Boley Lower

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley Lower, from 156 m² to 786,084 m² (78.61 ha, 194.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Lower 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.

• 6 May 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660258

• 27 Apr 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to my existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660238

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to my existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660230

• 20 Sept 2023Conditional

  Change of house and garage type from that previously granted on plg file no. 21/753 and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360385

• 21 Jan 2022Conditional

  construct a two storey with a single storey element dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2227

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house with granny flat, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21753

• 10 Aug 2020Conditional

  retain shed as built and permission to complete same

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20408

• 6 Aug 2020N/a

  retention permission for shed as built and permission to complete same

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20403

• 10 Apr 2018Conditional

  retain shed as built

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18217

• 27 Feb 2018N/a

  retain shed as built

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18111

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  renovate and extend existing dwelling house, the proposed work to consist of demolishing existing southern end of the dwelling house, construct a two storey extension, construct a porch to the front with wheelchair access to both doors, close existing side entrance and open two new entrances, upgrade existing septic tank and install a new polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1870

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter and bored well as well as new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17513

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

• LA023-025 Church
  Description

  Reference to church and ancient burial ground (LA023-025001-) here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 338). Situated on a ridge. Remains of a nave and chancel church survive, built of roughly coursed limestone, with a narrow slit ope in E gable and doorway in S wall. No other features visible. Described by Comerford as 'The ruins of the old church are still to be seen in the present townland of Boley, surrounded by an ancient burial-ground (LA023-025001-). In the old Taxation of the Diocese of Leighlin the Vicarage of Shankyll (old church) is valued at £3 6s. 8d., one of the most highly valued in the list' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 338). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA023-025001 Graveyard
  Description

  Reference to church (LA023-025) and ancient burial ground here (Comerford, Rev M. 1883-86, 338). Remains of an undivided nave and chancel built of roughly coursed limestone. Remains of doorway in South wall. No other features visible. Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 63m N-S; 43m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with church in centre. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Poorman's Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch limestone road bridge over river Nore, c. 1770, with triangular cut-waters.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Boley Lower.

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 Boley Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Boley Lower · An Bhuaile Íochtarach

Area

1,717,783 m² (171.78 ha, 424.47 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, 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

Boley, Boley Upper, Cappanacloghy, Poormansbridge, Shanahoe

Placenames

Boley Lower 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.