# Boolinarig Big, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Buaile na nArg Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,190,515 m² (219.05 ha, 541.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,841 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Eglish, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 153 people lived in 57 households in the Eglish electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41305 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180256 - Centre: latitude 53.133226, longitude -7.896516 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolinarig Big, from 1,893 m² to 335,333 m² (33.53 ha, 82.86 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 306915: 335,333 m² (33.53 ha, 82.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306915.md - Parcel 274371: 285,644 m² (28.56 ha, 70.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274371.md - Parcel 5471712: 274,137 m² (27.41 ha, 67.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5471712.md - Parcel 303623: 147,769 m² (14.78 ha, 36.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303623.md - Parcel 288566: 139,743 m² (13.97 ha, 34.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288566.md - Parcel 294034: 114,995 m² (11.5 ha, 28.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294034.md - Parcel 298041: 93,983 m² (9.4 ha, 23.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298041.md - Parcel 290890: 93,694 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290890.md - Parcel 6227248: 64,785 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6227248.md - Parcel 279812: 53,276 m² (5.33 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279812.md - Parcel 5903938: 51,976 m² (5.2 ha, 12.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5903938.md - Parcel 271242: 50,934 m² (5.09 ha, 12.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271242.md - Parcel 5903941: 45,137 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5903941.md - Parcel 305098: 44,545 m² (4.45 ha, 11.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305098.md - Parcel 5903934: 44,054 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5903934.md - Parcel 6227261: 33,060 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6227261.md - Parcel 283943: 28,678 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283943.md - Parcel 309985: 17,542 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309985.md - Parcel 304475: 16,799 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304475.md - Parcel 270664: 12,485 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270664.md - Parcel 312915: 7,906 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312915.md - Parcel 282114: 4,937 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282114.md - Parcel 294097: 4,605 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294097.md - Parcel 4688882: 3,672 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688882.md - Parcel 2474434: 3,195 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474434.md - Parcel 314533: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314533.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Boolinarig Big in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 14 Jul 2025, Offaly County Council 2571: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, INTEGRATED CARPORT, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2571/0 - 21 Oct 2022, Offaly County Council 22548: N/a. Permission, 1 home. AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22548/0 - 30 May 2018, Offaly County Council 18230: Refused. Permission. THE INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 12.5KM OF 38KV ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE FROM THE PERMITTED (WIND FARM) SUBSTATION (OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053) IN THE TOWNLAND OF STONESTOWN, COUNTY OFFALY TO THE EXISTING ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONDALLOW, COUNTY OFFALY. THE TRANSMISSION LINE WILL COMPRISE APPROXIMATELY 8.5KM OF UNDERGROUND LINE AND APPROXIMATELY 3.7KM OF OVERHEAD LINE. UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN PRIVATE LANDS AND WITHIN THE PUBLIC ROADS NUMBERED N62, R439 AND THE L70152; WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2M IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING, JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING AT 1 NO. RAILWAY CROSSING ALONG THE N62, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. OVERHEAD INFRASTRUCTURE WILL CONSIST OF 3 NO. POWERLINES SUSPENDED FROM WOODEN POLES WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 16 METRES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) WHICH INCLUDES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LIKELY IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, AS A WHOLE AND IN COMBINATION WITH THE RELEVANT OFF-SITE OR SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS WHICH WILL OCCUR AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED PURSUANT TO OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18230/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boolinarig Big. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boolinarig Big. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boolinarig Big. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Boolinarig Big, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boolinarig Big. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Boolinarig Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynaguilsha: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynaguilsha.md - Boolinarig Little: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-little.md - Boolinarig School Land: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-school-land.md - Conspark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/conspark.md - Cush: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cush-180549.md - Eglish: https://everytownland.com/offaly/eglish.md - Garbally: https://everytownland.com/offaly/garbally-180682.md - Glenns: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenns.md - Ross: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ross-181068.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolinarig-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/boolinarig-big