Bunnagurragh
Townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow; in Irish Bun na gCurrach
- Area
- 21 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 1,743 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnagurragh, from 112 m² to 40,518 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bunnagurragh 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
17 Dec 2025Refused
unauthorised site development works to include the removal of trees and vegetation & the construction of a hard standing area. I also wish to apply for Permission for the construction of a stable block consisting of 4 no. stables, the construction of a dungstead and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560417
21 Dec 2021Conditional
retention permission is sought for extensions to existing dwelling and retention of existing domestic garage and storage area and associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21511
4 Aug 2017Conditional
the demolition of an existing derelict farmhouse and associated outbuildings and the construction of a new two storey house with domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17237
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnagurragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnagurragh.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2776 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bunnagurragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnagurragh · Bun na gCurrach
- Area
- 210,089 m² (21.01 ha, 51.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Cranemore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cranemore electoral division: 1,218 people in 418 households; 74% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickduff, Deerpark Old, Glebe
- Placenames
- Bunnagurragh 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.