# Bunavan, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ahascragh, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish Banbhán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 620,688 m² (62.07 ha, 153.38 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,841 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ahascragh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ahascragh.md
- Barony: Kilconnell
- Electoral division: Clonbrock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20383
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60688
- Centre: latitude 53.430874, longitude -8.362682 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunavan, from 42 m² to 170,272 m² (17.03 ha, 42.08 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1935715: 170,272 m² (17.03 ha, 42.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935715.md
- Parcel 2016781: 61,689 m² (6.17 ha, 15.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016781.md
- Parcel 1935718: 38,539 m² (3.85 ha, 9.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935718.md
- Parcel 1935714: 35,468 m² (3.55 ha, 8.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935714.md
- Parcel 1935721: 31,861 m² (3.19 ha, 7.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935721.md
- Parcel 2016775: 31,491 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016775.md
- Parcel 2016783: 26,319 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016783.md
- Parcel 2016779: 21,386 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016779.md
- Parcel 1935713: 20,680 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935713.md
- Parcel 1935716: 17,702 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935716.md
- Parcel 2016782: 16,341 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016782.md
- Parcel 1935712: 15,099 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935712.md
- Parcel 2016785: 14,787 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016785.md
- Parcel 1935719: 13,704 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935719.md
- Parcel 2016784: 12,774 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016784.md
- Parcel 2016773: 12,447 m² (1.24 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016773.md
- Parcel 1935720: 11,867 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935720.md
- Parcel 2016772: 11,863 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016772.md
- Parcel 2016778: 10,841 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016778.md
- Parcel 2016786: 9,432 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016786.md
- Parcel 2016777: 9,128 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016777.md
- Parcel 5124599: 3,489 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5124599.md
- Parcel 5124600: 3,111 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5124600.md
- Parcel 2016776: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016776.md
- Parcel 4687504: 2,759 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687504.md
- Parcel 4962964: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4962964.md
- Parcel 5502517: 2,343 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5502517.md
- Parcel 2016780: 2,207 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016780.md
- Parcel 2016774: 1,852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016774.md
- Parcel 5268764: 1,532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5268764.md
- Parcel 1935717: 1,388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935717.md
- Parcel 1935722: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935722.md
- Parcel 4687538: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687538.md
- Parcel 2016787: 597 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016787.md
- Parcel 1935723: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935723.md
- Parcel 2016770: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016770.md
- Parcel 2016771: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016771.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Bunavan 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.

- 15 May 2025, Galway County Council 2560597: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213 sqm(H), 35 sqm(G). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560597/0
- 25 Jul 2019, Galway County Council 191140: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of revised site boundaries including dwelling house from those previously approved under Pl. Ref: 03/5626 & 11/1541, to include all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 94.50 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191140/0
- 14 Mar 2019, Galway County Council 19363: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 174 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19363/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA061-016: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA061-016----. In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 31m, E-W 28m) defined by a low bank at NE and SW, and elsewhere by a scarp. A shallow external fosse survives from N through E to S. The interior has been quarried out at NE. An earthwork (GA061-018----) lies c. 100m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA061-017: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA061-017----. On a low hillock in grassland adjacent to a small pond. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 32m, E-W 28m) defined by a degraded bank from E through S to NW; elsewhere a much-quarried scarp forms the enclosing element. The interior has also been extensively quarried. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA061-018: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA061-018----. Some 100m NW of a ringfort (GA061-016----). A poorly preserved oval-shaped flat-topped earthen mound (E-W 7.6m, N-S 5m, H 1m) which has been quarried into at S. It is covered with hazel and thorn bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Bunavan, about 1 in 20 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 low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunavan.
- 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/galway/bunavan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunavan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunavan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bunavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyboggan: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyboggan-60267.md
- Creggaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaun-61579.md
- Creggaun (Dillon): https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaun-dillon.md
- Keave: https://everytownland.com/galway/keave.md
- Keeloges: https://everytownland.com/galway/keeloges-62535.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.

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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/galway/bunavan
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