Boihy

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boihy, from 65 m² to 246,444 m² (24.64 ha, 60.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Boihy 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.

• 6 Dec 2024Conditional

  •The conversion of the existing National Inventory of Architectural Heritage school building into 2no. dwellings, •The refurbishment of the existing school building, •The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the building, •The decommissioning of an existing septic tank and replacement with new waste water treatment system with tertiary treatment system and Infiltration treatment area, •All associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460255

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  construction of private garage

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360011

• 28 Mar 2023N/a

  construction of private garage

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2339

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE011-048 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35m) described as a fort on the 1835 ed. and as a hachured feature on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a low hill on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley. It is not visible at ground level, although it may survive in an area of dense scrub. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 18 April, 2016

• LE011-074 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Marked only on the 1943 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the bottom of a SW-facing slope on the floor of the Bonet River valley, with a small tributary of the river c. 130m to the W. This is a grass-covered, kidney-shaped, stony mound (dims 10.5m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SE; H 0.2-0.6m) which has a trough area (dims 3.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW) at the NW side. See the attached view from the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley, with the stream c. 160m to the ESE at a point where it turns from a NE-SW course to NW-SE. This is a grass-covered oval platform (dims 38m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.25m) with bushes, and a short section of earthen bank (L 8m; Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.6m) at NNE. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-113 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Located at the peak at the SW end of the summit ridge (L c. 500m NE-SW) of Benbo Mountain at a point where three townlands meet. A circular cairn (diam. 6m; H 0.2m) is protruding through peat with a conical cairn (diam. 2.5m; H 1m) built on top of it as a boundary cairn. Cairn (LE011-114----) is further down the SW-facing slope of the ridge, c. 670m to the SW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Kilcoosey National School, school, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school, built c.1913, with gabled entrance porch to front elevation. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls with date plaque to porch. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Two timber battened doors to porch. Random coursed stone wall divides rear yard. Public conveniences to rear yard. Random coursed wall and wrought-iron gates to front of site.

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 Boihy, about 1 in 5 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 Boihy.

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 Boihy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Boihy · Bóithigh

Area

3,585,127 m² (358.51 ha, 885.9 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlease, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Cloonlogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

310 people lived in 128 households in the Cloonlogher electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghameelta Barr, Carrigeencor, Cloonaquin, Gortgarrigan, Gortnaskeagh, Killenna Glebe, Morerah

Placenames

Boihy 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.