Boherboy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherboy, from 85 m² to 400,549 m² (40.05 ha, 98.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Boherboy 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.

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  (A) General storage shed as constructed (B) Straw and feed store as constructed (C) Silage pit/slab and associated site works as constructed

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 25101

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1.5 STOREY EXTENSION (CIRCA. 158M SQ.) TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING (EXISTING AREA 43M SQ.) INCLUDING REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT OF SAME WITH NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18499

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 Boherboy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherboy.

Architectural heritage

• Boherboy House, farm house, 1870–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1890, with two-storey return to rear and abutted by outbuilding to east. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with stucco surround, replacement timber panelled door. Roughcast rendered outbuilding abutting eastern gable with pitched slate roof and corrugated-iron roof with lean-to extension to rear. Stone outbuildings to yard with pitched slate roofs. Random coursed stone wall to west with stone gate piers and wrought-iron gate. Freestanding rendered gate piers to front site. New stone gate piers to road with wrought-iron gates, sweeping walls and metal railings.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1673 (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.

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

Name

Boherboy · An Bóthar Buí

Area

443,747 m² (44.37 ha, 109.65 acres)

Civil parish

Birr, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Birr Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Birr Rural electoral division: 1,300 people in 478 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Coolnagrower, Derrinduff, Fortel

Placenames

Boherboy 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.