Bunskellig

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunskellig, from 39 m² to 476,125 m² (47.61 ha, 117.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bunskellig 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.

• 5 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for (1) Demolition of existing lean-to garage, pig shed, flat-roofed rear extension, and store (2) Construction of single storey side extension, two-storey rear extension, plant room and single-storey domestic garage, and (3) construction of new waste water treatment system to serve the dwelling, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1501

• 31 Oct 2008Refused

  Dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1960

• 28 Mar 2002Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwelling & retention of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/1242

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Glanmore Bog SAC 001879
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glanmore Bog 001879

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunskellig.

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Bunskellig.

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.

No address of the register names Bunskellig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Bunskellig · Bun Sceilige

Area

2,075,678 m² (207.57 ha, 512.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcatherine, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Kilcatherine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcatherine electoral division: 780 people in 322 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgroom Outward, Barrees, Commons East, Glenbeg

Placenames

Bunskellig 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.