Bunagarraun

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunagarraun, from 922 m² to 271,127 m² (27.11 ha, 67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Bunagarraun 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.

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  for a single storey extension, a porch and minor façade amendments to the existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 53.7 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 7.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21570

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  to carry out the following. 1, Retain the existing dwelling house and entrance gates (previous planning permission reference number (7948). 2, Demolish the existing domestic garage/fuel store and the existing shed. 3. Upgrade the existing sewage treatment facilities and install a new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area. 4, Demolish the existing extension to the dwelling house. 5, Construction an extension to the existing dwelling house, carry out interior alterations and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 112 sqm (Extension). Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 139 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 91 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191810

• 6 Sept 2018Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 180sqm, (garage) 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181265

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  for a forest access road and entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171476

• 18 May 2017N/a

  for a forest access road and entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17695

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bunagarraun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunagarraun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunagarraun.

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 Bunagarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Bunagarraun · Muine an Ghearráin

Area

966,101 m² (96.61 ha, 238.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbennan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Foxhall electoral division: 675 people in 239 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Blindwell, Castlegrove West, Lissananny, Park

Placenames

Bunagarraun 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.