Boleybeg
Boleybeg is a townland in the civil parish of Tagheen, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile Bheag.
- Area
- 174.8 ha
- 432 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 29,790 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleybeg, from 19 m² to 259,044 m² (25.9 ha, 64.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Boleybeg 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
29 Sept 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to 1.) Construct a four-bay slatted shed incorporating a creep area, cattle crush and feed passage, 2.) construct a farm machinery storage shed, and 3.) construct a silage slab incorporating mass concrete walls, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560685
13 Dec 2023Conditional
Extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360538
13 Mar 2017Conditional
RETENTION OF SHED ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17169
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 Boleybeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boleybeg.
Architectural heritage
- Hollybrook House, walled garden, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Walled garden, extant 1838, with part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Hollybrook House.
- Hollybrook Bridge, bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1852; extant 1894. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt grass banks to river.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Boleybeg, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boleybeg.
- 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 Boleybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Boleybeg · An Bhuaile Bheag
- Area
- 1,748,180 m² (174.82 ha, 431.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Tagheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 187 people lived in 69 households in the Tagheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmore, Clareen, Cloonagh, Cloonkeen, Curraghaderry, Derryfadda Lower, Derryfadda Upper, Devlin, Knockbrack, Lehinch Demesne, Lenanaboll, Parknakillew, Pollaweela
- Placenames
- Boleybeg 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.