Bunnagippaun
Bunnagippaun is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Bun na gCeapán.
- Area
- 135.6 ha
- 335 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,214 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnagippaun, from 204 m² to 72,345 m² (7.23 ha, 17.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bunnagippaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Mar 2017Conditional
consisting of the change of use & refurbishment of existing dwelling cottage to domestic garage, construction of a new split level dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, and all associated external works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 194 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17416
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA 002431
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnagippaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnagippaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Bunnagippaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnagippaun.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bunnagippaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnagippaun · Bun na gCeapán
- Area
- 1,356,462 m² (135.65 ha, 335.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Oughterard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Buffy, Clooshgereen, Derryvoghil, Luggakeeraun, Maghera More
- Placenames
- Bunnagippaun 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.