Parkaree or Boherfadda
Townland in the civil parish of Lemanaghan, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Páirc an Fhraoigh nó An Bóthar Fada
- Area
- 115.3 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 6,654 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkaree or Boherfadda, from 153 m² to 109,135 m² (10.91 ha, 26.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Parkaree or Boherfadda 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jun 2026Conditional
(RED III) the installation of a heat pump and a 2000l LPG tank as part of school decarbonisation project under a Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660290
10 May 2026N/a
(Red 111)The installation of a heat pump and a 2000l LPG tank as part of school decarbonisation project at St Ciarans Mixed NS, Boher, Ballycumber, Co. Offaly R35 P448 under a Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660261
8 Apr 2025Conditional
the erection of dwelling house, installation of effluent waste water treatment system including percolation system, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560114
12 Nov 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24162
12 Jan 2024Conditional
THE ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROVISION FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTIC, INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING PERCOLATION SYSTEM, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 244
19 Dec 2023N/a
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROVISION FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTIC, INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING PERCOLATION SYSTEM, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 23431
2 Aug 2022Conditional
A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, A DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22382
5 Jul 2021Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED UNDER THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES IN THE OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (REF. NO. 11-004)
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21413
15 Jun 2021N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21375
4 Mar 2021Conditional
COSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FLITER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2199
24 Jun 2020Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF PROPOSED SET DOWN AREA AND STAFF PARKING INCLUDING WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, HARD SURFACE PLAY AREA AND PROPOSED OFFICE EXTENSION WITHIN EXISTING COURTYARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20239
25 Oct 2018Conditional
BUILDING NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18469
11 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. ASD CLASSROOM UNITS AND TEACHING AND RESOURCE ROOMS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING SCHOOL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18440
31 May 2018Conditional
THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18234
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Parkaree or Boherfadda.
Recorded monuments
- OF007-035 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Depicted as 'Holy Well' on all editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. 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/revision: 24 April 2012 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
- OF007-036 Earthwork
Description
Not visible at ground level. Potential earthworks identified from GSI aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 530/1). 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/revision: 20 December 2011
Architectural heritage
- Saint Manchin's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached cruciform Roman Catholic church, built c.1860, with three-bay nave, square profile tower to south and sacristy. Pitched slate roof with decorative ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled and lined rendered walls and stucco quoins. Pointed arched window openings with stained glass windows. Pointed arched door openings with hood moldings, timber battened doors and transitional switch track glazing to overlights. Graveyard to south-west of church enclosed behind rendered wall. Church yard accessed through cast-iron double gates supported by limestone piers and flanked by pedestrian gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Parkaree or Boherfadda.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Parkaree or Boherfadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Parkaree or Boherfadda · Páirc an Fhraoigh nó An Bóthar Fada
- Area
- 1,152,628 m² (115.26 ha, 284.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lemanaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Ballycumber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballycumber electoral division: 741 people in 265 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellair or Ballyard, Castlearmstrong, Cornafurrish and Corrabeg, Grogan and Corroe, Moorock, Springpark
- Placenames
- Parkaree or Boherfadda 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.