Bawnard
Bawnard is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Bán Ard.
- Area
- 63.3 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 4,649 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnard, from 154 m² to 149,952 m² (15 ha, 37.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Bawnard 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
11 Apr 2022Conditional
Permission for the following a) Retention of entrance, b) Demolition of dilapidated dwelling, c) Construction of replacement dwelling, d) Installation of waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/250
27 Apr 2007Refused
Construction of house, septic tank system and all associated site works and which may be used for short term/holiday letting
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1119
28 Jul 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse, septic tank system and all associated site works which may be used for short term /holiday letting
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1479
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 Bawnard.
Recorded monuments
- CO102-047 Field boundary
Description
In rough hill pasture, in a peaty hollow, on a SW-facing slope. The remains of curvilinear, relict, stone field boundaries (T 0.6m; H 0.1-0.4m) protrude above the surface of the bog in a roughly rectangular area (c. 120m NE-SW x c. 30m NW-SE). Many stones are set at right angles to the line of the walls, which occasionally disappear under the deeper bog. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawnard.
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 Bawnard, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bawnard.
- 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 Bawnard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bawnard · An Bán Ard
- Area
- 632,645 m² (63.26 ha, 156.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcatherine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcatherine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 780 people lived in 322 households in the Kilcatherine electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barrees, Caheravart, Commons East, Crumpane, Kilmackowen
- Placenames
- Bawnard 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.