Boherstooka
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyanne, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Barr Stuaice
- Area
- 69.1 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 8,694 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherstooka, from 212 m² to 166,219 m² (16.62 ha, 41.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Boherstooka 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
19 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a steel framed building for the storage of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241587
16 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and all associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210555
18 Feb 2020N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF LANDS TO ELV STORAGE AREA AND METAL RECYCLIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200193
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 Boherstooka.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boherstooka.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boherstooka.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Boherstooka.
- 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 Boherstooka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Boherstooka · Barr Stuaice
- Area
- 690,820 m² (69.08 ha, 170.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyanne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ballyanne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyanne electoral division: 793 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyanne, Bolacaheer, Gobbinstown, Rathgaroge
- Placenames
- Boherstooka 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.