Booleenshare

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Booleenshare, from 20 m² to 245,985 m² (24.6 ha, 60.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 56 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 Booleenshare 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.

• 18 Apr 2024N/a

  TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24163

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  TO ERECT NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ENTRANCE GATES WITH NEW CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AND MAINS WATER SUPPLY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23972

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED AN EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF MY TWO STOREY DWELLING AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221032

• 6 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211401

• 21 Apr 2020Conditional

  TO (A) RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED ON SITE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (B) PERMISSION TO ALTER AND EXTEND THE DWELLING HOUSE ON SITE, CHANGE OF USE OF GROUND FLOOR GARAGE AREA INTO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS; (C) PERMISSION TO CLOSE UP 2ND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO NORTH WEST OF DWELLING HOUSE AND (D) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND INATALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20367

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (1) SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS (2) MILKING COMPLEX, COMPRISING OF PARLOUR,DAIRY, PLANT ROOM, OFFICE, CALF HOUSE (3) DRAFTING AND CATTLE HANDLING AREA (4) MANURE PIT (5) ASSOCIATED CONCRETE YARDS COMPLETE WITH ALL RELEVANT SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2042

• 10 Sept 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AT A SITE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19944

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Booleenshare.

Recorded monuments

• KE014-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 OS map with 'cave' (KE014-021001-) marked in the interior. On the later 1916 map, though it is not marked in, the fieldbanks in the vicinity would appear to indicate a sub-circular enclosure. No visible trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 463. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-021001 Souterrain
  Description

  Marked as 'cave' on the 1842 OS map within the interior of a ringfort (KE014-021----). Not marked on the later 1916 map. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 463. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 October 2013

• KE014-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted on the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a bank and named 'Lisgortarughel' in gothic script. Named 'Lisgortarughel' (site of) on later OS map editions. In pasture, no visible surface trace evident. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 19 December 2013

• KE014-026001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan single- and double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1837. Comprising three-bay double-height nave with lancet arch openings, three-bay single-storey lean-to aisles to east and to west elevations, single-bay double-height transepts to east and to west elevations and single-bay double-height chancel to north gable end. Renovated, 1910, with single-bay three-stage sandstone ashlar entrance tower added to south gable end having battlemented parapet and limestone ashlar hexagonal spire. Nave reroofed and renovated in 1926. Renovated in 1962 with pair of single-bay single-storey flat-roofed chapels added to south-east and to south-west. Pitched artificial slate to nave, with lean-to copper-sheeted roofs to aisles, flat roofs to chapels and having limestone ashlar hexagonal spire. Painted rendered walls. Sandstone ashlar tower with limestone dressings. Three plaques in wall. Paired lancets to aisles with painted surrounds. Render hood mouldings to west wall and transepts. Cruciform-plan interior with aisles, pointed arcades on painted clustered columns, recessed west gallery, open trussed roof to nave and chancel, and stained glass panels c. 1925 to chancel and transepts.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Booleenshare · Buailín Séar

Area

2,209,074 m² (220.91 ha, 545.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyheige, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyheige, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyheige electoral division: 1,446 people in 570 households; 79% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyronan, Caherulla, Dirtane, Dromgower, Glenlea, Heirhill, Knockane, Tiershanaghan

Placenames

Booleenshare 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.