Boley Upper

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley Upper, from 17 m² to 391,519 m² (39.15 ha, 96.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Upper 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660530

• 27 Apr 2026Conditional

  demolish an existing garage, the erection of a single storey extension to the side of, internal and external modifications to, the existing single storey dwelling, a garage, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660235

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  demolish an existing garage, the erection of a single storey extension to the side of, internal and external modifications to, the existing single storey dwelling, a garage, and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660228

• 11 Jan 2023Conditional

  develop Phase I of an overall residential development of 136 dwellings plus Creche / work Hub. Phase I to consist of 87 dwellings to include: 22 No. Type A -- three bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 22 No. Type B -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 8 No. Type C/CI -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 2 No. blocks Type D - each block containing 2 No. two bedroom two storey townhouses plus 2 No. two bedroom own door access apartments, 2 No. Type F -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 1 No. block Type G -- containing 4 No. two bedroom two storey townhouses plus 4 No. two bedroom own door access apartments, 12 No. Type H -- three bedroom two storey town houses, plus a Creche / work Hub with 1 No. one bedroom apartment and 4 No. two bedroom apartments at first floor level. New site entrance from Leighlin Road, all landscaping and site enclosures plus all associated site works at Crossneen, Carlow, Co. Laois. A N.I.S. (Natura Impact Statement) has been submitted with the application and is available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy

  Permission, 82 homes · Laois County Council, 233

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  retain storage shed as constructed and applying for full planning permission for proposed machinery & scaffolding storage shed and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22761

• 20 Dec 2022N/a

  develop Phase I of an overall residential development of 136 dwellings plus Creche / work Hub. Phase I to consist of 87 dwellings to include: 22 No. Type A -- three bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 22 No. Type B -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 8 No. Type C/CI -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 2 No. blocks Type D - each block containing 2 No. two bedroom two storey townhouses plus 2 No. two bedroom own door access apartments, 2 No. Type F -- four bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings, 1 No. block Type G -- containing 4 No. two bedroom two storey townhouses plus 4 No. two bedroom own door access apartments, 12 No. Type H -- three bedroom two storey town houses, plus a Creche / work Hub with 1 No. one bedroom apartment and 4 No. two bedroom apartments at first floor level. New site entrance from Leighlin Road, all landscaping and site enclosures plus all associated site works at Crossneen, Carlow, Co. Laois.A N.I.S. (Natura Impact Statement) has been submitted with the application and is available for inspection.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22762

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  A) construct a silage slab; B) construct a roofed feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tanks adjacent to existing loose sheds and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22272

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house with new site entrance along with new driveway, waste water treatment area & garage / shed together with all associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21696

• 7 Oct 2021N/a

  construct a new dwelling house with new site entrance along with new driveway, waste water treatment area & garage / shed together with all associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21691

• 15 Mar 2021Refused

  construct a new dwelling house with driveway, waste water treatment area & garage / shed together with all associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21156

• 27 Jul 2020Conditional

  construct a slurry cattle house including underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary works and services.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20384

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  demolish dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank and construct a replacement two story house, domestic garage, install a proprietary waste water treatment system, polishing filter, close existing entrance and open new entrance and all ancillary and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18257

• 4 Jul 2017Conditional

  erect a 4 bedroom bungalow style dwelling house, including garage, waste water treatment, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17351

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 Boley Upper.

Recorded monuments

• LA023-020001 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of subcircular enclosures and linear features (LA023-02002-) visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, APA 30-1). No visible surface remains. 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

• LA023-020002 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Cropmark of linear features, close to enclosure site (LA023-020001-) visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, APA 30-1). No visible surface remains. 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

• LA023-023 Enclosure
  Description

  A subcircular enclosure marked on the 1890 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Remains of a scarp at NE and E may represent the line of the enclosure. No other visible surface remains. 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

• LA023-024 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m), on high ground overlooking surrounding area, defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 5.3m, ext. D c. 1.9m) and external fosse (Wth c. 7.7m, ext. D c. 0.9m). Now very degraded at S. No evidence of original entrance. 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

• LA023-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map only. Situated in gently undulating countryside. A circular area (max. diam. c. 40m N-S) defined by a low barely discernible bank (H c. 0.3m). No other visible surface remains. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Upper.

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

Name

Boley Upper · An Bhuaile Uachtarach

Area

2,427,249 m² (242.72 ha, 599.79 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Clash, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clash electoral division: 372 people in 122 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygeehin Lower, Boley, Boley Lower, Clonoghil, Killeany, Scotchrath, Shanahoe

Placenames

Boley Upper 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.