Boleyboy

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleyboy, from 341 m² to 83,620 m² (8.36 ha, 20.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Boleyboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Boleyboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Boleyboy.

Recorded monuments

• MA082-016001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located close to the break of slope on the NE side of a broad plateau on a NW–SE ridge, There are excellent views to W–NW along the top of the ridge, and eastwards over a panoramic sweep of countryside. An oval area (45m NE–SW; 58.4m NW–SE) defined at WSW–NW by a low scarp incorporated into a later field wall, at N–ENE by a barely discernible levelled scarp and at ENE–SE by sod-covered wall footings (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.4m). At SSE–SW the enclosing element has been entirely levelled, although an ephemeral undulation can be traced in parts. To NW, at a distance of 3-3.5m outside the enclosing scarp, there is a slight rise which curves to NNE where it merges with the natural contours of the ridge slope. It is not clear if this is merely a natural undulation or an indication of an outer enclosing bank or wall. The grass-covered interior is fairly level. It was used as a children’s burial ground (MA082-016002-) focused on a roughly square area (c. 19m NE–SW; c. 19m NW–SE) in the SE sector. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2021

• MA082-016002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In the SE half of a possible cashel (MA082-016001-). Indicated as ‘Caldragh Burial Ground’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch maps and ‘Caldragh (Chidren’s burial Ground)’ on the 1916 edition. A roughly square area (c. 19m NE–SW; c. 19m NW–SE) in the SE half of the cashel interior is covered in a dense concentration of small, uninscribed upright stones and low, sod-covered stony hummocks, which mark graves. Remnants of an enclosing wall (Wth 1m) define the NW side of the area. According to local information, it was in use until the mid-20th century for the burial of unbaptised babies and occasionally for older children too. A single, wind-twisted hawthorn tree, which stands on the W side of the burial ground, is known locally as the ‘umbrella tree’. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Boleyboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Boleyboy · An Bhuaile Bhuí

Area

547,581 m² (54.76 ha, 135.31 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhine, Cappagh, Cartron North, Tooreen

Placenames

Boleyboy 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.