# Boyher, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Buíochar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 619,194 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 502 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ematris, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ematris.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Dawsongrove, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 752 people lived in 261 households in the Dawsongrove electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40063 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170191 - Centre: latitude 54.115365, longitude -7.020395 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boyher, from 16 m² to 109,831 m² (10.98 ha, 27.14 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 354383: 109,831 m² (10.98 ha, 27.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354383.md - Parcel 319188: 53,469 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319188.md - Parcel 356936: 40,174 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356936.md - Parcel 317487: 39,896 m² (3.99 ha, 9.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317487.md - Parcel 319186: 32,720 m² (3.27 ha, 8.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319186.md - Parcel 354037: 30,281 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354037.md - Parcel 319185: 18,124 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319185.md - Parcel 319523: 17,575 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319523.md - Parcel 2398581: 13,144 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2398581.md - Parcel 328937: 12,279 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328937.md - Parcel 316197: 10,909 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316197.md - Parcel 351145: 10,755 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351145.md - Parcel 336334: 5,343 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336334.md - Parcel 340197: 4,182 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340197.md - Parcel 319375: 3,842 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319375.md - Parcel 5418773: 3,357 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5418773.md - Parcel 332068: 3,340 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332068.md - Parcel 325723: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325723.md - Parcel 316857: 2,507 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316857.md - Parcel 4930639: 2,471 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4930639.md - Parcel 346415: 2,208 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346415.md - Parcel 315876: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315876.md - Parcel 5137594: 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5137594.md - Parcel 6041508: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6041508.md - Parcel 326736: 1,858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326736.md - Parcel 342175: 1,722 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342175.md - Parcel 5751425: 1,580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751425.md - Parcel 336817: 1,437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336817.md - Parcel 3996601: 1,401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996601.md - Parcel 5550318: 1,341 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5550318.md - Parcel 2398566: 1,247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2398566.md - Parcel 6030400: 1,155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6030400.md - Parcel 3996597: 1,143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996597.md - Parcel 330717: 1,059 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/330717.md - Parcel 339315: 1,044 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/339315.md - Parcel 4882014: 1,023 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882014.md - Parcel 341273: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/341273.md - Parcel 5510836: 920 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5510836.md - Parcel 3996600: 819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996600.md - Parcel 319660: 705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319660.md - Parcel 350238: 670 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350238.md - Parcel 349664: 617 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349664.md - Parcel 329731: 571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329731.md - Parcel 327829: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327829.md - Parcel 322732: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322732.md - Parcel 331459: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331459.md - Parcel 346121: 499 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346121.md - Parcel 331545: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331545.md - Parcel 336431: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336431.md - Parcel 347069: 482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347069.md - Parcel 325032: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325032.md - Parcel 337809: 451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337809.md - Parcel 324664: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324664.md - Parcel 337810: 436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337810.md - Parcel 336575: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336575.md - Parcel 351247: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351247.md - Parcel 345636: 395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345636.md - Parcel 355165: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/355165.md - Parcel 344233: 307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344233.md - Parcel 343416: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343416.md - Parcel 4120247: 279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4120247.md - Parcel 6030410: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6030410.md - Parcel 347945: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347945.md - Parcel 352688: 256 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352688.md - Parcel 344872: 248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344872.md - Parcel 345671: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345671.md - Parcel 319873: 245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319873.md - Parcel 321772: 241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321772.md - Parcel 3487741: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487741.md - Parcel 5940809: 228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5940809.md - Parcel 318317: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/318317.md - Parcel 5100770: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5100770.md - Parcel 3487689: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487689.md - Parcel 320502: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320502.md - Parcel 6098088: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6098088.md - Parcel 5918963: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5918963.md - Parcel 3487745: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487745.md - Parcel 5354985: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354985.md - Parcel 5354300: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354300.md - Parcel 4898522: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898522.md - Parcel 5449179: 103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449179.md - Parcel 5437332: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5437332.md - Parcel 353269: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353269.md - Parcel 315631: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315631.md - Parcel 351947: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351947.md - Parcel 1531184: 37 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531184.md - Parcel 320805: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320805.md - Parcel 1531386: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531386.md - Parcel 325263: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325263.md - Parcel 319459: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319459.md - Parcel 327710: 19 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327710.md - Parcel 5100771: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5100771.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Boyher 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 16 Sept 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660397: N/a. Permission. permission for the change of use from existing vacant commercial unit at ground floor level and associated stores at ground and lower ground floor level to a 3-bedroom apartment, elevational changes together with all associated site development works. The subject property is registered as a protected structure of local importance as listed in the Monaghan Co. Co. register of protected structures (ref no. 41401818). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660397/0 - 23 Jun 2026, Monaghan County Council 269009: Conditional. Extension of duration. permission for a development consisting of the construction of a sheltered and care accommodation village comprising of (1) alterations and rear extensions to existing terraced housing to northern boundary of site to create 4 no. single storey 2 bedroom residential care units, (2) construction of 2 no. blocks of 3 no. single storey 2 bedroom terraced residential care units, (3) change of use of existing Mill Building to eastern boundary of site to ancillary primary care and community use involving interior alterations and exterior restoration works, (4) block up existing entrance to public road and create replacement entrance and ancillary internal site service road together with car-parking spaces, pedestrian circulation and amenity areas, (5) connection to mains foul sewer and water services, (6) completion of all associated site structures and ancillary site works. The proposed development is situated within the curtilage of 1 no. protected structure (Reference 41401813) and constitutes 2 no. protected structures (Refernences 41401814 and 41401812). Significant further information relates to architectural design statement and impact assessment. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/269009/0 - 1 Mar 2023, Monaghan County Council 2366: Conditional. Retention. permission & retention permission consisting of (1) Installation of agricultural effluent collection tank, (2) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures together with the retention of agricultural shed incorporating bedded areas, straw storage area and machinery storage area located to the northern boundary of site, Significant Further Information relates to revised plans for retention of existing agricultural structures to include slatted shed, storage shed, walled silage pit, existing entrances to public road, concrete and hardcore surfaced yard areas.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2366/0 - 1 Mar 2023, Monaghan County Council 2367: Conditional. Permission. permission for development consisting of 1) Removal of existing 2 no. office buildings, 2) Construction of detached single storey office building incorporating office, sanitary canteen and storage areas, 3) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, 4) Provision of staff car parking area and machinery storage yard area, 5) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2367/0 - 31 Aug 2022, Monaghan County Council 22379: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development consisting of the installation of solar panel units on the cold store and loading bay buildings and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22379/0 - 6 Aug 2021, Monaghan County Council 21449: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing school building and outbuildings, including removal off site of 2 no. prefabricated classrooms. Construction of a new two storey 5 classroom primary school with connected G.P. hall and ancillary rooms (total area 1,182 sq. metres). 1 no. external ballcourt and play area. 1 no. external bin store (no roof). New vehicular access from R193 road and new internal road with vehicular set-down areas, 1 no. disabled parking space, 8 no. staff car parking spaces and associated ancillary landscaping boundary fence treatments and siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21449/0 - 16 Apr 2020, Monaghan County Council 20129: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development consisting of the construction of a sheltered and care accommodation village comprising of (1) alterations and rear extensions to existing terraced housing to northern boundary of site to create 4 no. single storey 2 bedroom residential care units, (2) construction of 2 no. blocks of 3 no. single storey 2 bedroom terraced residential care units, (3) change of use of existing Mill Building to eastern boundary of site to ancillary primary care and community use involving interior alterations and exterior restoration works, (4) block up existing entrance to public road and create replacement entrance and ancillary internal site service road together with car-parking spaces, pedestrian circulation and amenity areas, (5) connection to mains foul sewer and water services, (6) completion of all associated site structures and ancillary site works. The proposed development is situated within the curtilage of 1 no. protected structure (Reference 41401813) and constitutes 2 no. protected structures (Refernences 41401814 and 41401812). Significant further information relates to architectural design statement and impact assessment. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20129/0 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 Boyher. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boyher. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rockcorry Market House, market house, 1800–1810, Regional interest, registry number 41306002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306002. Detached three-bay two-storey former market house, dated 1805, with pedimented breakfront to front elevation, three-bay two-storey lean-to return at rear, lower two-storey addition to north-east angle, and former shopfront to south side elevation. External steps to north side elevation leading to addition. Now in use as store. Hipped natural slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with painted block-and-start quoins, smooth rendered plinth, and smooth-rendered string course incorporating round arches to front and side elevations. Render panels to front and side elevations. Rectangular plaque to pediment bearing date 1805 in Roman numerals. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills, boarded over to ground floor. Round-headed openings to front and side elevations with dressed stone voussoirs having projecting keystones, later filled in with windows to upper level, shopfronts to lower level to side elevations, and wide doorway, later window to front elevation. Square-headed door openings, boarded over. Located on corner of crossroads in centre of Rockcorry village. - Rockcorry Orange Hall, church/chapel, 1805–1810, Regional interest, registry number 41306003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306003. Detached three-bay former Methodist church, dated 1807, later in use as Orange hall, and recently extended to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and finials to gables, replacement rainwater goods, and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls having oval-shaped cut sandstone plaque to front elevation with lettering 'AD 1807 Methodist chapel under the patronage of TC Steuart Corry Esq. MP', and render plinth. Round-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with spoked heads and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed double four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to west gable. Round-headed door opening having double-leaf timber panelled door with fanlight. Wrought-iron gates with flanking cut limestone tapering octagonal piers, roughcast rendered boundary wall with sandstone coping and wrought-iron gates with decorative finial. - Mill (water), 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41306005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306005. Detached six-bay, two-storey water and steam-powered corn mill, built c.1850. Now in use as store. Replacement pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with cement verges, galvanised metal gutters and downpipes. Random rubble coursed stone walls, with finely dressed quoins. Segmental-headed windows to ground floor, brick surrounds,stone sills, infilled with concrete blocks and stone. Segmental-headed opening, having brick surrounds, now blocked up. North gable has possible opening for auxiliary drive. Square-headed openings to first floor, with brick surrounds and stone sills, boarded up. Northernmost opening converted to first floor loading door. Single brick-trimmed semi-circular-headed opening rising through both floors at south end of front elevation, partially blocked up. Square-headed door openings with inserted concrete lintels, metal-frame corrugated-sheet metal clad sliding and side-hung doors. Ruinous truncated remains of corn mill partly project into river to south-east, with brick-trimmed semi-circular opening at water level on north gable. Embanked head race and freestanding square-profile brick chimney to west of mill. Terrace of eight single-storey mill workers' houses located to north. - House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41306006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306006. Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to north end bay and integral carriageway to south end bays. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, replacement timber casement windows, and painted sills. Round-headed door opening with red brick surround and panelled timber door. Segmental-headed carriage entrance with red brick voussoirs and recent timber door. Segmental-arch opening to shopfront with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber fittings, with recent rubble limestone stall-risers. - House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41306007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306007. Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with additional two-storey bay to north having former integral carriageway to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and one polygonal pot. Smooth-rendered walls with render block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architrave to ground floor, replacement horned one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and painted sills. Round-headed door opening with panelled pilasters, imposts and moulded archivolt, with coloured glass fanlight, and timber panelled door. - School, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41306008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306008. End-of-terrace five bay two-storey former national school, dated 1847. Now in use as house. South end bay appears to be later addition and is slightly recessed from rear wall. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south end, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and red brick chimneystack with brick cogging detail. Coursed limestone rubble walls with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to south end, and red brick stretcher-bond string course above ground floor openings. Stone plaque over south doorway inscribed 'Rockcorry N.S. Estb. 1847'. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and flat-arch lintels, replacement timber six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and stone sills. Square-headed door openings to two bays, with red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and replacement timber doors with overlights. - Boyher House, manse, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41306009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306009. Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1850, with two-storey additions to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron profile rainwater goods. Coursed limestone rubble walls with ashlar sandstone rusticated block-and-start quoins, with sandstone brackets at eaves and continuing course of brackets to gables. Sections of red brick walling to chimney flues to gables. Square-headed window openings with patent margins, red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, stone sills, and horned timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two horizontal pane to first floor, margined one-over-one pane to ground floor, eight-over-eight pane to south gable, and replacement windows to rear. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, and timber panelled door with overlight. Set within own grounds with garden to front having flagstone pathway to gate, fronted to street by decorative railings and gateway of cast-iron, with ornate piers to ends having shield device. Located at centre of Rockcorry village. - Rockcorry Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835, Regional interest, registry number 41306010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306010. Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1830, and having similarly detailed hall recessed to north side. Pitched slate roof to gable-front (east) and hipped to west gable, with cast-iron rainwater goods, and cut-stone eaves course. Red brick chimneystack to west gable. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to gables and exposed rubble stone to long elevations, having painted stone quoins to gable-front and sandstone quoins to west gable. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills, with projecting keystones to south elevation and replacement render surrounds and sills to north elevation, painted stone surrounds to gable-front, with quarry glazed windows throughout. Oculus window to gable-front apex. Pointed arch door opening to gable-front having painted stone surround with inscribed date 'AD 1830' to keystone, double-leaf timber battened door with quarry glazed overlight. Interior has simple aisled layout with stained timber pulpit and furniture to west end, wall to back of which has render hood-moulding detail, smooth rendered ceiling and walls, with wainscoting to lower level of walls, and stained timber pews. Marble and brass plaques to nave. Hall has pitched slate roof, rendered walls with render plinth and quoins, pointed arch doorway flanked by pointed-arch windows, with render surrounds, and with oculus to apex having render surround. Chamfered square-plan painted stone gate piers to front boundary with cut-stone pyramidal caps, double-leaf wrought-iron gates, and rubble stone boundary wall with concrete coping. Lawn and path to front of building. - Water pump, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 41306012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306012. Freestanding cast-iron hydrant erected c.1880. Now disused. Cylindrical with fluted shaft and moulded plinth. Fluted domed cap surmounted by acorn finial, with later tap to south side. Cast-iron spout and vessel-resting bracket to east side. Illegible foundry mark to centre of shaft. Set on concrete plinth in green space adjacent to Church of Ireland at centre of Rockcorry. Earlier water pump immediately to east. - Water pump, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 41306013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306013. Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870. Now disused. Cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with spout having ram's head bucket grip, fluted domed cap with finial and cow's-tail handle. Illegible foundry mark cast to centre of shaft. Set on concrete plinth in green area between Church of Ireland and Presbyterian church. Later hydrant immediately to west. - Almshouse, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41306014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306014. End-of terrace three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former almshouse, dated 1847, with pediment to front elevation. One of row of four almshouses at south side of Rockcorry village. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof, gabled to pediment, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and having ashlar coping to pediment, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with rusticated block-and-start sandstone quoins, sandstone eaves course at pediment base, and chamfered sandstone plinth. Sandstone shield plaque to pediment inscribed 'THOSE HOUSES WERE ERECTED BY JOS[EPH] GRIFFITH ESQ FOR DESTITUTE WIDOWS A.D.1847'. Roughcast rendered to gable. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and with mix of six-over-six and three-over-six pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber battened door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Single-cell toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate on chamfered sandstone plinth. - Almshouse, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41306015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306015. Terraced three-bay two-storey former almshouse, dated 1847. Part of row of four almshouses. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with sandstone eaves course and chamfered sandstone plinth. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and mixed six-over-six and six-over-three pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by railings and pedestrian gate of cast-iron on chamfered sandstone plinth. - Almshouse, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41306016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306016. Terraced three-bay two-storey former almshouse, dated 1847. Part of row of four almshouses. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with sandstone eaves course and chamfered sandstone plinth. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and mixed six-over-six and six-over-three pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by railings and pedestrian gate of cast-iron on chamfered sandstone plinth. - Almshouse, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41306017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306017. End-of terrace three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former almshouse, dated 1847, with pediment to front elevation. One of row of four almshouses at south side of Rockcorry village. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof, gabled to pediment, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and having ashlar coping to pediment, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with rusticated block-and-start sandstone quoins, sandstone eaves course at pediment base, and chamfered sandstone plinth. Sandstone shield plaque to pediment inscribed 'THOSE HOUSES WERE ERECTED BY JOS[EPH] GRIFFITH ESQ FOR DESTITUTE WIDOWS A.D.1847'. Roughcast rendered to gable. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and with mix of six-over-six and three-over-six pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber battened door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Single-cell toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate on chamfered sandstone plinth. - Saint James's Church (Ematris), church/chapel, 1850–1865, Regional interest, registry number 41306018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306018. Freestanding limestone Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1854-61, probably to designs by Welland & Gillespie. Consisting of four-bay nave, lower single-bay chancel, gabled vestry to north, gabled porch and three-stage spired tower to south. Pitched natural slate roof with cut-stone copings and Celtic Cross finials, moulded cast-iron gutters, and with chimneystack to vestry. Squared and snecked dressed walls with dressed plinth having lozenge-shaped vent, stepped buttresses to corners. Upper part of tower octagonal in plan, with stepped courses above and rises to octagonal-plan belfry having moulded cornice above which is stepped-plan spire with wrought-iron weather vane. Pointed-arch double-light windows to nave with chamfered surrounds and flush sills, diagonal glazing, and with quatrefoils over. Single-light pointed-arch windows side walls of chancel and to vestry. Triple-light lancet window to west gable surmounted by trefoil, and five-light window to east gable. Belfry has loop apertures to all facets. Entrance doorways have vertically battened timber doors with wrought-iron strap hinges, hinges to main entrance being ornate, within depressed pointed-arch doorways with splayed surrounds and hood-mouldings to west elevation of tower and vestry, pointed-arch principal portal to south porch gable with deeply moulded and rebated surround. Simple aisled interior with chancel to north-east end approached via low step. Dark stained timber arch-braced A-framed trussed roof structure, supported on moulded stone corbels. Light stained timber pews and wainscoting. Dark stained timber pulpit and organ to north-east end of nave, carved granite font near south-west of interior. Stained timber railing and double-leaf timber gate dividing chancel from nave, decoratively tiled floor to chancel. Set in graveyard enclosed by rubble stone plinth wall supporting decorative wrought-iron railings and double-leaf vehicular gate set to square-plan buttressed ashlar piers. - Aisling House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 41306022, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306022. Detached three-bay two-storey former parsonage, built c.1860, with gabled porch to central bay, and two-storey extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Flemish bond chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds, one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, and timber casement window to ground floor rear. Square-headed door opening having moulded render architrave with plinth blocks, and replacement door, with stone steps. Outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof, rendered walls, segmental-headed and square-headed vehicular door openings with battened timber double-leaf doors. Wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gateways to north-west set to fluted cast-iron pier and decorative details. Set within own grounds with garden to south. - House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41306023, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41306023. End of terrace house, built c.1820, of two storeys over basement, with attic floor having two-bay first floor, four-bay ground floor, and two-bay east gable. Pitched slate roof with rendered gable-end chimneystacks and rendered eaves band, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with fixed timber windows to attic floor and timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, six-over-six pane to front ground and first floors, tripartite to first floor, three-over-three pane to basement front, and one-over-one pane to east gable. Square-headed timber panelled door to front, reached by flight of replacement steps over basement area with rendered parapets and metal railings. Outbuildings to rear much modernised or rebuilt. ## 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 Boyher, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boyher. - 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/boyher.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/boyher.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/boyher.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Boyher, Rockcorry: 8 sales, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/boyher-rockcorry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Claraghy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/claraghy.md - Drumlona: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlona.md - Drummulla: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drummulla.md - Fairfield Demesne: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/fairfield-demesne.md - Glen: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/glen-171053.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/boyher - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/boyher