Tunker
Townland in the civil parish of Annagh, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan; in Irish Tionchar
- Area
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 5,727 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tunker, from 1,095 m² to 134,199 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Tunker 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
26 Feb 2021Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning reg no 19/406, the proposed alterations are to the proposed side extension and include changes to the floor plan, materials fenestration and roof profile
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2191
24 Oct 2019Conditional
for the refurbishment and alteration of the existing house. The demolition of existing single-storey outhouses and sheds. The construction of a new extension; part two-storey and part single-storey, to the side. The construction of a separate single-storey guest lodge for uses ancillary to the main house and farm. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19406
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tunker.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tunker.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tunker.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tunker.
- 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 Tunker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Tunker · Tionchar
- Area
- 517,409 m² (51.74 ha, 127.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Grilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Grilly electoral division: 512 people in 165 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreary, Derryarmush, Drumalee, Druminisclin, Drummoy, Grilly, Kinagha Beg
- Placenames
- Tunker 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.