Boola

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boola, from 1,927 m² to 456,537 m² (45.65 ha, 112.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Boola 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Boola 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 the townland of Boola.

Recorded monuments

• TN017-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of an E-W ridge in undulating terrain in an area of rock outcrop. A very denuded circular enclosure (diam. 39m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.7m) with an outer fosse (Wth 1.75m) only evident at E. The NE quadrant has been quarried into leaving a deep depression. Not indicated on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN017-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a small, natural hillock in rolling pastureland. The field has been reclaimed and the surrounding ground is very wet. An oval enclosure (diam. 28m NE-SW; 22m E-W) which has been badly damaged by quarrying in the N sector. The enclosing bank is only evident in the NE quadrant (Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.2m) - elsewhere it is reduced to a scarp (H 1.33m). Slight traces of an external fosse (Wth c. 2-3m) are visible at S. A N-S field boundary at the W side of the site may truncate it slightly. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN017-040 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in shallow dip in undulating terrain. Indicated as a sub-circular-shaped platform-type earthwork on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map but as two adjacent quarries on the 1901-5 ed. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 16 January 2012

• TN017-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the N-facing slope of a ridge just below the summit in undulating pastureland. The site has been levelled but is still visible as a slight oval rise (dims. 40m N-S; 32m E-W). The fosse (Wth 1.4m) is evident at N as a slight dip with lusher, greener grass. There is a break (Wth 5.8m) in the fosse also at N. The interior undulates gently and some small incidents of quarrying have occurred. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN017-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the summit of a ridge which slopes to the SW with higher ground upslope to the N. Only very faint remains of this roughly circular enclosure (diam. 31.8m NE-SW; 18.5m NW-SE) are discernible. A stone wall oriented NE-SW transects the site, depicted on the 1901-5 ed. OS 6-inch map as a townland boundary with no remains visible to the NW. Not indicated on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN017-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located near the summit of a SE-facing slope in undulating pastureland. A roughly circular area (diam. 30m) very heavily overgrown with scrub, defined by a substantial earth and stone bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.8m) and a deep, wide fosse (Wth 3m; D 1m). A gap (Wth 1.8m) at W appears to be cut through the bank and there is an entrance gap (Wth 2m) in the SE sector. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN017-075 Kiln
  Description

  This site consists of two areas. The western is a rock outcrop that appears to have been used for burning. However, the discolouration may be natural weathering and no significant archaeological remains are apparent. The eastern area has a small charcoal kiln or bowl furnace, possibly with associated stakeholes forming an oven-like structure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN017-076 Habitation site
  Description

  This site consists of three areas. Area 1 includes a large pit and some nearby postholes, perhaps representing a building. Area 2 and Area 3 both include a small number of pits. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN017-093 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Just below the summit of a hill, in upland terrain, the summit is to the E, under pasture with a lot of natural outcrop and boulders. There are turloughs at the base of the hill to the NW and SE. Low, drumlin-like hills. Views are limited to the NNE-E and NW-N, and are good to extensive from SSE-S-W. Borrisnoe Mountain visible to the SW and Black Hill visible to the ESE. A roughly circular enclosure (N-S 30m; E-W 32.4m), identified and reported by Anne-Karoline Distel on satellite imagery (DigitalGlobe; see also Google Earth, imagery date 18 January 2018). It is defined by a stone wall (H above ext. 28m; H above int. 0.26m; Wth 2.55-2.7m), only the foundations of which survive, particularly visible in SSE-W, otherwise the walling presents as a low grass-covered bank. The walling is composed of small boulders (vary in size from H 0.22m x Wth 0.52m to H 0.54m x Wth 0.78m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) in the NE sector. Within the NW quadrant of the interior there is a slightly raised oval platform (dims. 10.4m N-S; 8m E-W; H above int. 0.17m), 3.8m from the inner edge of the enclosure’s wall. An old field boundary with ditch runs c. E-W along the N side, slightly truncating the outer edge of the enclosure. There are a number of boulders in the field, 15.8m to the E of the cashel and others immediately SW of it, these appear to be part of an old field boundary running ENE-WSW which may post-date the cashel and possibly utilised boulders from the cashel. See attached photographs: TN017-093----_01 Overview from SE TN017-093----_02 Detail of walling in S sector from E TN017-093----_03 Detail of walling in S sector external face TN017-093----_03 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 22 November 2021 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 December 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Boola, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Boola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Boola · An Bhuaile

Area

2,186,409 m² (218.64 ha, 540.27 acres)

Civil parish

Bourney, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Rathnaveoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 88 households in the Rathnaveoge electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrine, Ballygorteen, Ballyhenry, Ballyslea, Dangansallagh, Lisglenbeha, Oldcastle, Rathnaveoge Upper

Placenames

Boola 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.