Boley
Boley is a townland in the civil parish of Ballycanew, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile.
Parcel 388127
- Area
- 149,067 m² (14.91 ha, 36.84 acres)
- 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
- Boley
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 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.
- 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
- 130.3 ha
- 322 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,618 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley, from 163 m² to 360,201 m² (36.02 ha, 89.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Boley 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 Jul 2026Refused
Permission for design amendments to a dwelling previously granted
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260963
23 Apr 2026Granted (unconditional)
Retention of works to date and permission to complete the erection of
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20181440
5 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage as a change of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260281
6 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211894
23 Aug 2021Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211342
25 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH GARAGE UNDER ROOF AND WITH SERVICES AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191559
22 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH GARAGE UNDER ROOF AND CAR PORT WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191047
29 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO INSTALL A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE, A SLATTED UNIT WITH EFFLUENT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190753
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 Boley.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boley.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boley.
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 Boley, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boley.
- 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 Boley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Boley · An Bhuaile
- Area
- 1,302,846 m² (130.28 ha, 321.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycanew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballycanew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,227 people lived in 443 households in the Ballycanew electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balcarrig, Balcarrighill, Bolinready, Clonmore, Cranacrower, Tomcoyle, Tomgar
- Placenames
- Boley 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.