Boleybeg

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleybeg, from 19 m² to 259,044 m² (25.9 ha, 64.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Boleybeg 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.

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to 1.) Construct a four-bay slatted shed incorporating a creep area, cattle crush and feed passage, 2.) construct a farm machinery storage shed, and 3.) construct a silage slab incorporating mass concrete walls, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560685

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  Extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360538

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF SHED ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17169

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 Boleybeg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boleybeg.

Architectural heritage

• Hollybrook House, walled garden, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, with part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Hollybrook House.

• Hollybrook Bridge, bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1852; extant 1894. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt grass banks to river.

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 Boleybeg, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Boleybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Boleybeg · An Bhuaile Bheag

Area

1,748,180 m² (174.82 ha, 431.98 acres)

Civil parish

Tagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Tagheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

187 people lived in 69 households in the Tagheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Clareen, Cloonagh, Cloonkeen, Curraghaderry, Derryfadda Lower, Derryfadda Upper, Devlin, Knockbrack, Lehinch Demesne, Lenanaboll, Parknakillew, Pollaweela

Placenames

Boleybeg 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.