Boley

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley, from 112 m² to 253,217 m² (25.32 ha, 62.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Boley 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.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  PROVIDE A NEW SPECTATOR FENCE AND WALKING TRACK AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE EXISTING PLAYING FIELD, ERECTING LIGHTING AROUND THE WALKING TRACK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560892

• 12 Dec 2025N/a

  THE PROVISION OF A NEW SPECTATOR FENCE AND WALKING TRACK AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE EXISTING PLAYING FIELD, ERECTING LIGHTING AROUND THE WALKING TRACK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560848

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  retain the conversion of an existing two storey farm outbuilding into two separate three-bedroom, two-storey living units and planning permission is sought for a septic tank and percolation area to serve said living units and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560637

• 17 Feb 2025Conditional

  part demolish and alter existing dwelling house 2. Proposed extension and alteration to existing dwelling house 3. Retain existing Vehicular access 4. Connection to existing septic tank and percolation area, new private well and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560076

• 13 Feb 2025N/a

  1. Part demolition and alteration of the existing dwelling house 2. Proposed extension and alteration to existing dwelling house 3. Retain existing Vehicular access 4. Connection to existing septic tank and percolation area, new private well and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560073

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary sewage treatment system with polishing filter and entrance , as previously granted (Ref no 20/716

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2488

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  construct agriculture welding workshop and 4 vehicle parking spaces. Retention permission for hardcore surface on part of the site and also entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22207

• 31 Dec 2021N/a

  construct four bay agriculture welding workshop, parking area and access to site though existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21923

• 31 Dec 2020Conditional

  change house design as previously granted (ref. no. 18/737), construct septic tank with secondary treatment system, domestic garage, car port and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20716

• 11 Dec 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank with secondary treatment system and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18737

• 7 Nov 2018N/a

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with secondary treatment system and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18677

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  construct and extension (extend Kitchen) to the rear of our dwelling , planning for the change of use of part of existing garage to facilitate the relocation of utility and toilet. Permission to construct a link between the two buildings, permission to alter the style of the existing bay windows and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17271

• 3 Jan 2017Conditional

  retain detached garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 172

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Nore/Abbeyleix Woods Complex 002076

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boley.

Architectural heritage

• Farmleigh, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c. 1820. Detached two-storey outbuilding, c. 1820, to site. Group of detached outbuildings, c. 1980, to site. Remainder of estate (including house) demolished with site cleared. Artist Francis Bacon lived here for a short while with his grandmother, Winifred Margaret Supple.

• Fruit Lawn, house, 1790–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Georgian house, c. 1800. Stable complex to site. Now derelict.

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 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.

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.

• Boley, Abbeyleix8 sales

Name

Boley · An Bhuaile

Area

3,074,405 m² (307.44 ha, 759.7 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyleix, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Abbeyleix, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeyleix electoral division: 2,979 people in 1,145 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyleix Demesne, Boley Lower, Boley Upper, Clonoghil, Derrylahan, Knapton, Poormansbridge, Tullyroe

Placenames

Boley 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.