Bohernagrisna
Bohernagrisna is a townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Buaile na nDrisneach.
Parcel 285480
- Area
- 3,085 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 325 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
- Bohernagrisna
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1798 (ZIP).
- 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
- 142.4 ha
- 352 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 4,749 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Open Space, Amenity and Recreation
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohernagrisna, from 244 m² to 282,030 m² (28.2 ha, 69.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
- G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2025Conditional
the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter percolation area, connection to public water main and all associated site works to complete the development
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560688
16 Dec 2025Conditional
the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter percolation area, connection to public water main and all associated site works to complete the development
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560650
23 May 2025Conditional
construction of a new general storage shed for domestic use, internal floor area 169.34m2, completed with associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560187
18 Dec 2024Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER MAIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT AT BOHERNAGRISNA, BALLYCUMBER, CO OFFALY.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460519
9 Oct 2023Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23395
28 Apr 2021Refused
A PROPOSED NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW DRIVEWAY, NEW CONNECTION TO LOCAL AUTHORITY PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW WATEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, STORMWATER SOAKAWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS & LANDSCAPING
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21252
12 Oct 2020Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20489
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC 000572
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog 000572
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bohernagrisna.
Architectural heritage
- Ballycumber Bridge, bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch masonry road bridge, erected c.1850, carrying the Ballycumber to Clara road over the River Brosna. Roughly dressed blocks laid randomly to parapets with rusticated and margined voussoirs. Random rubble approach walls. Pedestrian stile to east.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1798 (ZIP).
- 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 Bohernagrisna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Bohernagrisna · Buaile na nDrisneach
- Area
- 1,424,231 m² (142.42 ha, 351.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Bawn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 353 people lived in 116 households in the Bawn electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Ballybruncullin, Ballycumber, Clonshanny
- Placenames
- Bohernagrisna 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.