Boyher

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boyher, from 16 m² to 109,831 m² (10.98 ha, 27.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Boyher 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a sheltered and care accommodation village comprising of (1) alterations and rear extensions to existing terraced housing to northern boundary of site to create 4 no. single storey 2 bedroom residential care units, (2) construction of 2 no. blocks of 3 no. single storey 2 bedroom terraced residential care units, (3) change of use of existing Mill Building to eastern boundary of site to ancillary primary care and community use involving interior alterations and exterior restoration works, (4) block up existing entrance to public road and create replacement entrance and ancillary internal site service road together with car-parking spaces, pedestrian circulation and amenity areas, (5) connection to mains foul sewer and water services, (6) completion of all associated site structures and ancillary site works. The proposed development is situated within the curtilage of 1 no. protected structure (Reference 41401813) and constitutes 2 no. protected structures (Refernences 41401814 and 41401812). Significant further information relates to architectural design statement and impact assessment

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 269009

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission & retention permission consisting of (1) Installation of agricultural effluent collection tank, (2) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures together with the retention of agricultural shed incorporating bedded areas, straw storage area and machinery storage area located to the northern boundary of site, Significant Further Information relates to revised plans for retention of existing agricultural structures to include slatted shed, storage shed, walled silage pit, existing entrances to public road, concrete and hardcore surfaced yard areas.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2366

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of 1) Removal of existing 2 no. office buildings, 2) Construction of detached single storey office building incorporating office, sanitary canteen and storage areas, 3) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, 4) Provision of staff car parking area and machinery storage yard area, 5) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2367

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the installation of solar panel units on the cold store and loading bay buildings and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22379

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing school building and outbuildings, including removal off site of 2 no. prefabricated classrooms. Construction of a new two storey 5 classroom primary school with connected G.P. hall and ancillary rooms (total area 1,182 sq. metres). 1 no. external ballcourt and play area. 1 no. external bin store (no roof). New vehicular access from R193 road and new internal road with vehicular set-down areas, 1 no. disabled parking space, 8 no. staff car parking spaces and associated ancillary landscaping boundary fence treatments and siteworks

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21449

• 16 Apr 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a sheltered and care accommodation village comprising of (1) alterations and rear extensions to existing terraced housing to northern boundary of site to create 4 no. single storey 2 bedroom residential care units, (2) construction of 2 no. blocks of 3 no. single storey 2 bedroom terraced residential care units, (3) change of use of existing Mill Building to eastern boundary of site to ancillary primary care and community use involving interior alterations and exterior restoration works, (4) block up existing entrance to public road and create replacement entrance and ancillary internal site service road together with car-parking spaces, pedestrian circulation and amenity areas, (5) connection to mains foul sewer and water services, (6) completion of all associated site structures and ancillary site works. The proposed development is situated within the curtilage of 1 no. protected structure (Reference 41401813) and constitutes 2 no. protected structures (Refernences 41401814 and 41401812). Significant further information relates to architectural design statement and impact assessment

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20129

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 Boyher.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boyher.

Architectural heritage

• Rockcorry Market House, market house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former market house, dated 1805, with pedimented breakfront to front elevation, three-bay two-storey lean-to return at rear, lower two-storey addition to north-east angle, and former shopfront to south side elevation. External steps to north side elevation leading to addition. Now in use as store. Hipped natural slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with painted block-and-start quoins, smooth rendered plinth, and smooth-rendered string course incorporating round arches to front and side elevations. Render panels to front and side elevations. Rectangular plaque to pediment bearing date 1805 in Roman numerals. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills, boarded over to ground floor. Round-headed openings to front and side elevations with dressed stone voussoirs having projecting keystones, later filled in with windows to upper level, shopfronts to lower level to side elevations, and wide doorway, later window to front elevation. Square-headed door openings, boarded over. Located on corner of crossroads in centre of Rockcorry village.

• Rockcorry Orange Hall, church/chapel, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay former Methodist church, dated 1807, later in use as Orange hall, and recently extended to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and finials to gables, replacement rainwater goods, and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls having oval-shaped cut sandstone plaque to front elevation with lettering 'AD 1807 Methodist chapel under the patronage of TC Steuart Corry Esq. MP', and render plinth. Round-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with spoked heads and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed double four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to west gable. Round-headed door opening having double-leaf timber panelled door with fanlight. Wrought-iron gates with flanking cut limestone tapering octagonal piers, roughcast rendered boundary wall with sandstone coping and wrought-iron gates with decorative finial.

• Mill (water), 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay, two-storey water and steam-powered corn mill, built c.1850. Now in use as store. Replacement pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with cement verges, galvanised metal gutters and downpipes. Random rubble coursed stone walls, with finely dressed quoins. Segmental-headed windows to ground floor, brick surrounds,stone sills, infilled with concrete blocks and stone. Segmental-headed opening, having brick surrounds, now blocked up. North gable has possible opening for auxiliary drive. Square-headed openings to first floor, with brick surrounds and stone sills, boarded up. Northernmost opening converted to first floor loading door. Single brick-trimmed semi-circular-headed opening rising through both floors at south end of front elevation, partially blocked up. Square-headed door openings with inserted concrete lintels, metal-frame corrugated-sheet metal clad sliding and side-hung doors. Ruinous truncated remains of corn mill partly project into river to south-east, with brick-trimmed semi-circular opening at water level on north gable. Embanked head race and freestanding square-profile brick chimney to west of mill. Terrace of eight single-storey mill workers' houses located to north.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to north end bay and integral carriageway to south end bays. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, replacement timber casement windows, and painted sills. Round-headed door opening with red brick surround and panelled timber door. Segmental-headed carriage entrance with red brick voussoirs and recent timber door. Segmental-arch opening to shopfront with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber fittings, with recent rubble limestone stall-risers.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with additional two-storey bay to north having former integral carriageway to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and one polygonal pot. Smooth-rendered walls with render block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architrave to ground floor, replacement horned one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and painted sills. Round-headed door opening with panelled pilasters, imposts and moulded archivolt, with coloured glass fanlight, and timber panelled door.

• School, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five bay two-storey former national school, dated 1847. Now in use as house. South end bay appears to be later addition and is slightly recessed from rear wall. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south end, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and red brick chimneystack with brick cogging detail. Coursed limestone rubble walls with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to south end, and red brick stretcher-bond string course above ground floor openings. Stone plaque over south doorway inscribed 'Rockcorry N.S. Estb. 1847'. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and flat-arch lintels, replacement timber six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and stone sills. Square-headed door openings to two bays, with red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and replacement timber doors with overlights.

• Boyher House, manse, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1850, with two-storey additions to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron profile rainwater goods. Coursed limestone rubble walls with ashlar sandstone rusticated block-and-start quoins, with sandstone brackets at eaves and continuing course of brackets to gables. Sections of red brick walling to chimney flues to gables. Square-headed window openings with patent margins, red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, stone sills, and horned timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two horizontal pane to first floor, margined one-over-one pane to ground floor, eight-over-eight pane to south gable, and replacement windows to rear. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, and timber panelled door with overlight. Set within own grounds with garden to front having flagstone pathway to gate, fronted to street by decorative railings and gateway of cast-iron, with ornate piers to ends having shield device. Located at centre of Rockcorry village.

• Rockcorry Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted five-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1830, and having similarly detailed hall recessed to north side. Pitched slate roof to gable-front (east) and hipped to west gable, with cast-iron rainwater goods, and cut-stone eaves course. Red brick chimneystack to west gable. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to gables and exposed rubble stone to long elevations, having painted stone quoins to gable-front and sandstone quoins to west gable. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills, with projecting keystones to south elevation and replacement render surrounds and sills to north elevation, painted stone surrounds to gable-front, with quarry glazed windows throughout. Oculus window to gable-front apex. Pointed arch door opening to gable-front having painted stone surround with inscribed date 'AD 1830' to keystone, double-leaf timber battened door with quarry glazed overlight. Interior has simple aisled layout with stained timber pulpit and furniture to west end, wall to back of which has render hood-moulding detail, smooth rendered ceiling and walls, with wainscoting to lower level of walls, and stained timber pews. Marble and brass plaques to nave. Hall has pitched slate roof, rendered walls with render plinth and quoins, pointed arch doorway flanked by pointed-arch windows, with render surrounds, and with oculus to apex having render surround. Chamfered square-plan painted stone gate piers to front boundary with cut-stone pyramidal caps, double-leaf wrought-iron gates, and rubble stone boundary wall with concrete coping. Lawn and path to front of building.

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron hydrant erected c.1880. Now disused. Cylindrical with fluted shaft and moulded plinth. Fluted domed cap surmounted by acorn finial, with later tap to south side. Cast-iron spout and vessel-resting bracket to east side. Illegible foundry mark to centre of shaft. Set on concrete plinth in green space adjacent to Church of Ireland at centre of Rockcorry. Earlier water pump immediately to east.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870. Now disused. Cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with spout having ram's head bucket grip, fluted domed cap with finial and cow's-tail handle. Illegible foundry mark cast to centre of shaft. Set on concrete plinth in green area between Church of Ireland and Presbyterian church. Later hydrant immediately to west.

• Almshouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of terrace three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former almshouse, dated 1847, with pediment to front elevation. One of row of four almshouses at south side of Rockcorry village. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof, gabled to pediment, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and having ashlar coping to pediment, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with rusticated block-and-start sandstone quoins, sandstone eaves course at pediment base, and chamfered sandstone plinth. Sandstone shield plaque to pediment inscribed 'THOSE HOUSES WERE ERECTED BY JOS[EPH] GRIFFITH ESQ FOR DESTITUTE WIDOWS A.D.1847'. Roughcast rendered to gable. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and with mix of six-over-six and three-over-six pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber battened door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Single-cell toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate on chamfered sandstone plinth.

• Almshouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey former almshouse, dated 1847. Part of row of four almshouses. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with sandstone eaves course and chamfered sandstone plinth. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and mixed six-over-six and six-over-three pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by railings and pedestrian gate of cast-iron on chamfered sandstone plinth.

• Almshouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey former almshouse, dated 1847. Part of row of four almshouses. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with sandstone eaves course and chamfered sandstone plinth. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and mixed six-over-six and six-over-three pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by railings and pedestrian gate of cast-iron on chamfered sandstone plinth.

• Almshouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of terrace three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former almshouse, dated 1847, with pediment to front elevation. One of row of four almshouses at south side of Rockcorry village. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof, gabled to pediment, with grey clayware ridge tiles, and having ashlar coping to pediment, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with polygonal terracotta pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed limestone walling with rusticated block-and-start sandstone quoins, sandstone eaves course at pediment base, and chamfered sandstone plinth. Sandstone shield plaque to pediment inscribed 'THOSE HOUSES WERE ERECTED BY JOS[EPH] GRIFFITH ESQ FOR DESTITUTE WIDOWS A.D.1847'. Roughcast rendered to gable. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and with mix of six-over-six and three-over-six pane to rear, with stone sills. Round-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, timber battened door with spoked timber fanlight, and flagstone door-step with cast-iron boot-scraper. Single-cell toilet to rear having concrete walls and lean-to corrugated-iron roof. Shared garden to rear. Set back from street, with garden to front bounded by cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate on chamfered sandstone plinth.

• Saint James's Church (Ematris), church/chapel, 1850–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1854-61, probably to designs by Welland & Gillespie. Consisting of four-bay nave, lower single-bay chancel, gabled vestry to north, gabled porch and three-stage spired tower to south. Pitched natural slate roof with cut-stone copings and Celtic Cross finials, moulded cast-iron gutters, and with chimneystack to vestry. Squared and snecked dressed walls with dressed plinth having lozenge-shaped vent, stepped buttresses to corners. Upper part of tower octagonal in plan, with stepped courses above and rises to octagonal-plan belfry having moulded cornice above which is stepped-plan spire with wrought-iron weather vane. Pointed-arch double-light windows to nave with chamfered surrounds and flush sills, diagonal glazing, and with quatrefoils over. Single-light pointed-arch windows side walls of chancel and to vestry. Triple-light lancet window to west gable surmounted by trefoil, and five-light window to east gable. Belfry has loop apertures to all facets. Entrance doorways have vertically battened timber doors with wrought-iron strap hinges, hinges to main entrance being ornate, within depressed pointed-arch doorways with splayed surrounds and hood-mouldings to west elevation of tower and vestry, pointed-arch principal portal to south porch gable with deeply moulded and rebated surround. Simple aisled interior with chancel to north-east end approached via low step. Dark stained timber arch-braced A-framed trussed roof structure, supported on moulded stone corbels. Light stained timber pews and wainscoting. Dark stained timber pulpit and organ to north-east end of nave, carved granite font near south-west of interior. Stained timber railing and double-leaf timber gate dividing chancel from nave, decoratively tiled floor to chancel. Set in graveyard enclosed by rubble stone plinth wall supporting decorative wrought-iron railings and double-leaf vehicular gate set to square-plan buttressed ashlar piers.

• Aisling House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former parsonage, built c.1860, with gabled porch to central bay, and two-storey extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Flemish bond chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds, one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, and timber casement window to ground floor rear. Square-headed door opening having moulded render architrave with plinth blocks, and replacement door, with stone steps. Outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof, rendered walls, segmental-headed and square-headed vehicular door openings with battened timber double-leaf doors. Wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gateways to north-west set to fluted cast-iron pier and decorative details. Set within own grounds with garden to south.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace house, built c.1820, of two storeys over basement, with attic floor having two-bay first floor, four-bay ground floor, and two-bay east gable. Pitched slate roof with rendered gable-end chimneystacks and rendered eaves band, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with fixed timber windows to attic floor and timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, six-over-six pane to front ground and first floors, tripartite to first floor, three-over-three pane to basement front, and one-over-one pane to east gable. Square-headed timber panelled door to front, reached by flight of replacement steps over basement area with rendered parapets and metal railings. Outbuildings to rear much modernised or rebuilt.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Boyher, Rockcorry8 sales

Name

Boyher · Buíochar

Area

619,194 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ematris, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Dawsongrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawsongrove electoral division: 752 people in 261 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claraghy, Drumlona, Drummulla, Fairfield Demesne, Glen

Placenames

Boyher 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.