Boulabally

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boulabally, from 98 m² to 319,926 m² (31.99 ha, 79.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C5Tourism Related Development (Tourism and related)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 57 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Jun 2017Conditional

  the construction of a clay pigeon facility located to the south of Adare Manor Estate lands comprising a single storey gallery house for users including a glazed rear wall and a solid roof with the enclosure of a 6m high earthern bund that will extend to four sides of the shooting area with ancillary surface parking and including all site development works. Access to the site will be from internal Estate road network (The Adare Manor House, the Clubhouse and Estate Walled Gardens are Protected Structures (RPS Refs 809,819, 821-823 respectfully in the Adare Local Area Plan 2015-2021)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17602

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 Boulabally.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In unploughed ground within a tillage field, 300m SW of a series of archaeological excavations (LI021-182----) at Adare Villas. Depicted as a circular fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. On the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map and later OSi maps the ringfort is depicted as an embanked enclosure. Inspected by ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (int. diam. 30m) defined by an earthen scarped edge (H 0.05m) with entrance at S (Wth 4m). The interior undulates and slopes slightly to N and was clear of undergrowth. The ringfort is now overgrown with scrub woodland as visible on Google earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 29 July 2020

• LI021-182001 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  In a housing scheme known as Adare Villas, 170m to SE of Adare Demesne townland boundary and 580m to W of the River Maigue, which also marks a boundary with Mountwilliam townland. An enclosure (LI021-182003-) and cremation pits (LI021-182002-) lie 130m to SE and 145m to N, respectively. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Features identified in 2005 by Ross McLeod and John Kavanagh during monitoring of topsoil stripping for a holiday home development on the lands of Adare Manor (McLeod and Kavanagh 2005, 1). Features excavated (Licence No. 05E0169) in 2005 and described as a metalworking site, several anomalous pits and later field drains (ibid). In general, the area of the excavation and surrounding field had been under intensive agricultural activity for some time, reflected by the regular plough marks identified across the exposed surface of the field. Also hand-excavated field drains along with modern machine-cut examples were located across the site, demonstrating a continual process of land improvement. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 2020

• LI021-182002 Cremation pit
  Description

  In a housing scheme known as Adare Villas, 170m to SE of Adare Demesne townland boundary and 580m to W of the River Maigue, which also marks a boundary with Mountwilliam townland. A metalworking site, pits and drains (LI021-182001-) and an enclosure (LI021-18200-) lie 130m to NW and 240m to N, respectively. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Features identified in 2005 by Ross McLeod and John Kavanagh during monitoring of topsoil stripping for a holiday home development on the lands of Adare Manor (McLeod and Kavanagh 2005, 1). Features excavated (Licence No. 05E0169) in 2005 and described as a cluster of small pits that contained human cremated bone. The quantity of bone recovered from each pit was small, similar to a token deposit, which is indicative of burial practices dating to the Bronze Age period. In general, the area of the excavation and surrounding field had been under intensive agricultural activity for some time, reflected by the regular plough marks identified across the exposed surface of the field. Also hand-excavated field drains along with modern machine-cut examples were located across the site, demonstrating a continual process of land improvement. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 2020

• LI021-182003 Enclosure
  Description

  In a housing scheme known as Adare Villas, 170m to SE of Adare Demesne townland boundary and 580m to W of the River Maigue, which also marks a boundary with Mountwilliam townland. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified during as an enclosure during monitoring of topsoil stripping for a holiday home development on the lands of Adare Manor (McLeod and Kavanagh 2005, 1). Monument excavated (Licence No. 05E0169) by Ross McLeod and John Kavanagh in 2005 and described as a large semicircular-shaped area (30m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a ditch (max. D 1.76m). Human skeletal remains, which were placed with crossed hands, were recovered from the base of the ditch and indicate an Early Christian date for the body and feature. There were no indicators for habitation within the interior, although a small metalworking pit, several anomalous pits and later field drains (LI021-182001-) lie 145m to S. A cluster of small cremation pits (LI021-082002-) was also recovered 240m to SE. In general, the area of the excavation and surrounding field had been under intensive agricultural activity for some time, reflected by the regular plough marks identified across the exposed surface of the field. Also hand-excavated field drains along with modern machine-cut examples were located across the site, demonstrating a continual process of land improvement. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and

• LI021-182004 Burial
  Description

  Archaeological excavations carried out by John Kavanagh under licence no. 05E0169 were summarised as following; 'An archaeological investigation was carried out at Boulabally housing development, Boulabally, Adare, Co. Limerick, prior to the construction of 30 houses at the site. Monitoring of the removal of topsoil at the pre-construction phase commenced on 2 February 2005. Stripping of the c. 12-acre site revealed a small number of archaeological features, concentrated in two main areas (north-eastern and south-eastern) of the field. In the north-eastern corner a large semicircular enclosure ditch formed the largest archaeological element of the investigation. The ditch measured 20m east-west by 30m internally, with a maximum depth of 1.76m. Within the area delimited by the ditch there were no indicators for habitation, although activity at the site is shown by a small pit that was utilised in the processing/manufacturing of metals. Several anomalous pit features and later field drains were also identified within the internal area. Human skeletal remains were recovered from the base of the ditch, placed with crossed hands, which indicates an Early Christian date for the body and feature. In the south-eastern corner of the field were a cluster of small pits that contained probable human cremated bone. The quantity of bone recovered from each pit was small (almost token amounts), which is indicative of burial practices from the Bronze Age period. In general, the area of the field had been under intensive agricultural activity for some time, save for the northernmost 50m, which remained relatively uncultivated. Hand-excavated field drains together with modern machine-cut examples were located across the site, demonstrating a continual process of land improvement. This was borne out by the large quantity of ploughmarks identified throughout the field' (www.excavations.ie).

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_819 (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 Boulabally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Boulabally · Buaile an Bhaile

Area

851,762 m² (85.18 ha, 210.47 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Adare South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Adare South electoral division: 2,225 people in 730 households; 72% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adare, Beabus, Castleroberts, Derryvinnane, Graigue, Mountwilliam

Placenames

Boulabally 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.