Boherquill
Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Bóthar an Choill
Parcel 106652
- Area
- 203,381 m² (20.34 ha, 50.26 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 1,248 m² on the ground
- 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
- Boherquill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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.
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM002-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle SW slope of a low natural rise of poorly drained pasture with bog to the N. Heavily overgrown circular area (diam. 32m) defined by two tree-lined earthen banks with intervening water-logged fosse, a wide gap at NE may have been the original entrance that was later widened when the enclosing banks at this side were levelled. At SE a modern field fence running NE-SW cuts between the two banks. The interior is boggy and supports some rushes. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2016
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).
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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
- 70.6 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 6,906 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherquill, from 258 m² to 150,555 m² (15.06 ha, 37.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Boherquill 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
25 Sept 2025Conditional
development which will consist of permission for the change of use and conversion of the existing garage (41.4 sq m) for residential use. The proposed conversion will consist of storage, snug area, utility room and WC. Permission is also sought to construct a one-storey extension (20.1 sq m) to the rear (west) of the existing dwelling to join the dwelling and the proposed converted garage, and all associated site works at the above address. Retention permission is also sought for the existing storage shed (19 sq m) located in the west corner of the site, to the rear of the existing garage
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560473
23 Aug 2025Refused
to erect a new dwelling, construct a detached garage, install a secondary wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter, connect to the existing services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560423
1 Aug 2025N/a
Planning permission to erect a new dwelling with services and associated site works including garage
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560383
8 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to construct bungalow dwelling(228.4 sqm) and a domestic garage(33.8 sqm) Permission is sought for a new domestic entrance onto public roadway and for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21178
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 Boherquill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherquill.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay T-plan Roman Catholic chapel, built c.1812, extended c.1869 with the addition of a chancel and sacristy to the east. Altered c.1932. Modern single-bay single-storey entrance porch to entrance gable (west) and single-bay porches to west faces of transepts with cement crenellations over. Cut stone date plaque above entrance porch to west gable. Pitched natural slate roof (re-roofed c.1932) with overhanging bracketed eaves. Raised rendered verges to gable ends having cross finials to apexes and rendered kneeler stones to ends. Smooth cement rendered walls over projecting chamfered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with hoodmouldings over to nave and gable ends of transepts (north and south). Quatrefoil opening to entrance gable (west). Stained glass windows throughout. Set back from road with forecourt to the west with freestanding cast-iron belfry to the rear (east). Located to the north of Streete. Associated parochial house to the north.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boherquill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Boherquill · Bóthar an Choill
- Area
- 705,787 m² (70.58 ha, 174.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Street, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Boherquill, the unit of the census
- Placenames
- Boherquill on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.