Bolacaheer
Bolacaheer is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyanne, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Buaile Chathaoir.
Parcel 380184
- Area
- 4,111 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 463 m².
- 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
- Bolacaheer
Planning applications on this parcel
21 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND ERECTION
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200215
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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 70.6 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 7,573 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolacaheer, from 188 m² to 159,127 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Bolacaheer 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
2 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the change of site boundaries with modified entranc
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250818
25 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an agricultural building with underground
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211832
2 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a cattle underpass under an existing road
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201265
21 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND ERECTION
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200215
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bolacaheer.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bolacaheer.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bolacaheer.
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 Bolacaheer, 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 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 Bolacaheer.
- 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 Bolacaheer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bolacaheer · Buaile Chathaoir
- Area
- 706,300 m² (70.63 ha, 174.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyanne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ballyanne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 793 people lived in 276 households in the Ballyanne electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyanne, Ballyleigh, Ballynabanoge, Boherstooka, Gobbinstown
- Placenames
- Bolacaheer 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.