Bunbeg

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunbeg, from 46 m² to 96,041 m² (9.6 ha, 23.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Bunbeg 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.

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC MAINS SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462147

• 13 Dec 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAINS SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462068

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING OF CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE REPLACEMENT EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350451

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSERVATORY BUILT TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151756

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  2 NO. CONTAINERS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950081

• 12 Dec 2018N/a

  2 NO. CONTAINERS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851889

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: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunbeg.

Architectural heritage

• Bunbeg Coastguard Station, officer's house, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former coastguard officers' house, built c.1893, with single-storey porch to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched replacement slate roof, with overhanging eaves on exposed rafters, and with smooth-rendered chimneystacks to gables with cornice copings and clay pots. Roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth-rendered quoins; lined-and-ruled smooth rendered walls to porch. Camber-arch window openings with concrete sills, smooth-rendered quoined surrounds and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Round-headed doorway with smooth-rendered quoined surround and timber battened door with fanlight and stone steps. Detached three-bay two-storey former stables to rear, now derelict, forming courtyard, with pitched corrugated-asbestos roof and smooth-rendered chimneystack with cornice, rusticated coursed rubble stone walls with smooth rendered raised quoins, square-headed openings with smooth-rendered surrounds, and having timber lintel to integral carriage arch. Rusticated rubble stone boundary wall to north and south, having rounded copings. Set parallel to roads with rusticated rubble stone boundary wall to front.

• Quay/wharf, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quay, built c.1850, on north bank of An Chláidigh [Clady River]. Pink granite and limestone coursed rubble walls with concrete parapet and deck, having granite and concrete steps leading to water. Cast-iron bollards and mooring posts to deck. Located south of An Bun Beag [Bunbeg].

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 20 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1259 (ZIP).

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 Bunbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bunbeg · An Bun Beag

Area

278,776 m² (27.88 ha, 68.89 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Magheraclogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockastoller, Magheraclogher

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bunbeg 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.