Boolabaun

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolabaun, from 23 m² to 375,319 m² (37.53 ha, 92.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Boolabaun 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  an extension & alterations to existing dwelling house, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660618

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 Boolabaun.

Recorded monuments

• TN017-063 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated at the base of a N-facing slope in level terrain, incorporated in a farmyard. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'an old castle out of repayre' with 'Thomas Magher of Bollybane' listed as proprietor (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 9). A four-storey tower house (ext. dims. c. 8.6m NE-SW; wall T 2.15m) built of sandstone with limestone surrounds and cut-stone quoins. Farm buildings abut the NE and SE faces with the shadow of another gable abutting the latter face at roughly first-floor level. Elsewhere the exterior is largely obscured by ivy. The tower house is built on a stone plinth which projects out 0.2m from the external face and there is a slight base-batter (Wth c. 0.15m; H 1.4m). There is a bad crack down the wall on the SE face. The entrance is through a round-headed doorway (H 1.65m) placed off-centre at ground-floor level on the NW wall, near the W angle. It is 1.1m H above the external ground level. The doorway has an external double chamfer and is decorated with vertical punch-tooling within margins. This leads into a lobby, with a flat-arched recess immediately to the SW, the doorway to the ground-floor chamber opposite and a doorway leading to a stair passage to the NE. This vaulted passage is in a very poor state of repair and has already partially collapsed. The ground-floor chamber is lit by three single-light windows, two of which are blocked up and one is broken out. The spiral stairs which rise in the N angle are badly broken up to first-floor level and are destroyed beyond this. An L-shaped garderobe chamber, entered from the stairs, runs along the NE face at first-floor level. It is lit by three single lights - the window near the N angle has a slop-stone beneath the sill. The chute is situated in the return near the E angle. The first floor is lit by flat and ogee-headed single lights. An embrasure in the SW wall appears to have been blocked-up, perhaps soon after its construction, and a corbel inserted into this blocking. The blocked ogee-headed window with cusped spandrel is visible on the exterior. The second floor is lit by single-light windows. In the E wall of the NE window embrasure there is a doorway giving access to a garderobe chamber. According to Stout (1984, 130) there 'appears to be another mural passage running off the second floor and alongside the west section of wall which is inaccessible'. In the SW wall there is a broken-out embrasure which appears to be hollow behind. This is a possible fireplace with the S side splayed. There are putlogs on either side to support a lintel. A blocked-up pointed embrasure lies immediately W of this - the W jamb of the possible fireplace forms part of the blocking of this embrasure. The third floor has no visible opes, though a broken-out section may have contained a window. Small mural chambers in the NW wall were accessed from the spiral stairs at first, second and third-floor levels. The first floor rests on a vault, the second and third floors are timber carried on corbels with a barrel vault above the third floor. There is a well c. 100m SE of the tower house which is surrounded by a circular stone wall. According to the ITA survey of 1943 'an underground drain leads to two crudely built, stone reservoirs beside castle and situated on ground higher than base of castle. From the “reservoirs” a surface drain still flows by castle wall and perhaps in olden days this also might have been covered, assuring an abundant supply of fresh water to inhabitants' (OPW files). 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

• TN017-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the gentle W-facing slope of a low, roughly NE-SW ridge, in gently undulating terrain, under pasture. The site was levelled in 1983 (Stout 1984, 42), but the E side (diam. c. 34m NW-SE) is still visible as a platform (H 0.22m) enclosed by a shallow fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.13m) and a low, much flattened outer bank (Wth c. 4m) and possible external fosse. There is a possible causewayed entrance in the SE sector (Wth c. 3.5m). Faint traces of both banks were still visible during the Ikerrin Survey (ibid.). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Boolabaun · An Bhuaile Bhán

Area

3,001,946 m² (300.19 ha, 741.8 acres)

Civil parish

Bourney, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Bourney East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bourney East electoral division: 317 people in 112 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghsmear, Ballynough, Bawnmadrum, Bawnmadrum North, Behaghglass, Camlin, Gortmullin, Lismakin, Loran, Shanballynahagh

Placenames

Boolabaun 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.