Bohermore

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohermore, from 169 m² to 302,508 m² (30.25 ha, 74.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Bohermore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bohermore 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 the townland of Bohermore.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed from ENE-E-S by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; H 0.4m). Elsewhere the outline is defined by modern field boundaries. The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the presence of a shallow external fosse. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise on a W-facing slope. This rath has been largely levelled. Extant remains comprise a raised circular area (diam. c. 50m) enclosed from E-SE-S by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; max. H 0.2m). Elsewhere the delimiting element is a poorly defined, low scarp. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front elevation (south) and single-bay single-storey shed/outbuilding attached to the east gable end. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to windbreak with rendered coping and cornice. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to windbreak porch having replacement sheet plywood door. Attached outbuilding to east elevation having random rubble limestone walls and corrugated-metal roof. Set in own grounds and aligned at a right-angle to road alignment. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and a pair of hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates. Located in the rural landscape a short distance to the north of Ardagh.

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 Bohermore, 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 Bohermore.

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.

• Bohermore, Ardagh10 sales

Name

Bohermore · An Bóthar Mór

Area

1,035,745 m² (103.57 ha, 255.94 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 265 households in the Ardagh East electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh Demesne, Deerpark, Drumbaun, Finnaragh, Moyra and Fortmill, Oldtown

Placenames

Bohermore 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.