Boher

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boher, from 352 m² to 305,901 m² (30.59 ha, 75.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Boher 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.

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of a mechanical aeration system with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211732

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 Boher.

Recorded monuments

• TN025-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a poorly drained NW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby fulacht fiadh (TN025-052) to the N. A raised circular platform defined by a scarp (H 1.3-2m) and outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.3m) with external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m). Site covered in dense vegetation making detailed examination impossible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the NW slope of a low rise of ground in a poorly drained upland area. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 22m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.3m) reduced to a scarp in places and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). Possible destroyed entrance gap at E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-059 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained land in an upland area with a stream nearby to the W. An aerial photograph (GSIAP, R 112/3) shows the outline of a possible circular enclosure. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a low natural rise of ground in an upland area. A D-shaped area (diam. 24m NW-SE) with straight side at SE (L. 23m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) reduced to a scarp in places with possible destroyed entrance at SE. Traces of a shallow external fosse best preserved at NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 32m approx.) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1-1.3m) with slight traces of a shallow external fosse. Possible entrance gap (Wth 6m) at E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the Kilmastulla River to the S in an upland area. Only the W half of the site survives from S through to N consisting of a semicircular area (diam. c. 21m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank mainly reduced to scarp (H 2m) and shallow external fosse which has been partly filled in. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-063 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a SE slope of rising ground overlooking a river with a ringfort (TN025-064) to the E. The barely discernible outline of a destroyed enclosure (diam. 35m approx.) with an external fosse visible only at E where the site survives as a field boundary. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN025-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the Kilmastulla River to the S with enclosure site (TN025-063) to the W. A raised circular area (diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 2m) and wide external fosse (Wth 6m; D 1.5m) with possible causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Boher.

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 Boher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Boher · An Bóthar

Area

1,796,043 m² (179.6 ha, 443.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmastulla, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Greenhall, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteenoe, Ballyea South, Cappadine, Inchadrinagh, Killalane, Kilmastulla

Placenames

Boher 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.