Bodorragha
Townland in the civil parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 81.6 ha
- 202 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,011 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bodorragha, from 37 m² to 153,820 m² (15.38 ha, 38.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bodorragha 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
No planning application touches the townland of Bodorragha 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.
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 Bodorragha.
Recorded monuments
- RO004-022001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Visible as a slight feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 213-2), and situated on the summit of a slight rise. Oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, but there is a local tradition of a cave in the interior which may be a souterrain (RO004-022002-). Rath (RO004-021----) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO004-022002 Souterrain
Description
Situated on the summit of a slight rise. There is a local tradition of a cave in the interior of rath (RO004-022001-) which may be a souterrain. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO004-023 Sweathouse
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E-facing slope of a drumlin against the S face of a field bank. It is c. 75m NE of a farmstead and there is an E-W stream immediately N of the field bank. This is a stone-filled rectangular depression (dims 2.3m N-S; 2m E-W; max. D 1.2m) which had its original entrance at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bodorragha.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bodorragha.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bodorragha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Bodorragha
- Area
- 816,355 m² (81.64 ha, 201.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Aghafin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghafin electoral division: 142 people in 52 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafin, Annacloghan, Cuilkeel, Mullaun
- Placenames
- Bodorragha 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.