Bolaboy More
Townland in the civil parish of Meelnagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Bhuaile Bhuí Mhór
- Area
- 149.4 ha
- 369 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 3,206 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolaboy More, from 22 m² to 312,139 m² (31.21 ha, 77.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bolaboy More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for retention is sought from Wexford County Council for the
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260490
19 Jan 2026Refused
Permission for replacement of the existing non-original reed-thatched
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260055
4 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241508
5 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling with services, domestic
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241371
22 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with associated site wor
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211802
9 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211088
25 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, carport, domesti
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201414
12 Nov 2020N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, carport,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201335
24 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic gara
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200824
16 Jul 2020N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic gara
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200793
8 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AN
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190456
18 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171668
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bolaboy More.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bolaboy More.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bolaboy More.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 Bolaboy More.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bolaboy More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bolaboy More · An Bhuaile Bhuí Mhór
- Area
- 1,493,559 m² (149.36 ha, 369.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Meelnagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Bolaboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bolaboy electoral division: 1,252 people in 440 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolaboy Beg, Bolaboy Beg, Garra, Garrymore, Glennagark, Monawilling Lower, Oulart, Slievenagorea, Slievenagrane
- Placenames
- Bolaboy More 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.