Boherboy
Boherboy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilvemnon, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Bóthar Buí.
- Area
- 439.1 ha
- 1,085 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 13,122 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherboy, from 66 m² to 1,284,141 m² (128.41 ha, 317.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Boherboy 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 Boherboy 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
- Natural Heritage Area: Slievenamon Bog NHA 002388
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherboy.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, with windbreak and re-built north-east end bay. Pitched thatched roof with raised decoratively-scolloped ridge and dressed limestone chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls with buttresses to south-west elevation. Square-headed openings with barred timber six-over-three pane sliding sash, nine-pane casement and having margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with concrete sills to north-east bay and south-west gable. Square-headed timber battened half-door set in windbreak protected by projection of thatch of main roof. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding having pitched slate roof and painted rubble limestone walls to south, forming L-shaped yard with house.
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 Boherboy, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boherboy.
- 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 Boherboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Boherboy · An Bóthar Buí
- Area
- 4,391,270 m² (439.13 ha, 1,085.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilvemnon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Anner, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 402 people lived in 136 households in the Anner electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonlahy, Glennaskagh, Gurteen (Bryan), Kylatlea, Kylawilling, Rossane, Tinnakilly
- Placenames
- Boherboy 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.