# Bunnakill, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Bun an Choill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,201,785 m² (220.18 ha, 544.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,270 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Letterfore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 283 people lived in 108 households in the Letterfore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20767 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60697 - Centre: latitude 53.446825, longitude -9.486582 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnakill, from 162 m² to 1,260,611 m² (126.06 ha, 311.5 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1939359: 1,260,611 m² (126.06 ha, 311.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939359.md - Parcel 1939361: 581,789 m² (58.18 ha, 143.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939361.md - Parcel 1939362: 206,144 m² (20.61 ha, 50.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939362.md - Parcel 2012863: 64,461 m² (6.45 ha, 15.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012863.md - Parcel 2012862: 37,404 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012862.md - Parcel 1939357: 14,023 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939357.md - Parcel 2012860: 10,858 m² (1.09 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012860.md - Parcel 2012858: 7,270 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012858.md - Parcel 2012859: 6,033 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012859.md - Parcel 1939358: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939358.md - Parcel 4901391: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901391.md - Parcel 2012861: 1,694 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2012861.md - Parcel 5567425: 1,099 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5567425.md - Parcel 5627451: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5627451.md - Parcel 5567424: 162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5567424.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bunnakill 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360503: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360503/0 - 26 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2360051: Refused. Permission. for the erection of 6 no. wind turbines with an overall ground to blade tip height of 185m with a rotor diameter of 162m and a hub height of 104m. The development will also consist of the construction of crane hardstand areas and turbine foundations, improvement of existing site entrance with access onto the N59, construction of one no. temporary construction compound with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing, installation of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of 104m overall height, construction of new internal site access tracks and upgrade of existing site track, to include all associated drainage including new clear span bridge crossing of the Owenwee River, development of a site drainage network, construction of one no. permanent 38kV substation, all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines to the wind farm substation and biodiversity enhancement measures and peat storage and restoration areas.Gross floor space of proposed works 93.48sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360051/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnakill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnakill. ## 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 Bunnakill, 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 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 Bunnakill. - 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/bunnakill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunnakill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunnakill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bunnakill 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) - Ardderrynagleragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardderrynagleragh.md - Derreennagusfoor: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreennagusfoor.md - Leam West: https://everytownland.com/galway/leam-west.md - Letterfore: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterfore.md - Tawnaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/tawnaghbeg-63981.md - Tullaghaboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullaghaboy.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/galway/bunnakill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/bunnakill