# Buncraggy, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clareabbey, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Bun Craige. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,735,721 m² (173.57 ha, 428.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,192 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): O2 Cluster, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clareabbey, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/clareabbey.md - Barony: Islands - Electoral division: Clareabbey, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clareabbey electoral division: 3,541 people in 1,334 households; 78% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6098 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30416 - Centre: latitude 52.788005, longitude -8.993589 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncraggy, from 1,611 m² to 859,892 m² (85.99 ha, 212.48 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1508822: 859,892 m² (85.99 ha, 212.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508822.md - Parcel 1442401: 838,763 m² (83.88 ha, 207.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442401.md - Parcel 1497990: 11,655 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1497990.md - Parcel 1499389: 9,243 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499389.md - Parcel 1441622: 5,142 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441622.md - Parcel 3192232: 3,241 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3192232.md - Parcel 1503189: 2,991 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503189.md - Parcel 1429247: 2,566 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429247.md - Parcel 1513870: 1,665 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513870.md - Parcel 4609169: 1,611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4609169.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - O2 Cluster (General): Buncraggy Cluster, Clare; 4 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=97 - O2 Cluster (General): Barntick Cluster, Clare; 3 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=97 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Jan 2024, Clare County Council 2460019: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage, complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460019/0 - 16 Oct 2018, Clare County Council 18813: Conditional. Retention. to RETAIN domestic shed and a log cabin gym and sauna within the curtilage of existing home. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18813/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Buncraggy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buncraggy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Buncraggy House, country house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 20404104, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CL®no=20404104. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch, single-bay full-height canted bay windows and four-bay two-storey lower return to rear. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Red brick walls to right hand side bay window. Timber sliding sash windows. Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding with segmental-headed door opening having cut-stone surround and keystone. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with tripartite window openings, now derelict. Cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_505, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_505.zip (ZIP). - 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/buncraggy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/buncraggy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/buncraggy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Buncraggy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyveskil: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyveskil.md - Barntick: https://everytownland.com/clare/barntick.md - Feagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/feagh.md - Islandavanna Upper (Intake): https://everytownland.com/clare/islandavanna-upper-intake.md - Islandmagrath: https://everytownland.com/clare/islandmagrath.md - Lissan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/lissan-west.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/buncraggy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/buncraggy