Boleybeg

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleybeg, from 85 m² to 435,153 m² (43.52 ha, 107.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Boleybeg 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  retain change of use of Knock Community Centre to Early Years and School Aged sessional services between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and all associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660102

• 16 Feb 2026N/a

  retain change of use of Knock Community Centre to Early Years and School Aged sessional services between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660083

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  retain change of use of Knock Community Centre to creche and afterschool service between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560598

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  Renovate, re-roof and construct side extensions to existing dressing room facilities and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560184

• 12 Jan 2024Conditional

  1. retain existing storage / slatted shed and storage tank capacity 113 cubic meters, 2. permission to construct extension to existing slatted shed to include oassageway, slatted shed and slatted tank capacity 149 cubic meters and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 247

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  develop a multi games area with associated perimeter fence; 4 no. 18m high floodlights to existing pitch; 11 no. 6m high lights to walking path around pitch and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360264

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  provide (a) multi games area with associated perimeter fence and lighting; lighting to walking path around pitch and (c) RETENTION permission for 4 no. floodlights and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1787

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  1. construct a two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. 2. To construct a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling. 4.Internal and elevational modifications. 5. Demolition of existing single storey rear extension. 6. Modification of existing site boundaries. 7. Provision of a new sewage treatment plant and percolation area. 8. Provision of a new domestic vehicular site entrance and all associated site developments works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1751

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

Recorded monuments

• LA024-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A subcircular area (max. dims. c. 34m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a bank (Wth 2.5m, int. H 0.5m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m). Possible original entrance at NE. 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

• LA024-046 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Cropmark of rectangular enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSI, S 68-9). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Boleybeg, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Boleybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Boleybeg · An Bhuaile Bheag

Area

2,895,661 m² (289.57 ha, 715.53 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartgallen, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Blandsfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

338 people lived in 113 households in the Blandsfort electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyking, Clarbarracum, Coole or Lisnagomman, Garrintaggart, Graigue, Graiguenahown, Graiguenasmuttan, Keelagh, Knockardagur, Lisnagomman

Placenames

Boleybeg 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.