Bolart South

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolart South, from 149 m² to 615,414 m² (61.54 ha, 152.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Bolart South 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.

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  the development and operation of a c. 14MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at this 29.75ha site located off Curragh Road (L20171) in the townland of Clara, near Clara, Co. Offaly. The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 35 years. The development will consist of: • Approximately 38,000 panels on ground mounted metal frames, with a maximum height above ground of 3.17 metres, including string inverters mounted to the rear of the panels; • 1 no. 38kV substation including 1 no. MV switch room, IPP control room, 1 no. ESB switch room, and associated electrical infrastructure; • 3 no. transformer units; • Underground cabling and ducting; • 1 no. temporary construction compound and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project; • Perimeter Fencing; • CCTV; • Site access provided from existing site access off Curragh Road (L20171), internal tracks, site landscaping and all associated site enabling and site development works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460338

• 12 Aug 2024N/a

  The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 35 years. The development will consist of: • Approximately 38,000 panels on ground mounted metal frames, with a maximum height above ground of 3.17 metres, including string inverters mounted to the rear of the panels; • 1 no. 38kV substation including 1 no. MV switch room, IPP control room, 1 no. ESB switch room, and associated electrical infrastructure; • 3 no. transformer units; • Underground cabling and ducting; • 1 no. temporary construction compound and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project; • Perimeter Fencing; • CCTV; • Site access provided from existing site access of Curagh Road (L20171), internal tracks, site landscaping and all associated site enabling and site development works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460308

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR FARM. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM WILL COMPRISE THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF SOLAR PV ARRAYS MOUNTED ON METAL FRAMES ON AN APPROX 29.7HA SITE, INCLUSIVE OF A SINGLE ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, UP TO 8 INVERTER UNITS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION AREA AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES, BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCE WITH CCTV UNITS, AN ACCESS TRACK, ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS (INCLUSIVE OF GROSS FLOOR SPACE OF PROPOSED WORKS UP TO 213.6SQM). THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT AND STAGE 1 SCREENING FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18314

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 Bolart South.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bolart South.

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1824 (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 Bolart South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Bolart South · Buaile Airt Theas

Area

1,215,088 m² (121.51 ha, 300.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcoursey

Electoral division

Tinamuck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinamuck electoral division: 300 people in 95 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboughlin, Bolart North, Clara, Cloghatanny, Clonshanny, Erry (Armstrong), Greenville or Garryduff, Kilmanaghan, Kippeenduff

Placenames

Bolart South 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.