# Boleythomas, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbegnet, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Buaile Thomáis. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 969,878 m² (96.99 ha, 239.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,575 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbegnet, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilbegnet.md - Barony: Ballymoe - Electoral division: Creggs, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18962 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60611 - Centre: latitude 53.568775, longitude -8.420339 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleythomas, from 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) to 145,939 m² (14.59 ha, 36.06 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1926027: 145,939 m² (14.59 ha, 36.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926027.md - Parcel 1926030: 134,009 m² (13.4 ha, 33.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926030.md - Parcel 1972305: 124,163 m² (12.42 ha, 30.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972305.md - Parcel 1972309: 120,355 m² (12.04 ha, 29.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972309.md - Parcel 1972307: 82,313 m² (8.23 ha, 20.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972307.md - Parcel 1972308: 75,690 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972308.md - Parcel 1972306: 60,500 m² (6.05 ha, 14.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972306.md - Parcel 1926023: 49,684 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926023.md - Parcel 1972310: 43,466 m² (4.35 ha, 10.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972310.md - Parcel 1926028: 34,800 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926028.md - Parcel 1926026: 28,842 m² (2.88 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926026.md - Parcel 1926029: 22,820 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926029.md - Parcel 1926024: 17,559 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926024.md - Parcel 1972311: 15,724 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972311.md - Parcel 2373450: 12,305 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373450.md - Parcel 1926025: 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926025.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Boleythomas in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 27 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2085: Conditional. Permission. to develop an existing entrance and upgrade it to forestry harvesting standard (bell mouth entrance) onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantation together with internal access road and turning head and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2085/0 - 24 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2078: Conditional. Permission. to construct a bell mouth entrance onto public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation together with internal access road to forestry and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2078/0 - 25 Jan 2018, Galway County Council 1858: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of two forest access roads and two entrances.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/1858/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boleythomas. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA032-010: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA032-010----. In level grassland bordered by a stream to S which marks a B. boundary. Linear unenclosed CBG (E-W 40.5m, N-S 3.2m) cut by a field wall near E end. Within it are numerous set stones of sandstone and shale, indicating graves oriented E-W. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) depicts it as having been c. 95m in length. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boleythomas. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Boleythomas, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boleythomas. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleythomas.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleythomas.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleythomas.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Boleythomas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Camderry: https://everytownland.com/galway/camderry.md - Kilclogh: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilclogh.md - Leaha: https://everytownland.com/galway/leaha.md - Tallavnamraher: https://everytownland.com/galway/tallavnamraher.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleythomas - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/boleythomas