# Boughill, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Bachaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 663,796 m² (66.38 ha, 164.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,299 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Killeevan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40151 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170188 - Centre: latitude 54.186832, longitude -7.153434 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boughill, from 490 m² to 141,978 m² (14.2 ha, 35.08 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 331919: 141,978 m² (14.2 ha, 35.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331919.md - Parcel 344568: 125,351 m² (12.54 ha, 30.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344568.md - Parcel 345360: 85,449 m² (8.54 ha, 21.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345360.md - Parcel 317710: 47,531 m² (4.75 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317710.md - Parcel 4121189: 42,833 m² (4.28 ha, 10.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121189.md - Parcel 343330: 40,316 m² (4.03 ha, 9.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343330.md - Parcel 4121107: 39,258 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121107.md - Parcel 346373: 38,319 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346373.md - Parcel 349811: 38,299 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349811.md - Parcel 5659631: 22,726 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659631.md - Parcel 350667: 16,534 m² (1.65 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350667.md - Parcel 346337: 10,137 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346337.md - Parcel 352870: 5,503 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352870.md - Parcel 316886: 3,620 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316886.md - Parcel 351031: 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351031.md - Parcel 355822: 1,298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/355822.md - Parcel 337857: 490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337857.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Boughill 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20172: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct 1 no. new free range poultry house together with underground soiled water tanks, vertical meal bins and ancillary site works (to include a new agricultural site entrance). This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application and the EIAR will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of Monaghan County Council.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20172/0 - 12 Jul 2019, Monaghan County Council 19321: N/a. Permission. permission to construct a new free range poultry unit together with underground washing tanks, vertical meal bins, construct new agricultural entrance together with all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information relates to the submission of an EIAR.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19321/0 - 13 Jun 2019, Monaghan County Council 19268: N/a. Permission. permission to construct a free range poultry unit together with underground washing tanks, vertical meal bins, construct new agricultural entrance together with all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19268/0 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 Boughill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO012-042: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO012-042----. Located on top of a drumlin with a N-S section of the River Finn c. 160m to the W. This is a circular overgrown platform (diam. 35m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.6m) surrounded by an outer drystone wall that has largely collapsed. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018 - MO012-043: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO012-043----. Located on top of a low drumlin, at the crest of the E-facing slope. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 42m N-S; c. 32m E-W), the E half of which slopes down steeply to the E, defined by a slight earthen bank or overgrown scarp (at W: Wth 2.6m; H 1.55m), with a small bank at the base of the scarp WSW-NW. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018 - MO012-044: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO012-044----. Situated on a level, low-lying landscape. An enclosure is depicted at Boughill in this vicinity only on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793), but it is not marked on any later map. No archaeological feature is evident at ground level but the precise location is not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 17 July 2007 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boughill. ## 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 Boughill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boughill. - 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/monaghan/boughill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/boughill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/boughill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Boughill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annamakiff: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annamakiff.md - Cavanavally: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavanavally.md - Conaghy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/conaghy.md - Creevelea: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/creevelea-170589.md - Drumcaw: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcaw-170791.md - Gransha Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-beg.md - Killygorman: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killygorman.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/monaghan/boughill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/boughill