Boherbaun Lower

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherbaun Lower, from 14 m² to 362,891 m² (36.29 ha, 89.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Boherbaun Lower 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.

• 20 Mar 2026Refused

  proposed single story type dwelling, new vehicular entrance, septic tank with reedbed effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660288

• 1 Jun 2025Refused

  for proposed single storey type log cabin (dwelling), new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560594

• 30 May 2025N/a

  for a proposed single storey type log cabin (dwelling), new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560586

• 27 May 2025N/a

  for a proposed single storey type log cabin (dwelling), new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560566

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  (a) Erection of a single storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and raised tertiary filter percolation area and (d) New recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211306

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307284

• 31 May 2019Refused

  1.The construction of a new three bedroom 210 sq.m. detached dormer bungalow. 2. The installation of a new wastewater treatment system & percolation area.3. All associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19621

• 23 Nov 2018Refused

  (1) The construction of a new two storey, three bedroom 225sqm detached house. (2) The installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. (3) All Associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181414

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherbaun Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Boherbaun Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Boherbaun Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Boherbaun Lower

Area

1,897,429 m² (189.74 ha, 468.86 acres)

Civil parish

Harristown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Harristown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

479 people lived in 158 households in the Harristown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Cherrymills, Cloney, Pullagh

Placenames

Boherbaun Lower 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.