Boloona

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Boloona, from 596,941 m² (59.69 ha, 147.51 acres) to 596,941 m² (59.69 ha, 147.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Boloona 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Boloona 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL005-106 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In a slight hollow on high elevated pasture, within a mulitperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Listed as a ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A poorly surviving and largely rebuilt, roughly rectangular, cashel (34m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an externally faced wall (Wth 0.4-0.6m; H 0.2-6m). A hut site (CL005-106001-) with a lintelled roof is built onto the exterior near the W end of the N wall. A later wall is built on most of the cashel perimeter. Field walls, some of which may be of antiquity, radiate off from each corner. This is no. 7 of Bowmer’s (2019) list of 66 rectilinear cashels in the Burren. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 21 February 2023

• CL005-106001 Hut site
  Description

  Abutting the external W end of the N wall of a cashel (CL005-106----). A roughly square hut (diam. c. 2m) defined by a wall (T 0.6m; H up to 1.1m) with a partly blocked entrance (Wth 0.55m) facing the cashel. Six lintels criss-cross the roof and the base of the interior is filled with rubble. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 February 2023

• CL005-247 Enclosure
  Description

  High on the SE slopes of Ailwee Hill and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a bank and visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Boloona, about 1 in 5 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 Boloona.

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.

No address of the register names Boloona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Boloona

Area

597,309 m² (59.73 ha, 147.6 acres)

Civil parish

Oughtmama, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Oughtmama, the unit of the census

Census 2022

152 people lived in 59 households in the Oughtmama electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aillwee, Deelin More, Garracloon, Gleninsheen, Poulbaun

Placenames

Boloona 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.