Bolane

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolane, from 39 m² to 459,310 m² (45.93 ha, 113.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Bolane 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 Aug 2025Refused

  the change of use of existing sub-standard dwelling house to a stables inclusive of feed room and tack room and the construction of a new replacement dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560847

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  (a) breaking out two windows into one to front elevation at ground floor level, including narrowing ope and raising cill, (b) conversion of door to window to side (east) elevation at ground floor level, (c) lowering of window cill to side (west) elevation at ground floor level, (d) construction of single storey extension to side (west) and (e) all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461239

• 1 Dec 2023N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360887

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  the fitting of solar panels to the front of the house, extend the house to the side and rear and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23532

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  the development of a detached garage to include ancillary gym at ground floor level and home office at first floor level and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360813

• 26 Sept 2023N/a

  the demolition of the existing garage and the rear extension, fit solar panels to the front of the house, extend the house to the side and rear and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23466

• 6 May 2022N/a

  solar panels to be fitted to the roof at the front of the house, build an extension, gates and piers to the side of the house, extend the existing extension to the side and rear and carry out other associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22503

• 15 Apr 2021Refused

  a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21484

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21432

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  single storey extension to rear of existing cottage and pitched roof to rear of cottage, and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21406

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore & Bleach Loughs 001030

Recorded monuments

• LI012-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In scrub-covered area, atop ridge, in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-007 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-07, 161-2) recorded the following details about Bolane Castle; 'W. Shane, mac Ric. mac W., held Beolane C[astle]. in Ardchanhe (Des. R., 33b). 1591 Grant to W. Carter. 1624 To Sir W. Parsons (Pat. R.). 1625 Edm. FitzGerald died seised of it; his son William succeeded (Inq. Chan., 10), and held the C[astle]. in 1655 (C.S., p. 13). Fabric - A tall peel tower, one side in good preservation for its full height; the opposite side with the doorway, having a staircase to the left, is levelled. It has two vaults and an upper room; the masonry and features are good, of well-cut limestone, and date from the later fifteenth century. The usual ambreys and angle-slits occur; also a slight turret at the battlement. It stands on a low rock over looking the Maigue valley and northward into Clare. It is traditionally a FitzGerald tower'. Castle classified by Donnelly (1999, 22, 37) as Type 5 that was characterised by tower houses 'which exhibited rectangular floor plans each of which is unique to an individual site, though each building had architectural features which placed them firmly within the Irish Gothic tower house tradition'. Bolane Castle described by Salter (2004, 66) as follows; 'This castle on a commanding rock was held by the Shanes in 1583 but in 1591 was granted to the Carters. It was held by William FitzGerald from 1625 until 1655. The SW corner of a tower 9.2m by 7.8m still stands four storeys high. The lowest level is vaulted and has a gunloop opening off the embrasure of the southerly of two loops in the west wall. Not much remains of the east wall which contained small chambers over a flight of steps leading from the entrance to a spiral staircase in the NW corner'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bolane, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_777 (ZIP).

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 Bolane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Bolane · An Beolán

Area

1,140,156 m² (114.02 ha, 281.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kildimo, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kildimo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahallee, Clooncaura, Coolbeg, Curraheen, Dromore, Glennameade, Knockroe, Tonlegee

Placenames

Bolane 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.