Boggan
Boggan is a townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Bogán.
Parcel 810848
- Area
- 10,984 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Boggan
Planning applications on this parcel
27 Jan 2020Conditional
as built A-frame type building for use as a gamesroom and storage for purposes ancillary to the existing dwelling and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2018
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 201.6 ha
- 498 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,258 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boggan, from 323 m² to 324,379 m² (32.44 ha, 80.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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
No zone of a development plan covers Boggan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Feb 2026N/a
the construction of an extension to existing dwelling and all associated works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660021
5 Aug 2020Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling house with detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20265
13 Jul 2020N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling house with detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20229
27 Jan 2020Conditional
as built A-frame type building for use as a gamesroom and storage for purposes ancillary to the existing dwelling and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2018
8 Mar 2017Conditional
Full planning permission for the construction of an agricultural building to include; 4 loose boxes, a storage area and a small veterinary clinic (for out of hours services) and all associated site works including a roadside sign, and all associated ancillary site development works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1768
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boggan.
Recorded monuments
- CW017-054001 Enclosure
Description
Two circular cropmarks (see also CW017-054002-) visible on an aerial photograph taken by Michael Moore on the 21 July 1996 (MM (64) 0). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 24 January 2012
- CW017-054002 Enclosure
Description
Two circular cropmarks (see also CW017-054001-) visible on an aerial photograph taken by Michael Moore on the 21 July 1996 (MM (64) 0). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 24 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boggan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Boggan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boggan.
- 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 Boggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Boggan · An Bogán
- Area
- 2,016,396 m² (201.64 ha, 498.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 458 people lived in 164 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Closh, Commons, Kilbride, Knockdoorish, Milltown, Sherwoodpark, Sragh
- Placenames
- Boggan 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.