Boley

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley, from 1,012 m² to 274,700 m² (27.47 ha, 67.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Boley 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  (A) Construction of single storey extension to Front (north) Elevation and Side (east) Elevation consisting of new front entrance hallway, bedroom, utility room all connecting to the existing house, (B) Changes to the existing room layout with alterations to the front door and replaced with new window to match existing window style to Front (north) Elevation, (C) Alterations to the existing window fenestration and the replacement of a new sliding doors on the Side (west) Elevation with a glazed balcony surround, due to the sloped nature of the site and (D) the existing entrance into the existing house is to be permanently closed up with a new location on site for a double recessed vehicular entrance to serve the house and the agricultural land in the applicants ownership and all associated site work

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560522

• 2 Jul 2025N/a

  (A) construction of single storey extension to front (north) elevation and side (east) elevation consisting of new front entrance hallway, bedroom, utility room all connecting to the existing house, (B) changes to the existing room layout with alterations to the front door and replaced with new window to match existing window style to front (north) elevation and (C) alterations to the existing window fenestration and the insertion of new sliding doors on the side (west) elevation

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560492

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 Boley.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated about 400m SSE of Coolinarrig graveyard (WI027-027003-). The well has been diverted into a field drain, now marked by an alder tree. According to the OS Name Books the pattern had ceased around 1790. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boley.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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.

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.

No address of the register names Boley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Boley · Buaile Choill na Manach

Area

929,041 m² (92.9 ha, 229.57 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Eadestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Eadestown electoral division: 215 people in 73 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleylug, Coolinarrig Lower, Coolinarrig Upper, Deerpark, Downings, Pinnacle, Woodfield, Woodfieldglen

Placenames

Boley 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.