Bunowen More

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunowen More, from 21 m² to 339,973 m² (34 ha, 84.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Bunowen More 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 Dec 2022Conditional

  for a change of house design, previously granted under PL Ref No. 2260117. Gross floor space of proposed works in sq 97.50

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261234

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing stone shed (2) proposed external elevation changes and internal alterations to existing dwelling house (3) proposed extension to the side/rear elevations of the existing cottage (4) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works .Gross floor space of proposed works 70 sqm and works to be retained 76.40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260117

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: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

• GA049-013 Country house
  Description

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• GA049-014 Church
  Description

  At E end of Doon Hill close to beach. Site of a medieval parish church. When visited by OS in 1838 only 'a fragment of the S sidewall... seven feet [2.13m] high and twenty feet [12.8m] long' survived (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 97, 101). No visible surface trace survives. A chapel (GA049-015001-) lies c. 170m to ESE. (Killanin 1954, 93) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA049-015 Graveyard
  Description

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• GA049-015001 Church
  Description

  To ESE of Ballindoon Church (GA049-014----). A small, poorly built 18th-C chapel (ENE-WSW; L 7.4m, Wth 5.2m ext.) of the Geoghegan family, builders of the nearby mansion. Dedicated to St Flannan. There is plain doorway in W wall and a possible blocked doorway in S, a flat-headed window in E wall, two others in N and S walls. A graveslab lies within, and a small unenclosed graveyard, indicated on 1st and 2nd (1897) eds of OS 6-inch map, lies immediately to NE; possibly a CBG. (Killanin 1954, 93) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA049-016 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On the seashore at a river mouth between the bays of Bunowen and Ballyconneely. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Donell Ecowga' O'Flaherty (Nolan 1901, 116). Fragmentary remains of a rectangular bawn survive on W bank of the river where portions of its walls stand up to 2m in height. Probable entrance on E side. A mound in SE corner marks the site of the O'Flaherty castle. Foundations of other buildings are visible in NW corner. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 25, 102; Hardiman 1846, 108-9; Blake 1902) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA049-016001 Bawn
  Description

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• GA049-016002 Building
  Description

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• GA049-017002 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated close towards the northern edge of the summit of Bunowen (Doon) Hill (65m OD), a distinctive bare oval-shaped hill at the N side of Bunowen Bay. The hilltop setting consists of unenclosed pastureland. The surrounding landscape consists of a mixture of pasture enclosed by drystone field walls, with sand dunes and a coastal plain located to the S. The signal tower has unobstructed views in all directions. Located c. 245m NW of the coastline at the nearest point (Bunowen Bay). The signal tower (GA076-006----) at Ard Castle Hill, located c. 19.9kms to the SE, has been demolished and can no longer be seen from this location. The signal tower (GA0009-007----) at Cleggan Hill, located c. 17.2kms to the N, now survives as a low ruin and can no longer be seen from this location. The site of this ruinous signal tower at Bunowen is located c. 164m W of the site of a medieval parish church (MA049-014----) and c. 242m E\ESE of a holy well (GA049-001----) at Aillebrack, which is indicated on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map (surveyed c. 1837-8) as 'Well of the Seven Daughters'. The fragmentary remains of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1806) originally two-storey square-plan signal tower (int. dims. c. 4.25m NW-SE x 4.25m NE-SW; max wall H 0.3m), built with randomly coursed rubble stone masonry. The signal tower has been largely demolished and the masonry has been removed from the site for use elsewhere. The surviving part of the tower consists of two grassed-over sections of walling forming a right angle to the NE corner of the former signal tower site, inside of which there is a shallow hollow\depression. The walls are aligned NW-SE (L 6.2m; Wth 1.4m; max H 0.3m), and NE-SW (L 6.0m; Wth c. 2.0m; max H 0.3m) respectively. Intact sections of stonework are visible on the internal edges of the walls, while the grassed over external edges simply slope gently downwards suggesting a base batter. The hollow area (max D c. 0.2m) is triangular in shape, running from the E end of the NW-SE wall to the W end of the NE-SW wall. The site of the signal tower are not surrounded by a rubble spread, indicating that this material was removed from the site and used elsewhere for the construction of buildings and\or field walls etc. The remains of a small rectangular building (GA049-017003-) are located 23m NW of the signal tower. The remains of the structure consist of a few short sections of rubble stone walling that mark one corner of a building, and the reveals of an internally splayed window opening. This structure is seemingly the remains of a ‘folly’ apparently erected by the Geoghegan (later O’Neill) family of nearby Bunowen Castle (GA049-013----), a ruinous castellated former country house, located c. 325m to the NE. This folly was probably built during the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, a period when many such structures were erected on country estates throughout Ireland. A lime kiln is indicated c. 65m to the NE of the remains of the signal tower on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map (surveyed c. 1837-8); this site was not investigated. A World War II-era lookout post (LOP 53) is located 22m W of the site of the signal tower and, unusually for its type, it is surrounded by a low rubble stone walled enclosure (possibly using masonry from the demolished\collapsed signal tower). Approximately 6m S of the lookout post is a well-defined number ‘53’ sign marked out on the hillside in rubble stone; this is all that remains visible today of the ‘Eire 53’ that also dates from the World War II period (Kennedy 2008). The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 08/07/22 Images: GA049-017002-.01 View of site looking N GA049-017002-.02 Foundation of the signal tower looking NE towards Bunowen Castle GA049-017002-.03 Plan of site GA049-017002-.04 View of ‘folly’ to the NW, view from S GA049-017002-.05 View of ‘folly’ to the NW, view from N towards lookout post GA049-017002-.06 Lookout post; view looking S GA049-017002-.07 Lookout post; view looking SE GA049-017002-.08 ‘53’ sign and lookout post; view from the SE

• GA049-017003 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Bunowen Castle, castle/fortified house, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey castle, built c.1740, comprising bawn wall and stable block. Now in ruins. Rendered chimneystacks, battlements and parapet. Rendered and rubble stone walls. Square-headed and round-headed openings.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bunowen More · Bun Abhann Mór

Area

978,950 m² (97.9 ha, 241.9 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Bunowen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bunowen electoral division: 406 people in 165 households; 86% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aillebrack, Bunowen Beg, Emlagharan

Placenames

Bunowen More 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.