Boley

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley, from 338 m² to 257,303 m² (25.73 ha, 63.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Boley 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.

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  for retention of existing domestic garage and combined entrance accessing lands to rear

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460432

• 11 Sept 2024N/a

  for Retention of existing domestic garage and combined entrance accessing lands to rear at Boley, Ballinamore, Co Cavan. H41 XT22

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2460426

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  for alteration and extension to existing bungalow. Works include demolition of existing attached shed and porch and construction of detached domestic garage, connection to existing site services and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20599

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct an extension - living room/dining room to one side of existing bungalow and dressing room/en-suite on the other, close existing vehicular entrance and construct new entrance and driveway, replace front boundary wall with fence and extend site boundary to the back and north western side and connect to all existing associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18561

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 Boley.

Recorded monuments

• CV013-072 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Blackwater Bridge, bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road-bridge, built c.1850, spanning Blackwater River. Abutment walls and soffit of squared and coursed stone, segmental arch ring of smooth regular voussoirs, square coursed spandrel walls and parapet, low square-edged coping to parapet with punched dressing and square parapet ends.

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 Boley.

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 Boley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Boley

Area

1,357,839 m² (135.78 ha, 335.53 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Ballymagauran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymagauran electoral division: 236 people in 95 households; 87% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagunleog, Glebe (Co. Leitrim), Gortaclogher, Gowlagh South, Killyran, Killywillin, Owengallees, Stranadarragh

Placenames

Boley 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.