Boolanacausk
Boolanacausk is a townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Buaile na Cásca.
Parcel 1519449
- Area
- 1,940 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Boolanacausk
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Sept 2025Conditional
for the following development: (a) to restore and refurbish the existing derelict farmhouse, to include raising the existing roof height, elevational alterations and the construction of extensions to the side and front of the house; (b) alterations to the ground levels around the house; (c) the provision of a domestic wastewater treatment system; (d) the provision of a bored well; (e) all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560568
12 Jul 2023N/a
the development will consist of: A. Constructing a split level part single storey, part 2 storey dwelling. B. Installation of a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23395
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_925 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 107.1 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,486 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolanacausk, from 23 m² to 262,050 m² (26.21 ha, 64.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Boolanacausk 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Sept 2025Conditional
for the following development: (a) to restore and refurbish the existing derelict farmhouse, to include raising the existing roof height, elevational alterations and the construction of extensions to the side and front of the house; (b) alterations to the ground levels around the house; (c) the provision of a domestic wastewater treatment system; (d) the provision of a bored well; (e) all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560568
14 Jan 2025N/a
to construct a garage, including ancillary site works at the rear/side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Clare County Council, 253
12 Jul 2023N/a
the development will consist of: A. Constructing a split level part single storey, part 2 storey dwelling. B. Installation of a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23395
23 Jun 2023N/a
to construct a garage, including ancillary site works at the rear/side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Clare County Council, 23362
17 Apr 2023N/a
to construct a garage, including ancillary site works at the rear/side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Clare County Council, 23225
4 May 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, entrance from public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21424
24 Jun 2019Conditional
to construct a Slatted Shed, manure pit and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19497
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Natural Heritage Area: Woodcock Hill Bog NHA 002402
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boolanacausk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boolanacausk.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Boolanacausk, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_903 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boolanacausk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Boolanacausk · Buaile na Cásca
- Area
- 1,071,412 m² (107.14 ha, 264.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Killeely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 900 people lived in 289 households in the Killeely electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappateemore West, Derry More, Knocknaskeagh
- Placenames
- Boolanacausk 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.