Boolabaun

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolabaun, from 77 m² to 566,178 m² (56.62 ha, 139.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Boolabaun 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.

• 4 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221301

• 21 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210964

• 14 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fullt serviced dwelling house & garage with associate

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201551

• 17 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200438

• 21 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A REPLACEMENT CLUBHOUSE FACILITY WITH 4 DRESSING ROOMS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190875

• 28 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING STORM DAMAGED CLUBHOUSE AND MAKE SAFE EXISTING S

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181634

• 13 Nov 2018N/a

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING STORM DAMAGED CLUBHOUSE AND MAKE SAFE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181555

• 20 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180325

• 28 Feb 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180244

• 26 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE DEPOSITION OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170811

• 25 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECT A FULLY SERVICED BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, BORED WELL,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160846

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 Boolabaun.

Recorded monuments

• WX025-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AOX 50, ASW 72; MM (62) 22-5) and it is also visible on the OSI series of photographs (2005). Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018) 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: 2 July 2012 Amended: 25 Apri, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Rossdroit House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1814, on a rectangular plan; three-bay full-height rear (east) elevation. Sold, 1900. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, 1980. Replacement flat-topped hipped fibre-cement slate roof with pressed iron ridges extending into clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls bellcast over rendered base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of seven cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings, timber doorcase with reeded pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice, and concealed dressings having "rock faced" concave reveals framing timber panelled door having sidelights on risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed central window opening (east) with concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.

• Ballybane House, farm house, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1843, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (south). Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (south) with pressed or rolled lead ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks having rendered red brick stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves retaining wrought iron brackets. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with granite flagged threshold, doorcase with three quarter-engaged columns on plinths supporting broken cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to side elevations with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four (ground floor) or two-over-four (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds including shallow terrace centred on flight of three steps.

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 Boolabaun, about 1 in 5 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 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 Boolabaun.

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 Boolabaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Boolabaun · An Bhuaile Bhán

Area

3,166,744 m² (316.67 ha, 782.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rossdroit, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

The Leap, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,029 people lived in 355 households in the The Leap electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyeden, Ballyeland, Ballyknockan, Coolamurry, Davidstown, Moneytucker

Placenames

Boolabaun 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.