Bomany
Bomany is a townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Bomaine.
Parcel 2390646
- Area
- 1,930 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 179 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
- Bomany
Planning applications on this parcel
21 Oct 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETATCHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951582
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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 86.1 ha
- 213 acres
- Land parcels
- 115
- registered freehold, median 2,328 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bomany, from 45 m² to 127,304 m² (12.73 ha, 31.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bomany 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
27 Feb 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF ROOF DESIGN TO A DWELLING HOUSE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/61971
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660295
12 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561971
1 Nov 2025N/a
(1) RENOVATION OF 60SQM EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF 150SQM SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND A NEW DETACHED 25SQM DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561898
21 May 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CHILD CRÉCHE PLAYROOM AND TOILET FACILITIES TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND EXISTING CHILDCARE FACILITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FURTHER FLOOR SPACE AND PLAY ROOM FACILITY FOR EXISTING CHILDREN AND CHILD NUMBERS ON SITE, (2) MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE SITTING ROOM AND KITCHEN INTO CHILD CRÉCHE PLAYROOM AND TOILET FACILITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FURTHER FLOOR SPACE AND PLAY ROOM FACILITY FOR EXISTING CHILDREN AND CHILD NUMBERS ON SITE, (3) MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE INTO NURSERY AND MONTESSORI SCHOOL PLAY ROOM AND TOILET FACILITY AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT ON SITE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FURTHER FLOOR SPACE AND PLAY ROOM FACILITY FOR EXISTING CHILDREN AND CHILD NUMBERS ON SITE, (4) EXTENSION OF EXISTING CAR PARKING AREA AND SPACES TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE ON SITE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560813
27 Jan 2025Refused
(1) MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INTO CHILD CRÉCHE FACILITIES, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHILD CRÉCHE PLAYROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND EXISTING CHILDCARE FACILITY, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDING TO SIDE OF EXISTING CHILDCARE FACILITY BUILDING CONNECTING TO EXISTING NURSERY AND MONTESSORI SCHOOL PLAY ROOM AND EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION BUILDING TO INCLUDE CIRCULATION CORRIDOR AND TOILET FACILITIES AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT ON SITE, (4) MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE INTO NURSERY AND MONTESSORI SCHOOL PLAY ROOM AND TOILET FACILITY AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT ON SITE , (5) PROVISION OF FIRE ESCAPE OPENINGS TO EXISTING GABLE WINDOWS TO INCLUDE EXTERNAL STAIRS/ACCESS FROM FIRST FLOOR TO GROUND LEVEL EXTERNALLY, (6) RELOCATION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY STAFF ROOM PORTACABIN STRUCTURE TO SUITABLE AREA ON-SITE, (7) CONSTRUCTION OF COVERED EXTERNAL CHILD PLAY AREA TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING CHILDCARE FACILITY, (8) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STORAGE AREA FOR KITCHEN AND SUPPLIES PURPOSES AND (9) EXTENSION OF CAR PARKING AREA AND SPACES TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE ON SITE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560083
6 Nov 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461787
26 Feb 2024N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460215
27 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151920
17 May 2021Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT (WEST) SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE AND OF A CANOPY TO THE REAR (EAST) SIDE OF THE HOUSE (2) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO ALL SIDES OF THE EXISTING HOUSE (3) RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD FURTHER SOUTH ALONG THE L-1034-1 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150931
28 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150770
25 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150528
28 Jan 2021Conditional
(1) PORTACABIN STRUCTURE ON SITE (USED FOR STAFF ROOM PURPOSES) (2) MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE OF DOMESTIC GARAGE INTO NURSERY & MONTESSORI SCHOOL PLAY ROOM (3) DOMESTIC GARAGE STRUCTURE ON SITE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150106
1 Nov 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED HOUSE TYPE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO: 19/50884 WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951671
21 Oct 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETATCHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951582
31 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951177
7 Jun 2019Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF DWELLING AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (3) PROVISION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950884
2 May 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ACCESS LANEWAY INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750640
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 Bomany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bomany.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bomany.
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 Bomany, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bomany.
- 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
- Bomany, Letterkenny15 sales
The townland
- Name
- Bomany · Bomaine
- Area
- 861,057 m² (86.11 ha, 212.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Ballymacool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,741 people lived in 963 households in the Ballymacool electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconnelly, Brownhall, Conwal, Rockhill, Tullygay
- Placenames
- Bomany 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.