Bohanboy
Bohanboy is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 1419898
- Area
- 151,158 m² (15.12 ha, 37.35 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,632 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Bohanboy
Planning applications on this parcel
29 Mar 2017Conditional
(a) CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND (b) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750453
27 Jan 2017N/a
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750116
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 166 ha
- 410 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 17,748 m² (1.77 ha, 4.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohanboy, from 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 207,809 m² (20.78 ha, 51.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bohanboy 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
26 Jan 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANEWAY AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BEDDED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660086
7 Aug 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF DWELLING AND ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561359
19 Jul 2025N/a
DEMOLITION OF DWELLING AND ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561239
20 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251063
29 Mar 2017Conditional
(a) CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND (b) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750453
27 Jan 2017N/a
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750116
13 Jan 2017Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750020
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 Bohanboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohanboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bohanboy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bohanboy, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bohanboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bohanboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Bohanboy
- Area
- 1,660,331 m² (166.03 ha, 410.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Killygordon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Calhame, Carricknamanna, Cavan Upper, Corradooey, Leaght, Roosky Upper, Whitehill
- Placenames
- Bohanboy 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.