Bolinrush
Bolinrush is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Buaile an Rois.
- Area
- 371.7 ha
- 918 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 6,215 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolinrush, from 119 m² to 360,515 m² (36.05 ha, 89.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bolinrush 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
4 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250255
21 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220520
29 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211852
28 Oct 2021Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211668
13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210023
29 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200693
15 Jun 2020Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200627
31 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, HANDLING & DRAFTING AREA AND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171175
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 Bolinrush.
Recorded monuments
- WX005-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope and overlooking a col to the NE. Circular grass and fern-covered area (diam. 24m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.5m), with traces of an external fosse at E. This is surrounded by a berm (Wth c. 12m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m), an external fosse and and an outer counterscarp bank (max. ext. diam. c. 60m). There is an entrance (Wth 4m) through the inner bank at NW, and there is an entrance (Wth 4.5m) through the middle bank at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 29 February 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bolinrush.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bolinrush, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bolinrush.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bolinrush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bolinrush · Buaile an Rois
- Area
- 3,716,793 m² (371.68 ha, 918.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Ballybeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 630 people lived in 198 households in the Ballybeg electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeg, Ballycadden Lower, Ballycadden Upper, Ballynancoran, Ballyroebuck, Ballytarsna, Kiltilly, Knocknalour
- Placenames
- Bolinrush 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.