Boley Little
Townland in the civil parish of Fontstown, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Bhuaile Bheag
- Area
- 102.1 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,632 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley Little, from 78 m² to 354,325 m² (35.43 ha, 87.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Boley Little 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 May 2025Conditional
of detached domestic garage
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2593
8 May 2025N/a
of detached domestic garage
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2587
12 Nov 2024Refused
for a granny flat to the side of existing dwelling and all ancillary siteworks
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24352
7 Nov 2024N/a
for a granny flat to the side of the existing dwelling and all ancillary siteworks
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24345
22 Sept 2023Refused
a serviced timber chalet used for habitable purpose for a period of 5 year so construction of previously approved family flat extension can be completed to the main dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23913
12 Oct 2021Conditional
for the construction of a detached one and half storey house, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, septic tank and percolation area, all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211476
25 Jun 2021Refused
construction of a detached two storey/one and half storey house with single storey element, domestic garage, recessed entrance, septic tank and percolation area all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21934
16 Sept 2019Conditional
construct a granny flat to the side of the existing dwelling and all ancillary siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191034
6 Oct 2017Conditional
a single storey family flat extension to side and rear of existing single storey cottage, demolition of existing extension to side and rear of existing single storey cottage, new Aswa flow waste water treatment system & polishing filter, forming of new recessed entrance and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171104
1 Feb 2017Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, minor alterations to existing front facade, new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1799
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- KD031-011 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope in tillage. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 22) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 40m N-S c. 35m E-W), with a possible triangular enclosure (est. L c. 40m N-S) attached at N. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD031-012----) lies c. 20m to the S. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 01 October 2013
- KD031-012 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope in tillage. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 22) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m) with a possible smaller rectangular field attached at S. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD031-011----) lies c. 20m to the N. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 01 October 2013
Architectural heritage
- P. Conlan, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1880, on a corner site retaining early fenestration. Extended, c.1950, comprising three-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to south-west to accommodate part commercial use. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to return behind parapet wall. Materials not visible. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered dressings including corner strips and band to eaves. Roughcast parapet wall to return with moulded cornice. Rendered fascia to return and rendered panelled strips to side elevation to south-west. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered sill course to first floor. 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Moulded rendered architrave. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Concrete sills to return. Rendered surrounds. Timber casement windows. Moulded surround to door opening. Glazed timber panelled door. Road fronted on a corner site.
- Post box, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1870, with "VR" royal cipher and raised crown motif. Set within stone roughcast wall of former forge.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Boley Little.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boley Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Boley Little · An Bhuaile Bheag
- Area
- 1,021,285 m² (102.13 ha, 252.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fontstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Fontstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fontstown electoral division: 456 people in 144 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardellis Lower, Boley Great, Boleybeg, Derrynine, Fontstown Lower, Gorteen Lower, Gorteen Upper, Youngstown
- Placenames
- Boley Little 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.