Boolycreen
Boolycreen is a townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile Chríon.
- Area
- 13.9 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 9,551 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolycreen, from 3,036 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 61,773 m² (6.18 ha, 15.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Boolycreen 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
24 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211828
21 Oct 2021Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211628
30 Sept 2021N/a
Premission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & a fully serviced dwell
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211527
1 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190915
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boolycreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boolycreen.
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 Boolycreen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2777 (ZIP).
- 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 Boolycreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Boolycreen · An Bhuaile Chríon
- Area
- 138,702 m² (13.87 ha, 34.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 787 people lived in 263 households in the St. Mary's electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnahask (Co. Carlow), Boolynavoughran, Glaslacken
- Placenames
- Boolycreen 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.