Boolavoord

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolavoord, from 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres) to 287,240 m² (28.72 ha, 70.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Boolavoord 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.

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  an all-weather pitch with 12 metre high floodlighting and the construction of a precast hurling wall. Permission is also sought for the erection of lighting around the existing walking track

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22148

• 18 Oct 2019N/a

  an independent living unit extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191035

• 6 Sept 2018N/a

  an independent living unit extension and Permission for completion and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18881

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171070

• 26 Apr 2017N/a

  to construct an independent living unit onto her existing dwelling house with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17371

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 Boolavoord.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-130 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'This is a simple circular stone walled fort the bank of which is now very much collapsed. A fosse is not visible. It is so collapsed and so densely overgrown that it is not possible to say on which side the entrance was. Its overall diameter is 105' [32m]. It is situated on rising ground' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 223). Outline of monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

• LI022-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'This is an earthen platform with a bank at its edge. Outside is a fosse. On the north and east sides the bank and fosse are quite gone. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 150' [47m]. It is heavily overgrown with bushes and is situated in low-land marshy ground' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 223). Tree-covered monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

• LI022-134 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'About one-third of the east side of this monument has been levelled out. It consists of a platform around the edge of which there was a bank. A fosse is not visible. The overall diameter is 200' [61m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 223). Outline of monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

• LI022-213001 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI022: Bruff 9201: AP 4/3648.

• LI022-213002 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a possible enclosure identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI022: Bruff 9202: AP 4/3648. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Boolavoord, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Boolavoord · Buaile an Bhoird

Area

838,305 m² (83.83 ha, 207.15 acres)

Civil parish

Fedamore, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 101 households in the Rathmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Ballymartin, Kilcaskin, Kilderry, Mortgage, Powerfield, Rathmore North

Placenames

Boolavoord 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.