Boolakeel

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolakeel, from 106 m² to 150,846 m² (15.08 ha, 37.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Boolakeel 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 Boolakeel 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 Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA 004154

Recorded monuments

• KE097-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 16.2m N-S, 15m E-W This small univallate rath is located in pasture on the NW side of Boolakeel Creek and overlooks Ballinskelligs Bay. Its earthen enclosing element measures 1.1m high and 1.3m wide and is virtually levelled on its N side. A 1m wide gap at E may mark the location of the original entrance. The site is densely overgrown and no internal features were observed. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 470. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Boolakeel.

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boolakeel.

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 Boolakeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Boolakeel · Buaile Uí Chuill

Area

803,768 m² (80.38 ha, 198.62 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Ballinskelligs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinskelligs electoral division: 419 people in 172 households; 79% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinskelligs, Canuig, Kildreelig

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Boolakeel 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.