Boley

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boley, from 32 m² to 263,313 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  dwelling house with services, new site entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660466

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of a cattle underpass and with effluent holding tank and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560958

• 25 Nov 2025N/a

  construction of a cattle underpass and with effluent holding tank and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560955

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  adjust the eastern boundary by relocating it 3.8 meters westward. Retention permission is also sought for amendments to previously granted planning reference 20438. These amendments include alterations to the plans, elevations, and positioning of the dwelling and garage on site and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460758

• 28 Nov 2024N/a

  adjust the eastern boundary by relocating it 3.8 meters westward. Retention permission is also sought for amendments to previously granted planning reference 20438. These amendments include alterations to the plans, elevations, and positioning of the dwelling and garage on site and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460748

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  construct a slatted cubicle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works in our farmyard

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23913

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221173

• 11 May 2020Conditional

  single storey dwelling, garage, bored well, waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20438

• 15 Oct 2019Conditional

  agricultural sheds as constructed including a milking parlour and dairy with slatted collecting yard, conversion of sheep shed to cubicle shed and additional cubicle shed with concrete aprons and all associated site works. PERMISSION to construct 2 no entrances to provide livestock crossing and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 191119

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

• WI042-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. Oval enclosure (dims. 26m N-S x 21m E-W) defined by a very poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3-0.5m), shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. No indication of an external fosse, entrance or internal features. 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

• WI042-023 Enclosure
  Description

  On a small level platform c. 25m in diameter on a gentle SW facing slope; there is a more marked SW slope immediately below the site. In improved pasture. No visible surface indication of oval enclosure (c. 35m E-W, 25m N-S) marked on 1st ed. Gentle SW facing slope overlooking steeper slope. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 01 October 2011

• WI042-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a marked NE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. 14.5m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.3-1.9m; H 0.4-1m) revetted by a boulder kerb. There is an additional low revetting wall against the inner face of the bank at SW (upslope) and outer face at the NE (downslope). Stone-faced entrance (Wth 1m) at the SE. 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

At the centre of the townland of Boley, 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 Boley.

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 Boley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Boley · An Bhuaile

Area

2,695,629 m² (269.56 ha, 666.1 acres)

Civil parish

Aghowle, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Aghowle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

262 people lived in 90 households in the Aghowle electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghowle Lower, Aghowle Upper, Ballymarroge, Barnacashel, Coolkenna, Cronelea, Mungacullin, Quigginroe

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.