Boeeshil

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boeeshil, from 145 m² to 182,283 m² (18.23 ha, 45.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Boeeshil 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 Boeeshil 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 Boeeshil.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-046 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin with wide views over Lough Gardice NE-SW, although the view is more restricted in other directions. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (int. diam. 88.8m E-W; 87.5m N-S) defined by a hedge-covered earthen bank (at E: Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m-0.9m; ext. H 1.6m-1.8m) and an outer drain (at E: Wth of base 1m; ext. D 0.6m-0.8m) NE-S-NNW, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere. There is a modern entrance (Wth 5.5m) at SE. 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

• LE025-048001 Moated site
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope c. 50m from the N shore of what was an oval bay (dims c. 600m NW-SE; c. 450m NE-SW) opening at SE into the W end of Gardice Lough before the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal lowered the general levels of the lake and altered its shore. This is a grass-covered subrectangular area (int. dims 30.5m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2m) and outer fosse or moat (Wth of top 5.5m; max. D 1m) at NW, a fosse or moat (Wth of top 5.5m; D 0.3-0.5m) at SE, a bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) at NE and a scarp (H 0.5-1m) at SW, but the NE and SW sides may have been truncated. 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

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

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 Boeeshil, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Boeeshil · An Bhoth Íseal

Area

875,850 m² (87.59 ha, 216.43 acres)

Civil parish

Drumreilly, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Garadice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 237 households in the Garadice electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmakeegan, Drumcullion, Drumlonan, Garadice

Placenames

Boeeshil 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.