Boolakeel

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolakeel, from 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 140,910 m² (14.09 ha, 34.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Boolakeel 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.

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES ON SITE (FOLIOS OY29747F & OY22812F) INCLUDING THOSE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE MAIN ROAD, THE R439 AND TO THOSE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE AVENUE ROAD TRAVERSING THE LANDS. (2) CONTINUATION OF WORKS SCHEDULED AS OUTLINED IN THE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE TFL00145618

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22630

• 21 Oct 2022N/a

  (1) THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES ON SITE (FOLIOS OY9592 & OY22812F) INCLUDING THOSE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE MAIN ROAD, THE R439 AND TO THOSE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE AVENUE ROAD TRAVERSING THE LANDS AND (2) CONTINUATION OF WORKS SCHEDULED AS OUTLINED IN THE DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE TFL00145618

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22546

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 Boolakeel.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boolakeel.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Boolakeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Boolakeel · An Bhuaile Chaol

Area

706,694 m² (70.67 ha, 174.63 acres)

Civil parish

Reynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Mounterin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

263 people lived in 90 households in the Mounterin electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyeighter, Blackbull, Boheradurrow, Claremount, Garrycastle

Placenames

Boolakeel 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.