Bunkey

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunkey, from 38 m² to 181,475 m² (18.15 ha, 44.84 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 Bunkey 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  the renovation and extension of a derelict dwelling consisting of the removal of an existing rear extension and the construction of a new extension to the rear and to the front of the existing dwelling with elevational changes to the existing dwelling, improvements to site entrance and boundary treatment with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560625

• 13 Mar 2025Refused

  infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purpose. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2576

• 16 Feb 2024Refused

  infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2445

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  the renovation of and extension to the existing dwelling, alterations to existing facades, the construction of a granny flat extension, the demolition of outbuildings, the widening of existing vehicular entrances, the upgrade of the wastewater treatment unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22514

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  metal gates into landholding

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17700

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunkey.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1123 (ZIP).

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 Bunkey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Bunkey · Bun Caoith

Area

733,400 m² (73.34 ha, 181.23 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Castleconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconnell electoral division: 3,607 people in 1,298 households; 75% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymackeogh (Co. Tipperary), Drominboy Lower, Gardenhill, Knockanbaun, Waterpark

Placenames

Bunkey 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.