Booley
Booley is a townland in the civil parish of Templetown, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile.
- Area
- 91.5 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 6,969 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Booley, from 26 m² to 103,035 m² (10.3 ha, 25.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Booley 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
13 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260601
20 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the relocation of site boundaries previously granted permission
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230415
2 Dec 2022Refused
Permission for retention of the existing agricultural entrance and side fencing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221598
9 Mar 2022Refused
Permission for retention of the existing entrance and full planning permission
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220294
22 Dec 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20212036
15 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211128
15 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND GARAGE AND ALL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180817
12 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR VARIATIONS TO APPROVED SINGLE STOREY HOUSE DESIGN AND THE POSITIO
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160494
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- WX049-029 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
Not yet visited this is a west-facing triangular promontory flanked by 50’ high cliffs and sandy beaches. The straight field boundary with curving edges running across the broad neck is deserving of closer examination as the location and nature of the visible remains suggests a possible promontory fort. The area is one of low-lying fertile grassland and tillage. (Casey 2001) Date of upload: 20 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Booley.
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 Booley, 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 Booley.
- 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 Booley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Booley · An Bhuaile
- Area
- 915,109 m² (91.51 ha, 226.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Templetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 840 people lived in 261 households in the Templetown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aldridge, Ballinphile, Ballinruan, Broomhill, Knockanduff, Lewistown
- Placenames
- Booley 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.