Boolaglass

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolaglass, from 69 m² to 190,499 m² (19.05 ha, 47.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Boolaglass 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.

• 8 Mar 2019Refused

  demolition of existing dwelling, the construction of a replacement storey and a half type dwelling, construction of a new effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19210

• 25 Apr 2017Refused

  demolition of an existing dwelling & construction of a storey and a half type replacement dwelling, effluent treatment system, new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17366

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 Boolaglass.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop low limestone hillock. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by briars and thorn bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In area of outcropping limestone, completely covered by scrub and thorn bushes. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop low rise, in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), is now very heavily masked by dense overgrowth of bushes and trees. Short stretch of earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.45m) accessible N->NE. D-shaped annex (6m N-S; 3.5m E-W) at NE is enclosed by curved earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8m) S->N, and defined by linear field wall on E side. Interior is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.45m) SE->SW and NE->E, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 2m) SW->NE. Bank best preserved along S arc, lowers at E (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m). Entrance (Wth 2.5m) at ESE. Interior surface uneven and in rough pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wooded area, on W-facing slope, with pasture fields adjacent to N and S. Sub-circular area (33.5m N-S; 35.8m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank. Bank is widest and best preserved SE->W (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m, Wth 4m) where stone field wall (H 0.8m) runs along external edge; similar field wall runs along top of bank NNW->ENE. Site is terraced into falling ground so that bank has higher internal profile ENE->SE (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.45m). Level interior covered with trees some of which have fallen and lie on ground. There are three small dumps of field clearance stones in SW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at W edge of break in W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 29.5m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.25m). Bank, masked by briar growth, best preserved along N arc. Field boundary, depicted immediately outside bank at NW arc on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been removed and material derived from it dumped against external bank face at W. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In scrub covered ground, atop low ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth of briar and scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_550 (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 Boolaglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Boolaglass · An Bhuaile Ghlas

Area

1,602,652 m² (160.27 ha, 396.02 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardtomin, Askeaton, Ballynacaheragh, Bullaun, Cragmore, Curraheen North, Derry, Milltown North, Milltown South, Nantinan

Placenames

Boolaglass 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.