Boulaling
Boulaling is a townland in the civil parish of Cullen (Kinsale Ra), barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Buaile Fhlainn.
- Area
- 96.9 ha
- 240 acres
- Land parcels
- 116
- registered freehold, median 1,006 m²
- Zoning
- G4
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 64
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boulaling, from 22 m² to 175,058 m² (17.51 ha, 43.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
- G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 May 2026Unconditional permission
Permission to construct a first floor gym extension and an external ramp / steps, all to their clubhouse.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1248
3 Sept 2025Conditional permission
Permission for demolition of an existing shed and the construction of a residential development consisting of 50 no. dwelling units (comprising of 17 no. detached, 18 no. semi-detached, and 15 no. terraced units) and all ancillary development works including the provision of a pedestrian footpath and 2 no. speed ramps along Brookdale road (L3207), Boundary treatment, access, parking, and ESB substation, drainage, lighting, landscaping and amenity areas. Access will be via a new entrance on Brookdale Road (L3207) to the south.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5764
6 Aug 2025Unconditional permission
Permission for retention of an extension to the rear of dwelling, raising the pitch of the roof from 19 degrees to 30 degrees, porch to the front elevation and the change of window layout on all elevations of existing dwelling.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5566
24 Feb 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4276
17 Jan 2025Withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4041
13 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a residential development of 7 No. Dwelling Houses in total consisting of 1 No. detached house and 6 No. terraced houses and all necessary site services and ancillary site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5105
22 May 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary wastewater treatment unit, vehicular access via an existing access road to the east of the proposed site, connection to public water mains, with all the necessary & ancillary site works to complete the development
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4919
3 May 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary wastewater treatment unit, vehicular access via an existing access road to the east of the proposed site, connection to public water mains, with all the necessary & ancillary site works to complete the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4808
10 Mar 2023Conditional
Permission to (i) construct a detached single storey domestic garage,(ii) to construct a 3m high block boundary wall on part of the eastern boundary, (iii) to raise the existing boundary wall on the southern boundary to 2.2m high, (iv) to construct a 3m high boundary/retaining wall on part of the western boundary and (v) all associated site works, all to their dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4436
7 Feb 2023Incompleted application
Permission for retention for the raising of the pitch of the roof from 19 degrees to 30 degrees
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4180
28 Jul 2022Conditional
(i) all weather sports pitch (ii) floodlighting to all weather sports pitch (iii) concrete hurling wall (iv) security perimeter fence to all weather sports pitch and (v) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5781
24 Jun 2022Incompleted application
(i) All weather sports pitch (ii) floodlighting to all weather sports pitch (iii) concrete hurling wall (iv) security perimeter fence to all weather sports pitch (v) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5485
2 Feb 2022Withdrawn
Permission is sought for the construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary wastewater treatment unit, vehicular access via an existing lane, connection to public water mains, with all the necessary & ancillary site works to complete the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4203
23 Dec 2021Incompleted application
The construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, secondary wastewater treatment unit, vehicular access via an existing lane, connection to public water mains, with all the necessary & ancillary site works to complete the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7501
26 Feb 2021Conditional
(i) all weather sports pitch, (ii) flood lighting to all weather sports pitch, (iii) concrete hurling wall, (iv) security perimeter fence to all weather sports pitch, and (v) associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4475
6 Jul 2020Refused
The demolition of the existing pub, house and derelict buildings on site and the construction of 17 no. residential dwellings on the site, comprised of: (i) 4 no. two-storey, four-bed, detached houses; (ii) 9 no. three-storey, three-bed, townhouses, and (iii) 4 no. apartments (consisting of 2 no. ground floor, one-bed units with 2 no. two-bed duplexes above), as well as a total of 26 car parking spaces (including proposed on-street parking spaces); private amenity space for each dwelling (rear gardens ranging from 58-227sqm for the houses and private amenity space ranging from 9-13sqm for the apartments); public open space, boundary treatments, a new public pavement, landscaping, bin storage, flood relief works (including stormwater attenuation and provision of a flood conveyance and storage area along a portion of the boundary with the River Stick) and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5379
10 Feb 2020Conditional permission
The construction of a 93-bedroom, two-storey residential care nursing home with a total floor area of 4,465sq.m including all ancillary staff facilities, including a new access road off the R600 road, relocation of traffic island, adjustment to road markings and provision of pedestrian footpath along the entire road frontage, 56 No car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, signage, ancillary site works, including refuse storage areas and below ground water storage and associated pumps (modifications to application permitted under Planning Ref 19/05339) all within lands totalling 1.58Ha. off the R600.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4212
15 Jan 2020Incompleted application
The construction of a 93-bedroom two-storey, residential care nursing home with a total floor area of 4,465sq.m including all ancillary staff facilities, including a new access road off the R600 road and associated upgrade works to junction, 56no. car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, signage, ancillary site works, including refuse storage areas and below ground water storage and associated pumps (modifications to application permitted under planning ref: 19/05339) all within lands totalling 1.41Ha. off the R600.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4032
27 May 2019Conditional
The construction of a 93-bedroom residential care nursing home with a total floor area of 4,465sq.m including all ancillary staff facilities, including a new access road off the R600 road, 56 No car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, signage, ancillary site works, including refuse storage areas (involving modifications to the design of the previously approved nursing home and change to floor area and ridge levels from that permitted under Planning Ref 18/6728) all within lands totalling 1.41Ha. off the R600.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5339
30 Apr 2019Incompleted application
The construction of a 93-bedroom residential care nursing home with a total floor area of 4.465 sq.m including all ancillary staff facilities, including a new access road off the R600 road, 56.No car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, signage, ancillary site works, including refuse storage areas (involving modifications to the design of the previously approved nursing home and change to floor area and ridge levels from that permitted under Planning Ref 18/6278) all within lands totalling 1.41Ha off the R600.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5076
18 May 2018Conditional
The demolition of an existing 243sq.m farm building and residential development for the construction of 57 no. two storey and 2 no. single storey dwelling houses consisting of 11 no. 4/5 bed detached units, 20 no. 4 bed semi detached units, 22 no. 3 bed semi detached units, 2 no. 2 bed single storey semi-detached units 4 no. 2/3 bed terraced unit and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5274
26 Sept 2017Conditional
The demolition of derelict buildings and the construction of 8 no. detached residential houses and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6491
20 Sept 2017Unconditional
Construction of an 88-bed residential care nursing home, including maintenance store, access to Kinsale Road, associated parking, roadways, landscaping, boundary treatments, connections to public services and associated ancillary works - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. 12/6360
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/6423
29 Sept 2016Conditional
Demolish an existing bungalow, construct a detached two storey dwellinghouse, detached shed/study in the rear garden and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6414
8 Sept 2016Unconditional
Retention of attic conversion to bedroom, Velux roof window to front and rear, and Permission to construct bay window extension to front, all to existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6238
The 25 most recent of 64 applications.
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 Boulaling.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boulaling.
Architectural heritage
- Vent pipe, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron vent-pipe, erected c.1880, having decorative pedestal comprising of moulded plinth with cast-iron door, fluted shaft and cornice supporting replacement fibreglass column with cast-iron decorative cowling and metal mesh.
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 Boulaling, 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 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 Boulaling.
- 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
- Boulaling, Riverstick5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Boulaling · Buaile Fhlainn
- Area
- 969,443 m² (96.94 ha, 239.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cullen (Kinsale Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Cullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 584 people lived in 179 households in the Cullen electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvragnosig, Corruragh, Cullen, Curra, Glinny
- Placenames
- Boulaling 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.