Boolabrien Upper

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolabrien Upper, from 1,531 m² to 1,059,132 m² (105.91 ha, 261.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Boolabrien Upper 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Conditional

  amendments to the fenestration of the holiday accommodation as granted planning permission under reference 2560370 by providing windows to the walls instead of providing roof windows and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660244

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  existing storage building as constructed , the existing gazebo on site and for PLANNING PERMISSION for a change of use of this building to holiday accommodation, install roof lights to the front and rear of the roof, install a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area to serve this building and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560370

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 Boolabrien Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WA005-006 Enclosure
  Description

  This enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (SMR file). Not identified at ground level. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of upload/revision: 6 March 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Boolabrien Upper.

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 Boolabrien Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Boolabrien Upper · Buaile Bhriain Uachtarach

Area

2,338,669 m² (233.87 ha, 577.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Ballymacarbry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacarbry electoral division: 575 people in 186 households; 84% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacarbry, Boolabrien Lower, Clonanav, Curraheenavoher, Knockalisheen, Russellstown, Russellstown New

Placenames

Boolabrien Upper 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.