Bolag

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolag, from 40 m² to 158,902 m² (15.89 ha, 39.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Bolag 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  for the change of use of part of existing commercial premises (Woodford Nurseries) to a coffee shop and all associated site development works and services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 26220

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 190.00 sqm(H), 45 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560434

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  for change of use of existing classroom from mainstream to Pre School /afterschool use

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560053

• 2 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the construction of three dwellings for use as individual self catering units for tourism related accommodation, 1 No. sauna & hot tub, access road, bin store, wastewater treatment system with all associated site works. An ecological impact statement and a Natura Impact Statement will accompany this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 134.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560004

• 28 Nov 2024N/a

  for change of use of existing classroom from mainstream to Pre School /afterschool use. Gross floor space of proposed works: 70 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461629

• 15 Aug 2024N/a

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 2461051

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  to change dwelling house and domestic garage to that previously permitted under planning reference 20/810. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 104.40 sqm & (Garage) 27 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460995

• 7 Jun 2024N/a

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 178.00 sqm (house) & 48.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460686

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the following development: (a) to upgrade & widen the existing vehicular entrance to the GAA grounds with amendments to the internal parking layout arrangement to include disability & bicycle parking spaces; (b) to upgrade the existing flood lighting serving the training pitch; (c) new flood lighting to serve the main playing pitch; (d) installation of 2no. 4m wide curved aluminium frame pitch side dugouts; (e) installation of a mounted electronic scoreboard; (f) extension to existing perimeter walking track; (g) installation & fixing of solar panels to roof of clubhouse; & (h) all associated external site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23369

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/store, proprietary treatment system, soil polishing filter and all associated services. An ecological impact statement & a natura impact statement will accompany this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361016

• 30 Jun 2023N/a

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/store, proprietary treatment system, soil polishing filter & all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360737

• 10 Nov 2022Conditional

  a new dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services.Gross floor space of proposed works 115.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261137

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  of existing storage shed and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 122.27 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221055

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  of (1) Retention of existing rear extension (2) New extension to front and rear of existing dwelling, with new detached garage, (3) New site entrance and all associated site works and services.Gross floor space of proposed works 122.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260619

• 25 Jun 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 191.3 msq & 63 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20810

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  to construct an enclosed play area including fencing and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 550 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20686

• 13 Nov 2019Conditional

  to enlarge the all weather pitch previously granted permission under planning reference 15/464

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191758

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  for existing dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area and all associated services on revised site boundaries (previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 06/1531). Gross floor space of work to be retained: (house) - 375.8 sqm., (garage) 45.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181425

• 25 Jan 2018Conditional

  the 1) retention of the provision of the site entrance and internal site access roadway. 2) the retention of the clearance of the proposed dwelling house oversite. 3) permission for the construction of a dwellinghouse, waste water effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 74 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1857

• 18 Dec 2017Refused

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 268.4sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171817

• 1 Jun 2017N/a

  1) Retention of the provision of the site entrance and internal site access roadway 2) The retention of the clearance of the proposed dwelling house oversite 3) Permission for the construction of a dwellinghouse, waste water effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 74sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17772

• 26 May 2017N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 268.4 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17757

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 190sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17701

• 23 Jan 2017N/a

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, waste water effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 74 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1742

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Derrycrag Wood Nature Reserve SAC 000261
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrycrag Wood Nature Reserve 000261

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bolag.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Bolag, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Bolag, Woodford5 sales

Name

Bolag · Both Leag

Area

1,754,587 m² (175.46 ha, 433.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Woodford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

468 people lived in 194 households in the Woodford electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonco, Derrycrag, Drumminnamuckla South, Laughil, Woodford

Placenames

Bolag 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.