Buolick

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buolick, from 593 m² to 245,085 m² (24.51 ha, 60.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Buolick 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 Buolick 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 Buolick.

Recorded monuments

• TS048-020 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  The Down Survey map (1655-58) depicts three houses in the vicintiy of Buolick tower house (TS048-020001-) and church (TS048-020002-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to the castle and 'some cabbins wanting repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 128). There are well-preserved earthworks in the walled garden immediately W of the tower house, however, these appear to be related to the early 18th-century occupation of Buolick Castle by William Barker, who was living there in 1707 (Neely 2005, 45). The precise location of the settlement associated with the ringwork (TS048-020003-), tower house and medieval church is not known. However, it is possible that it occupied a large raised flat-topped ridge running N-S (dims. c. 400m N-S; c. 120m E-W) immediately S of the tower house. Identified on Bing Maps (Http://binged.it/1bzQyNu), the ridge is defined by gradual scarp (max. H 1.65m) with a series of enclosures along the eastern side defined by low banks with evidence of stone-facing and possible walling, mostly sod covered. These enclosures vary in size (dims. c. 20-50m N-S x c. 13-33m E-W) and tend to be U-shaped, being open towards the W. Approximately half way along the eastern side, below the ridge and c. 9m from the edge, there are two parallel banks (E bank ext. H to E 0.25m; ext. H to W 0.5m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 3.8m; W bank H 0.35m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 3m) running N-S for c. 60m. These narrow towards the northern end where they are terminated by scarp (Wth 5m) running E-W. The southern end is open, the banks simply petering out. The northern end of this ridge is within a field that had been recently tilled when visited. The lower eastern portion of the field, below the ridge, was very stony while the ridge itself was markedly stone free. The southern portion of the ridge is in pasture. The remnants of ridge and furrow, running E-W, are visible all along the ridge. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 6 May 2015

• TS048-020001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In relatively flat terrain, with earthworks immediately W of the tower house, with good views in all directions, a ringwork and bailey (TS048-020003-) is visible on a ridge 200m to the E and a church (TS048-020002-) and graveyard (TS048-020004-) are visible c. 170m to the WSW. A marginal entry in the Laud Misc. 610 gives the construction date for the tower house as 1452, stating that it was built in the year the Earl of Ormond died on St. Bartholomew's Day (that being James Butler the 4th Earl), 'by the son of Richard [Butler] in the same year' (Dillon 1963, 147). The Civil Survey (1654-6) gives James Earle of Ormond as the proprietor of Buolick in 1640 and states that 'Upon this land stands a good castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 128). William Barker of Kilcooley was living in the castle in 1707 (Neely 2005, 45). This rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 11.68m N-S; 9.77m E-W; S wall T 1.8m; N wall T 1.85m; E wall T 1.74m) is built with limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with good cut-stone quoins and a base-batter. Three storeys survive, with a pointed vault over the ground floor and a high barrel vault over the second floor which has been adapted as a roof. On the exterior W wall an incised roof scar of a later building extends at a 45 degree angle from beneath the first-floor window northward up to the present roof level, the S wall of which appears to have been keyed into the wall beneath the first-floor window where masonry has been removed, and there appears to be a crude line of floor joists c. 1.2m above the doorway. This later building may have been erected when the tower house was re-occupied in the early 18th century by William Barker (Neely 2005, 11). The tower house was entered through a pointed doorway, at the N end of the W wall, which has yett holes at the apex and in the S recess. This leads into a lobby which was protected by an overhead murder-hole accessed from a wall cupboard at first-floor level. The lobby gave access to the ground floor chamber opposite and to a mural stair which rises in the W wall. The ground floor (dims. 7.23m N-S; 5m E-W) was lit by three cross-loops, those in the N and E wall flat-headed and that in the S wall round-headed, all within round-headed embrasures. There are wall cupboards at N and S ends of the E wall. The mural stairs is lit by a flat-headed window at the W end of the S wall and it continues to rise in the S wall. Access to the first floor is through a pointed doorway in the SW angle from the stairs. There is a slop-stone in the wall of the stairwell opposite this doorway. The first-floor chamber (dims. 7.66m N-S; 5.36m E-W) was lit by three windows, a flat-headed single light towards the S end of the W wall, a pointed single light at the E end of the S wall and a broken-out window in the E wall, all within round-headed embrasures which continue to floor level. There was a fireplace, now broken out, N of centre in the W wall, the flue of which is visible rising through the vault. In the NE angle there was a doorway, now broken out, which accessed an L-shaped garderobe chamber. The garderobe chamber (L 4.8m E-W; Wth 0.93m; H 2.02m) is lit by two flat-headed loops, at the N end of the E wall and E end of the N wall, and one very small, flat-headed loop near the centre of the N wall. The chamber terminates W of centre of the N wall of the tower house and the chute exits at the base of this wall. The second floor was carried on wooden beams, the surviving corbel supports for which are in the E and W wall. It is entered from the mural stairs via a flat-headed doorway with a door recess cut into the vault. The chamber is lit by a flat-headed single light roughly centrally placed in the N wall. There is a blocked up fireplace mid-way along the E wall which has been built into the vault. The mural stairs continues beyond the second-floor doorway up to the SE angle but the building does not survive above the vault over the second-floor. At the second-floor landing there are three put-log holes, two of which are opposing, which possibly supported a framework for an internal defence. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS048-020002 Church
  Description

  On a low N-S ridge in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. Buolick tower house (TS048-020001-) is visible 166m to the ENE and a ringwork and bailey (TS048-020003-) is visible 376m to the E. Buolick is mentioned in the Register of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist without the New Gate throughout the 13th century, from c. 1210 up to the early 14th century (Brooks 1936) and is listed in the Papal taxation records in c. 1302 and 1306 (Sweetman and Handcock 1886, vol. 5, 285, 317). A multi-period nave (ext. dims. 23.4m x 10.22m; wall T 1.06-1.15m) and chancel (ext. dims. 9.65m x 7.68m) church, orientated E-W, with a three-storey tower (ext. dims. 4.72m E-W; 6.24m N-S) at the W end. It is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with occasional blocks of sandstone. There is a base-batter which varies in height and depth (H 1.3-2.4m; Wth 0.2-0.48m) and a projecting basal plinth (H 0.2m; Wth 0.3m) in places. The chancel is a later, possibly 14th or early 15th century, addition as it clearly abuts the pre-existing harled surface of the E wall of the nave. The church was re-modelled in the late 15th/16th century as the doorways and windows have punch-dressing within drafted margins, typical of this period. The church has two opposing pointed doorways at the W end of the N and S walls, both with hanging-eyes on the W side. Internally, immediately E of the S doorway and projecting from the wall, there is an unusual limestone stoup with a circular basin within a semi-decagonal surround resting on a similarly profiled pyramidal corbel. The nave is lit by two single-light ogee-headed windows towards the E end of the N and S walls. The chancel is entered through a pointed arch with chamfered edges with an inner chamfered arch resting on pyramidal corbels. The chancel is lit by three windows consisting of a round-headed window in the N and S walls, the latter with a hood-moulding, and a two-light ogee-headed window in the E gable within a chamfered box surround with hood-moulding. The E window has been inserted into an earlier embrasure. The sandstone piscina, which has a slightly pointed surround with a rounded edge, is probably contemporary with the building of the chancel. The basin is missing and a slate base has been inserted. The church has been heavily reconstructed and the SW angle of the nave appears to be a complete rebuild. The W tower was probably added at the same time as the chancel. Originally it appears to have been lower with a gabled roof, the outline of which is visible in the external W face below the present crenellated battlements. Most of the E and S wall of the tower have collapsed. The crude loops in the surviving W wall of the tower suggest that this was a bell-tower rather than a residential tower. The ground floor was lit by a loop in the S wall and another, now blocked internally by a wall monument, in the W wall. Over the ground floor a pointed vault has been which partially blocks a first-floor loop in the W wall, visible externally, and there is a loop in the S wall. The second floor has a larger loop in the W wall and one in the N wall. High up in the second floor, in the E wall, there are the remains of the voussoirs and side wall of an arched opening. Within the church there are headstones dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 09 January 2012

• TS048-020003 Castle - ringwork and bailey
  Description

  On the N summit of a N-S ridge which is the highest point for some distance with very good views in all directions. The manor of Buolick was held by Mannaseur Arsic in 1200 and in 1307 by John Assyk. The ringwork consists of a high central mound enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.68m; ext. H 5.5m), with a deep fosse (Wth 4m; D 10m) and a high round-topped outer bank (Wth crest 4.8m; Wth base 16m; ext. H 1.85m) of stoney gravel on the S side. The outer bank is at its highest on the S side where it slopes with the natural fall of the ridge. There is a slight depression at the apex of the bank in the S (Wth 3m). There are sloe bushes encroaching in the SW sector and the fosse is heavily overgrown with sloes and blackthorn bushes in the SW and SE quadrants. There is some cattle erosion on the slopes of the outer bank and on the side of the ringwork. In the SW quadrant the fosse is shallow (Wth 2.75m; D 0.41m) and the bank peters out and is only evident as a broad, low rise (Wth crest 1.5m; Wth base 10m; ext. H 1.26m and ground continues to slope naturally). In the E quadrant there appears to be an outer ledge c. 1m below the crest of the inner bank. The interior is heavily overgrown with sloes, blackthorn, elder etc, though the floor of the interior is relatively free from undergrowth, though there is a lot of moss. The interior is fairly level though there are a number of badger sets with mounds of upcast. In the NE quadrant there is a lower level area (9.7m x 2.5m) and in the W quadrant there appears to be a depression. There is a possible, roughly triangular-shaped, bailey area (dims. 49m N-S; 30m E-W) N of the ringwork (H of mound above bailey 7.3m). It is defined by to the W by a scarp (H 2.35m), fosse (Wth 4.6m D 0.41m) and round-topped bank (Wth crest 2.9m; Wth base 7.5m; ext. H 0.88m) running NE-SW for 100m and by scarp to the N and E. Within this possible bailey the higher ground at the base of the mound slopes gently for 12m and then drops by 2m over the remaining distance of 12m. The outer bank of the possible bailey may relate to a large enclosure, probably a relict field, immediately W of the scarp rather than to the bailey. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS048-020004 Graveyard
  Description

  On a lower N-S ridge in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. Buolick church (TS048-020002-) stands at the N edge of the present graveyard which forms a roughly D-shaped area (dims. 70m E-W; 40m N-S) S of the church. The graveyard is delineated by a stone wall with a gate in the S section. It appears that the graveyard was formally larger, extending northwards (dims. 60m E-W; 45m N-S) forming a large sub-oval area (dims. 70m E-W; 85m N-S), the northern portion of which is defined by a scarp (H 0.52m; Wth c. 6m). There is another area (dims. 30m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.5m; Wth c. 4m) immediately W of the graveyard wall which may also be part of the original graveyard. The walled graveyard is still used for burials. Both within the church and the graveyard are headstones dating from the 18th century onwards. The earliest noted dates to 1750 and is located against the W wall of the chancel arch of the church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 09 January 2013

• TS048-021 Castle - motte
  Description

  On top of a natural gravel mound in an upland region with good views in all directions. A large impressive motte which has been almost totally destroyed by quarrying between 1973 and 1975. Originally a flat-topped mound (approx. top dims. 20.3m x 23.6m; H 2m above fosse; 4m above external ground) defined by a scarp with a wide flat-bottomed fosse (base Wth 10m; ext. D 1m) and external earth and stone bank (base Wth 6m; top Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m). Gravel quarrying has quarried away most of the motte and the enclosing fosse and bank from S through W to N, only a portion of the enclosing bank, fosse and E side of mound survives. This was probably because of the close proximity to the public road which curves around the enclosing bank and fosse to the E of the motte. The motte is very overgrown with upcast on the E end which obscures all original features. The gravel quarry surrounds the partial remains of the monument from S through W to N. An aerial photograph (CUCAP ADZ 76, July 1966) shows how impressive the motte was and the close proximity of a gravel quarry to the N of the monument in 1966, this quarry eventually moved southwards and resulted in the partial destruction of the motte between 1974 and 1976. A field report of the destruction in 1976 reports the digging of a pit on top of the mound inside which were found antler bone, an iron knife and a perforated stone (NMI file 1976). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Buolick, about 1 in 10 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 the townland of Buolick.

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

Name

Buolick · Buailic

Area

2,019,357 m² (201.94 ha, 498.99 acres)

Civil parish

Buolick, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Buolick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

697 people lived in 261 households in the Buolick electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnreagh, Clonoura, Coole, Crab, Derrycoogh, Gortnahoo

Placenames

Buolick 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.