Boola
Boola is a townland in the civil parish of Killagholehane, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile.
- Area
- 165 ha
- 408 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 4,124 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boola, from 28 m² to 367,389 m² (36.74 ha, 90.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Boola 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jun 2023Conditional
the change of design of dwelling house and change of site layout from that previously granted under planning reference 21/1825 and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23340
27 Feb 2023Conditional
the construction of an extension to existing cubicle house, including new slatted tanks, construct roof over existing soiled yard, new slatted tank in existing collecting yard, new calf house, manure pit and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23118
26 Mar 2021Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21379
14 Oct 2020Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house and detached domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system, entrance and associated site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 201028
2 Oct 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, entrance, single dwelling waste water treatment system, well and associated site works. Outline Ref. No. 16/534
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19978
20 Feb 2018Conditional
demolition of existing derelict dwelling and construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18144
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boola.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boola.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boola.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boola.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Boola · An Bhuaile
- Area
- 1,649,907 m² (164.99 ha, 407.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killagholehane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Boola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 142 people lived in 49 households in the Boola electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahernagh (Leland) (Co. Cork), Farrihy, Gortnagark (Co. Cork), Knockglass, Lacka Lower, Lacka Upper, Tullaha
- Placenames
- Boola 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.