Bogtown

131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bogtown, from 30 m² to 201,144 m² (20.11 ha, 49.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bogtown 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.

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  revised site boundaries, revised location of the house and Septic tank on site, PREVIOUS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 24/60281 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS’

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460517

• 9 Dec 2024N/a

  development consisting OF REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES PREVIOUS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 24/60281 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS’

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460494

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  The development will consists of PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY TYPE DWELLING, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE , SEPTIC TANK SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460281

• 28 May 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of; THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460189

• 12 Oct 2023Conditional

  single storey extension to front of dwelling, side porch, all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360146

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  TWO STOREY DWELLING, ENTRANCE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH RAISED BED POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23328

• 9 Jun 2023N/a

  TWO STOREY DWELLING, ENTRANCE, GARAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH RAISED BED POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23268

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  FRONT PORCH AND TWO WINDOWS IN DWELLING HOUSE. RETENTION PERMISSION FOR FUEL SHED AND DOMESTIC STORE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23251

• 30 Nov 2022Conditional

  PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY TYPE DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND SECONDARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22617

• 16 Aug 2021Conditional

  FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO LEFT SIDE/EASTERN ELEVATION OF EXISITNG DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21508

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21354

• 13 Aug 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMODATION AND RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE EXTENSION WHICH INCORPORATES THE GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20368

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  (a) DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED; (b) ENTRANCE AS LOCATED AND (c) GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17109

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bogtown.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-036001 Church
  Description

  No surface trace visible of church or burial ground (OF026-036002-). Marked on 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'Burying Ground' and described in the OS Field Name Books as 'Templeshenan', which is derived from Teampull Sheanain (St Senan's Church) and described as 'These are the remains of an old church and burying ground (OSFNB 1837-40, vol. 1, 61). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-036002 Graveyard
  Description

  No surface trace visible of church (OF026-036001-) or burial ground. Marked on 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a 'Burying Ground' and described in the OS Field Name Books as 'Templeshenan', which is derived from Teampull Sheanain (St Senan's Church) and described as 'These are the remains of an old church and burying ground (OSFNB 1837-40, vol. 1, 61). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 434/3) shows cropmark of circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSIAP, N 175/4; 434/3) taken between April and June 1973 show cropmark of rectangular enclosure. Possible moated site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bogtown.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bogtown.

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.

No address of the register names Bogtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Bogtown · Doire na Buaile

Area

3,269,240 m² (326.92 ha, 807.85 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykean, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballyshear, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshear electoral division: 407 people in 134 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonygowan, Derreen, Kilcappagh, Kilcooney, Moanvane

Placenames

Bogtown 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.