Boley Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Rossminoge, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Bhuaile Íochtarach
- Area
- 104.9 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 14,751 m² (1.48 ha, 3.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley Lower, from 76 m² to 141,207 m² (14.12 ha, 34.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Boley Lower 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
1 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250811
4 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dormer bungalow with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250121
16 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for alterations to the design and size of a house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241119
27 Aug 2024N/a
Permission for retention for alterations to the design of a house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241025
24 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, a domestic garage and a
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220069
17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211466
13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210036
13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210037
22 Dec 2020N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201611
22 Dec 2020N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated s
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201610
23 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200456
28 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180721
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 Boley Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boley Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boley Lower.
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 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 Boley Lower.
- 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 Boley Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Boley Lower · An Bhuaile Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,048,960 m² (104.9 ha, 259.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossminoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Rossminoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rossminoge electoral division: 683 people in 219 households; 88% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintim, Ballyduffbeg, Ballyshaun, Boley Upper, Camolin Park, Carriglegan, Rossminoge South
- Placenames
- Boley Lower 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.