Bolies

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolies, from 42 m² to 252,132 m² (25.21 ha, 62.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bolies 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission for a proposed domestic storage shed to the rear of dwelling house, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660533

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for alterations and extension to an existing cattle shed and farmyard facilities. The alterations to the farmyard include for the conversion of an existing dungstead to a covered store and the provision of a new separate covered dungstead and store, together with all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received on 18/10/2024 provided for, inter alia, retention of an existing dungstead and hardstand area*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360505

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for existing double garage at basement level, existing bay window and 3 no. roof lights to north elevation and conversion of existing space for storage facilities

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23464

• 16 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission for alterations and extension to an existing cattle shed and farmyard facilities. The alterations to the farmyard include for the conversion of an existing dungstead to a covered store and the provision of a new separate covered dungstead and store, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360404

• 25 Aug 2023Refused

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto existing access road, use of existing vehicular entrance accessing the public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360304

• 24 Jul 2023N/a

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto existing access road, use of existing vehicular entrance accessing the public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360240

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 11/04/2022*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211539

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for a new dwelling house with adjoining granny flat, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 211469

• 24 Sept 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, installation of a waste water treatment system, percolation area, well, vehicular access from the site via the existing right of way roadway to existing public road entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211210

• 24 Sept 2021Refused

  Outline permission for the construction of a dwelling house, installation of a waste water treatment system, percolation area and well, vehicular access from the site via the existing right of way roadway to existing public road entrance

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211211

• 16 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house with adjoining granny flat, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 20966

• 7 Oct 2019N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house with adjoining granny flat, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19815

• 26 Aug 2019N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house with adjoining granny flat, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19685

• 10 Jun 2019N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house with adjoining granny flat, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19447

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: Stabannan-Braganstown 000456

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bolies.

Architectural heritage

• Bolies House, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890. L-plan, remodelled c.1860, cantilevered porch to south c.1990, pitched roofed porch to north elevation. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth rendered chimneystacks, uPVC rainwater goods,, dentilled cornice to eaves. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted roughcast render to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted moulded smooth rendered architraves, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows to ground floor, two-over-two sliding sash windows to first floor, single round-headed window opening to north elevation. Square-headed door opening, painted timber door with two vertical raised-and-fielded panels flanked by painted engaged column and plain-glazed sidelights surmounted by dentil cornice, flanked in turn by large pilasters supporting cantilevered hipped roof porch; limestone threshold. Red brick outbuildings to north-west, pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Former avenue to front of house no longer used, former entrance to west, painted rendered boundary walls, flat limestone coping, accessed through squared gate piers with dressed limestone domed caps, cast-iron gates. House surrounded by fields, accessed by drive to rear

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3035 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Bolies · Na Buailte

Area

1,213,046 m² (121.3 ha, 299.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Castlebellingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlebellingham electoral division: 1,882 people in 704 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braganstown, Charleville, Mullincross, Pollbrock, Williamstown

Placenames

Bolies 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.