# Boherboy, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Birr, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Bóthar Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 443,747 m² (44.37 ha, 109.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Birr, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/birr.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Birr Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41179 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180250 - Centre: latitude 53.082471, longitude -7.862626 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherboy, from 85 m² to 400,549 m² (40.05 ha, 98.98 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5254294: 400,549 m² (40.05 ha, 98.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5254294.md - Parcel 278244: 34,200 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278244.md - Parcel 284283: 2,853 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284283.md - Parcel 291510: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291510.md - Parcel 294114: 2,051 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294114.md - Parcel 6111984: 573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6111984.md - Parcel 6111943: 85 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6111943.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Oct 2025, Offaly County Council 25101: Conditional. Retention. (A) General storage shed as constructed (B) Straw and feed store as constructed (C) Silage pit/slab and associated site works as constructed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25101/0 - 9 Nov 2018, Offaly County Council 18499: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18499/0 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 Boherboy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherboy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Boherboy House, farm house, 1870–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14935009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14935009. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1673.zip (ZIP). - 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/offaly/boherboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boherboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boherboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Boherboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinree-180079.md - Coolnagrower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnagrower.md - Derrinduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrinduff.md - Fortel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fortel.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/offaly/boherboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/boherboy