Boranaraltry
Boranaraltry is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltiernan, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Buaile an Araltaigh.
- Area
- 258.8 ha
- 639 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 1,324 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Objective G
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boranaraltry, from 4 m² to 1,446,318 m² (144.63 ha, 357.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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
- G3Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No.1), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 86 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
6 Jun 2026Grant permission for retention
The retention of a one storey to two-and-a-half storey domestic extension and t
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0420/WEB
22 Jul 2020Grant permission
Permission to construct a 36 meter multi-user
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D20A/0508
4 Jun 2020Grant permission & grant retention
1. Retention Permission is sought for site excavation
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D20A/0383
5 Jun 2019Withdraw the application
Retention permission and permission is sought for 1) Retention permission
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D19A/0377
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boranaraltry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boranaraltry.
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 Boranaraltry, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boranaraltry.
- 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
No address of the register names Boranaraltry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Boranaraltry · Buaile an Araltaigh
- Area
- 2,587,907 m² (258.79 ha, 639.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltiernan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Glencullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 23,596 people lived in 7,893 households in the Glencullen electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrack, Cloon (Co. Wicklow), Glencullen Mountain, Glendoo, Oldboleys (Co. Wicklow), Tonygarrow (Co. Wicklow)
- Placenames
- Boranaraltry 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.