# Bunavory, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Bun an Bhóirígh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 645,130 m² (64.51 ha, 159.42 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tulla, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/tulla.md
- Barony: Tulla Upper
- Electoral division: Tulla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,138 people lived in 437 households in the Tulla electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8018
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30415
- Centre: latitude 52.872134, longitude -8.772901 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunavory, from 95 m² to 187,072 m² (18.71 ha, 46.23 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1435072: 187,072 m² (18.71 ha, 46.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435072.md
- Parcel 1519856: 131,128 m² (13.11 ha, 32.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519856.md
- Parcel 1480934: 50,624 m² (5.06 ha, 12.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1480934.md
- Parcel 1519345: 45,279 m² (4.53 ha, 11.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519345.md
- Parcel 1429884: 41,202 m² (4.12 ha, 10.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429884.md
- Parcel 1437668: 39,464 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437668.md
- Parcel 1436936: 29,392 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436936.md
- Parcel 1436383: 21,331 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436383.md
- Parcel 1430471: 18,390 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430471.md
- Parcel 1435777: 15,131 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435777.md
- Parcel 2647112: 6,151 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2647112.md
- Parcel 5158157: 5,747 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158157.md
- Parcel 1515523: 4,330 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515523.md
- Parcel 1509679: 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509679.md
- Parcel 1509884: 2,441 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509884.md
- Parcel 5158199: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158199.md
- Parcel 1450698: 2,255 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450698.md
- Parcel 1431385: 2,222 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431385.md
- Parcel 1510711: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510711.md
- Parcel 1511490: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1511490.md
- Parcel 1515208: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515208.md
- Parcel 1433681: 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1433681.md
- Parcel 1510234: 2,096 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510234.md
- Parcel 1512152: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512152.md
- Parcel 1433213: 1,993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1433213.md
- Parcel 1432898: 1,985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432898.md
- Parcel 1507627: 1,949 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1507627.md
- Parcel 1447000: 1,915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447000.md
- Parcel 1514797: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514797.md
- Parcel 1518335: 1,746 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518335.md
- Parcel 2753028: 1,733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2753028.md
- Parcel 1447519: 1,703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447519.md
- Parcel 1450862: 1,451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450862.md
- Parcel 1452305: 1,436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1452305.md
- Parcel 1510190: 1,329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510190.md
- Parcel 1516271: 1,241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516271.md
- Parcel 1506413: 957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1506413.md
- Parcel 1447948: 940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447948.md
- Parcel 5609582: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5609582.md
- Parcel 2611072: 723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2611072.md
- Parcel 5158156: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158156.md
- Parcel 1510427: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510427.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare; 24 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442
- P1 Agriculture: Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442
- R1 Residential (New/proposed residential): Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442
- G3 Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442
- G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 29 May 2026, Clare County Council 26147: Conditional. Permission. to modify existing entrance to include new agricultural gate entrance alongside relocated vehicular entrance along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/26147/0
- 24 Nov 2022, Clare County Council 221058: Conditional. Permission, 30 homes. for a variation of house designs, house nos. 6 to 36 inclusive, previously granted under Planning Ref: P19/765. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221058/0
- 4 Oct 2019, Clare County Council 19765: Conditional. Permission, 36 homes. to construct 37 dwelling houses consisting of 3 two bedroom single storey semi detached/terraced houses, 6 three bedroom single storey detached houses, 6 four bedroom two storey semi detached houses and 22 four bedroom two storey detached houses including all associated roads, services, foul water pumping station, landscaping and road improvement works along front of site including new footpaths and re aligned junction with the R462. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19765/0
- 10 Dec 2018, Clare County Council 181017: Conditional. Permission. to (a) RETAIN as constructed modifications to existing dwelling house and associated site works, (b) RETAIN existing detached garden building incorporating home studio and associated site works, (c) PERMISSION is sought to extend, alter and refurbish existing dwelling house, including all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181017/0
- 30 Mar 2017, Clare County Council 17229: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish existing derelict dwelling and for permission to construct new dwellinghouse, entrances, foul sewer treatment system and percolation area, plus all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17229/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bunavory.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL035-018: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL035-018----. In improved and recently de-scrubbed pasture, overlooking a short sharp slope to SSW. The monument is depicted and named on all OS historic mapping as ‘Bunavory Castle (in ruins)’. Salter (2004, 56) and Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) indicate that it was the seat of the MacClancy’s who were brehons to the O’Briens of Thomond. It was held by Donough MacClancy in 1574 and by Sir Roland Delahoyde in 1641 who was married to a daughter of MacClancy of Inch Castle (Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997, 1-2). Bunavory was forfeited in the Cromwellian settlement and granted to Philip Bigoe (ibid., 2). The monument consists of a small rectangular structure (9.5m WNW-ESE; 7m NNE-SSW) defined by the poorly preserved remains of low, rubble limestone walls which are sod covered for the most part. The lower portions are degraded by cattle in places resulting in some loose tumble along the base of the walls. Very few facing-stones survive and the rubble core is exposed for the most part. The WNW wall (L 7m; min. H 1.2m (in centre); max. H 1.8m (at SSW end); T 0.7m) is the best preserved of all the four walls, having a squared facing-stone in the centre and other smaller squared facing-stones immediately adjacent. Most of the facing-stones are missing from the NNE wall (L 9.5m; min. H 0.75m; max. H 1.8m; T 1.0m), except at the base, where there are some long, squared blocks having mortar and possibly fragments of render on the exterior. It is degraded by cattle along the base. The ESE wall (L 7m; min. H 0.4m at SSW end; max. H 1.1m at NNE end) is covered in loose embanked material which is pushed up against it. The thickness of this wall is unclear due to collapse of rubble inwards. The NE basal quoinstone is missing and fresh soil is exposed. The remains of a base-batter are evident at the foot of this wall, at the NNE end. The SSW wall (L 9.5m; min. H 0.85m; max. H 1.8m; T 0.9m) is best preserved at the WNW end. A small gap (Wth c. 0.8m) at the NW end of the NNE wall allows access into the interior, which appears to be a single room. The interior floor level is much higher and more uneven than the external ground level suggesting that it has a backfill of earth-covered rubble. The interior is almost choked with vegetation consisting of numerous young thorns, a mature thorn and an ash tree. According to local information, stone from the castle was removed to build local roads and potentially Bunavory House and outbuildings c. 270m to NE. The following items have been uploaded: CL035-018----_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. CL035-018----_01.jpg From WNW. General view of monument (if zoom in on this shot can see church on Tulla Hill). CL035-018----_02.jpg From SSW. Elevation of SSW wall at WNW end. CL035-018----_03.jpg From WNW. Close view of squared facing stone in centre of WNW elevation. CL035-018----_04.jpg From WNW. General view of WNW elevation. CL035-018----_05.jpg From SSW. General view of SSW elevation. CL035-018----_06.jpg From NNE. Cross sectional view of intact portion of base batter at NNE end of ESE elevation. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 January 2019
- CL035-019: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL035-019----. Within a modern, level farmyard, abutting a vernacular farmyard to N. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W) defined by a single bank. Not visible at ground level. The ground has been built up across this location to make a level farmyard surface. Modern sheds and structures are built at this location upon the ‘made ground’ where the ground level has been raised along the SE and NE sides of the farmyard to compensate for hillslope. As the whole area beneath the modern farmyard is artificially raised, it is likely that the levelled monument still exists below this, albeit heavily compacted. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 July 2018
- CL035-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL035-021----. In generally level, improved pasture, with rock outcrop close to the surface. Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 58m) on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as an oval enclosure (c. 55m NW-SE; c. 37m NE-SW) on the 25-inch and 1921 editions where it is truncated by a townland boundary across the SE sector. During archaeological assessment nearby Rooney (2007, 19-20) noted that ‘The site today is represented by a low bank located in the corner of the field. The bank may represent the W side of the monument marked on the 3rd edition map however no other trace of the monument survives’. Rooney (ibid.) continues, ‘The grassed over bank measures c. 34m in length, 4.7m in width and c. 0.76m high….and appears to curve to the NNW. The field in which the monument is located appears to have been reclaimed and it is most likely that the enclosure was almost completely levelled in the process.’ On inspection in 2017 the monument was not visible at ground level. The enclosure site is bisected by a field boundary (long-axis NW-SE). A townland boundary (long-axis ENE-WSW) truncates the SE sector of the area as per historic mapping. No trace of the monument is evident on either side of it. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 November 2017

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bunavory, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunavory.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/bunavory.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/bunavory.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/bunavory.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Bunavory, Tulla: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/clare/bunavory-tulla.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cloonaleary: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonaleary.md
- Cragg: https://everytownland.com/clare/cragg.md
- Doonaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/doonaun.md
- Knockdrumleague: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockdrumleague.md
- Poulaforia: https://everytownland.com/clare/poulaforia.md
- Rine: https://everytownland.com/clare/rine-32063.md
- Tulla: https://everytownland.com/clare/tulla-32249.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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