Bohernaghty

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohernaghty, from 212 m² to 178,482 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Bohernaghty 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.

• 25 Jan 2022Refused

  construct a bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2229

• 29 Apr 2021Refused

  construct a bungalow , septic tank percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21271

• 23 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct an astro turf pitch with 3.0m high perimter fence and floodlights. Planning permission is also sought for alterations to previously granted shed under planning ref. 17247 along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21107

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  construct a bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and domestic garage, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18693

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct the following , A new agricultural entrance to my lands along with all ancillary services and associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18193

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  construct a walking track and associated boundaries, the removal of existing flood lights and the provision of new flood lights, the construction of a ball wall and storage shed along with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17247

• 16 May 2017N/a

  construct a walking track and associated boundaries, the removal of existing flood lights and the provision of new flood lights, the construction of a ball wall and storage shed along with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17234

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 the townland of Bohernaghty.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohernaghty.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bohernaghty, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Bohernaghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Bohernaghty · Bóthar na hOchtaí

Area

1,237,660 m² (123.77 ha, 305.83 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafin, Churchfield, Churchtown, Danganroe, Knockacoller, Oldborris

Placenames

Bohernaghty 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.