# Bunskellig, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Bun Sceilige. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,075,678 m² (207.57 ha, 512.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,969 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcatherine, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilcatherine.md - Barony: Bear - Electoral division: Kilcatherine, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8772 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41121 - Centre: latitude 51.723262, longitude -9.891866 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunskellig, from 39 m² to 476,125 m² (47.61 ha, 117.65 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2268732: 476,125 m² (47.61 ha, 117.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268732.md - Parcel 2221728: 236,430 m² (23.64 ha, 58.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221728.md - Parcel 2268729: 218,155 m² (21.82 ha, 53.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268729.md - Parcel 2268839: 206,844 m² (20.68 ha, 51.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268839.md - Parcel 2380307: 146,483 m² (14.65 ha, 36.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2380307.md - Parcel 2268739: 118,652 m² (11.87 ha, 29.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268739.md - Parcel 2268738: 114,470 m² (11.45 ha, 28.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268738.md - Parcel 2380308: 106,473 m² (10.65 ha, 26.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2380308.md - Parcel 2268733: 86,494 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268733.md - Parcel 2221639: 66,126 m² (6.61 ha, 16.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221639.md - Parcel 2268735: 56,423 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268735.md - Parcel 2268737: 56,131 m² (5.61 ha, 13.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268737.md - Parcel 2268734: 35,277 m² (3.53 ha, 8.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268734.md - Parcel 5667697: 33,550 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667697.md - Parcel 2221729: 25,536 m² (2.55 ha, 6.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221729.md - Parcel 2268736: 15,202 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268736.md - Parcel 4830897: 13,756 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830897.md - Parcel 2268745: 12,969 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268745.md - Parcel 2268743: 7,765 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268743.md - Parcel 4830868: 7,518 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830868.md - Parcel 2268741: 5,501 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268741.md - Parcel 5667670: 4,378 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667670.md - Parcel 2687462: 3,186 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687462.md - Parcel 2687465: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687465.md - Parcel 2687466: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687466.md - Parcel 2268744: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268744.md - Parcel 2268742: 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268742.md - Parcel 3125855: 1,922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3125855.md - Parcel 2221638: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221638.md - Parcel 2380305: 1,732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2380305.md - Parcel 2221640: 1,206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221640.md - Parcel 2221727: 748 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221727.md - Parcel 2268740: 429 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268740.md - Parcel 5667713: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667713.md - Parcel 4961404: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4961404.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 5 Jun 2026, Cork County Council 26/1501: Application withdrawn. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/1501 - 31 Oct 2008, Cork County Council 08/1960: Refused. Permission. Dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/1960 - 28 Mar 2002, Cork County Council 02/1242: Conditional. Permission. Construction of extension to dwelling & retention of domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/1242 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Glanmore Bog SAC, site code 001879, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001879 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glanmore Bog, site code 001879 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunskellig. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunskellig. ## 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 Bunskellig, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/cork/bunskellig.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/bunskellig.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/bunskellig.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bunskellig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardgroom Outward: https://everytownland.com/cork/ardgroom-outward.md - Barrees: https://everytownland.com/cork/barrees.md - Commons East: https://everytownland.com/cork/commons-east-41677.md - Glenbeg: https://everytownland.com/cork/glenbeg-42870.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/cork/bunskellig - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/bunskellig