Boolies

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolies, from 299 m² to 142,316 m² (14.23 ha, 35.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  for infilling of lands with material consisting of clean, uncontaminated soil and stones, including article 27 material (by-product), to raise the levels and improve the land for agricultural purposes. permission is also sought for one temporary portable toilet, one wheel wash facility and one temporary onsite portacabin which will serve as an office for the duration of the infilling process. Also, a Certificate of Registration waste permit (up to 25,000 tonnes) will be sought from Meath County Council Environment Section.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660031

• 6 Mar 2019Conditional

  the retention of a revised single-storey extension and associated alterations constructed to the rear of our existing bungalow to the previous approved planning permission Ref. No. KA/161359

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA190241

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  the erection of a two-storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Also to provide a new entrance and to close up existing agricultural entrance and to include for all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190224

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  the provision of a new agricultural entrance to lands to include for all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190225

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 Boolies.

Recorded monuments

• ME016-078001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1053) by G. Mcloughlin (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1189) identified two spreads of broken and burnt stone that were fully resolved (E003167) by I. Russell in October and November 2006 as Boolies 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1514). This spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 11.5m x 10.5m; max. T 0.24m) was at the S edge of the road-take but very little remained outside it. It overlay a rectangular trough (dims 2m x 1.05m; max. D 0.71m) with steep sides and a flat base and another triangular pit (dims 2.3m x 1.8m; max. D 0.33m). Both the trough and pit were filled with broken and burnt stone in a black matrix. No bones or artefacts were recovered and no date is available. The fulacht fia (ME016-078002-) is c. 10m to the NE. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2-3) See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 March 2022

• ME016-078002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1053) by G. Mcloughlin (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1189) identified two spreads of broken and burnt stone that were fully resolved (E003167) by I. Russell in October and November 2006 as Boolies 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1514). This spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 14m x 12m; max. T 0.19m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims 1.9m x 1.52m; D 0.27m) with a stake-hole at each corner and two at the NW, and a small quantity of cremated bone was recovered from one of the stake-holes. The trough was filled with burnt mound material and a sample of hazel charcoal from it returned a C14 date of 1266-1009 cal. BC (Beta 247135). A second subrectangular pit (dims 1.63m x 1.19m; D 0.18m) at the N edge of the mound was also filled with broken and burnt stone but it was V-shaped in section and could not have served as a trough. The fulacht fia (ME016-078001-) is c. 10m to the SW. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2) See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 March 2022

• ME016-079 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located in a slight hollow at the bottom of a N-facing slope. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1053) by G. Mcloughlin (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1189) identified a spread of broken and burnt stone that was fully resolved (E003166) by I. Russell in October and November 2006 as Boolies 2 (excavations.ie 2006:1515). This is a spread of grey/black clay with burnt stones and charcoal (dims c. 12m E-W; c. 5m N-S; max. T 0.25m) which overlay two troughs and three pits. The troughs are both rectangular (dims 2m x 1.32m; D 0.23m: dims 1.88m x 1.48m; D 0.29m) and flat-bottomed and each trough has a stake-hole at each angle. Both troughs were filled with the burnt mound material. Two large pits (dims 1.6m x 1.5m; D 0.42m: dims 2.24m x 2.1m; D 0.16m) and one small one (dims 0.44m x 0.4m) were also beneath the mound and filled with layers of broken and burnt stone. Other small pits were located c. 12m to the W and c. 17m to the N. Only one C14 date of 2271-1977 cal. BC (Beta 247136) derived from a piece of hazel charcoal is available from the pit W of the monument. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2-4) See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 March 2022

• ME016-085 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on gentle SE-facing slope. The faint outline of a circular grass-covered enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slight fosse is only visible on Google Earth (Jan. 2020). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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 Boolies with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Boolies · Na Buailte

Area

806,941 m² (80.69 ha, 199.4 acres)

Civil parish

Burry, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Burry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burry electoral division: 281 people in 91 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barfordstown, Calliaghstown, Chapelbride, Destinrath, Drumbaragh, Rafeehan

Placenames

Boolies 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.