Bohalas

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bohalas, from 20 m² to 195,378 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bohalas 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.

• 28 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for: one new 1.5 storey domestic dwelling c/w waste water treatment system to EN.12566-3 (P.I.A. approved) with associated percolation area with new entrance driveway, entrance gate piers and wing walls, and connection to water mains including all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22628

• 1 Nov 2022N/a

  Permission for: One new 1.5 storey domestic dwelling c/w waste water treatment system to EN12566-3 P.I.A. approved associated percolation area, with new entrance driveway, entrance gate piers and wing walls, and connection to water mains, including all other associated site works as required at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22586

• 21 Oct 2022N/a

  Permission for one new 1.5 storey domestic dwelling c/w waste water treatment system to EN. 12566-3 P.I.A approved, associated percolation area, with new entrance driveway, entrance gate and piers and wing walls, and connection to water mains including all other associated site works as required at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22569

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 Bohalas.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 18m NE-SW; 16m NW-SE) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.2m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m) NW-E-SW. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and it is truncated slightly by a N-S field wall at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) with a cave (RO008C014002-) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 64), but only the cave is marked on the 1915 ed. of the map. Situated on a slight knoll, no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C014002 Souterrain
  Description

  Marked as a cave within the possible rath (RO008C014001-) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 64), but only the cave is marked on the 1915 ed. of the map. Situated on a slight knoll, no feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C015001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the crest of the S-facing slope of a broad E-W spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 6m generally to 9m at N; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m at N) with some scrub, but facing stones are only visible at S (original Wth 2.3m). There is no visible entrance, and an E-W field wall is built on the stone spread NNW-NNE. A berm (Wth 1.6m at N to 5m at S) separates the inner from an outer wall visible as a grass-covered or overgrown stone spread (Wth 0.8-3.5m; H 0.1-0.3m) which is interrupted at NE, SE, SW and NW. Souterrain (RO008C015002-), is at the centre, and standing stone (RO008C032----) is c. 15m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C015002 Souterrain
  Description

  At the centre of cashel (RO008C015001-). Marked on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as a 'Cave' on both, it was visible as a single lintel on the surface (Gannon 1972), but this is no longer evident. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C032 Standing stone
  Description

  At the crest of a S-facing slope, c. 15m SW of cashel (RO008C015001-). Rectangular limestone block oriented N-S (dims 1.1m N-S; 0.5m E-W; H 0.9m). 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 Bohalas.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Bohalas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Bohalas · Bothailios

Area

2,002,949 m² (200.29 ha, 494.94 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bockagh, Cashelard, Cashelcolaun, Currinah, Hawksford, Kilkeeran, Kilvanloon, Pollboy, Tonregee

Placenames

Bohalas 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.