - Parcel 5904392: 602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904392.md - Parcel 142183: 535 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/142183.md - Parcel 215378: 159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/215378.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 21 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 15 May 2025, Meath County Council 2560485: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new walking track around existing playing pitch and to include the installation of 6m high light columns and 1.2m high perimeter fencing to proposed walking track and all associated ancillary site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560485/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boraheen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boraheen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Mary's Catholic Chapel, church/chapel, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14404104, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME®no=14404104. Detached T-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic chapel, with four-bays to side elevation, built c.1820, now disused. Two-bays to nave, leading to single-bay transepts and single-bay chancel to south. Pitched slate roof, limestone dressing to door openings and altered windows openings. Interior altered to accommodate use as hall c.1930. Roughly dressed rubble limestone three-stage bell-tower to north-west corner, with slate roof, brick dressings to openings, and limestone sills to window openings. ## 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 Boraheen, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boraheen. - 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/meath/boraheen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/boraheen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/boraheen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Boraheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballina: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballina.md - Ballyadams: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyadams.md - Drummond: https://everytownland.com/meath/drummond.md - Killyon: https://everytownland.com/meath/killyon.md - Newtown or Cloneen: https://everytownland.com/meath/newtown-or-cloneen.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/meath/boraheen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/boraheen