Boleynass Upper
Boleynass Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Buaile an Easa Uachtarach.
- Area
- 64.6 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,635 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boleynass Upper, from 39 m² to 160,848 m² (16.08 ha, 39.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Boleynass Upper 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
1 Oct 2025Conditional
permission for the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560774
3 Aug 2023Conditional
existing dwelling as constructed on site, attached garage as built, 2 domestic sheds as built, well in new location, sewage system in new location and associate works including site boundaries and driveways
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360199
23 Mar 2022Conditional
new domestic garage & associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22279
15 Nov 2021Conditional
dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211362
7 May 2021Conditional
proposed new front porch (5.60 sqm.) to front of existing dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21530
20 Jul 2018Refused
importation and deposition of inert subsoil and topsoil for land profiling and recontouring purposes, construction of a new entrance, installation of temporary site office and canteen, portaloo and temporary wheelwash, including all ancillary site works at an existing agricultural holding of 3.09 ha. The purpose of this work is to improve the site for agriculture. A waste facility permit is required for this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18833
17 Apr 2018Refused
rural dwelling house and garage, entrance with sightlines, wastewater treatment to EPA standards, associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18396
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Devil's Glen 000718
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boleynass Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boleynass Upper.
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 Boleynass Upper, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3319 (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 Boleynass Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Boleynass Upper · Buaile an Easa Uachtarach
- Area
- 645,702 m² (64.57 ha, 159.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Killiskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,637 people lived in 570 households in the Killiskey electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagolan, Boleynass Lower, Knockadreet, Tiglin
- Placenames
- Boleynass Upper 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.