# Bunkey, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Bun Caoith. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 733,400 m² (73.34 ha, 181.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,734 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Stradbally, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/stradbally.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Castleconnell, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31365 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120533 - Centre: latitude 52.694742, longitude -8.469171 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunkey, from 38 m² to 181,475 m² (18.15 ha, 44.84 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1653768: 181,475 m² (18.15 ha, 44.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653768.md - Parcel 6056672: 166,568 m² (16.66 ha, 41.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056672.md - Parcel 1619532: 118,897 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619532.md - Parcel 1624910: 70,674 m² (7.07 ha, 17.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624910.md - Parcel 1607583: 67,288 m² (6.73 ha, 16.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607583.md - Parcel 1658451: 37,777 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658451.md - Parcel 1594820: 18,730 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594820.md - Parcel 496546: 12,767 m² (1.28 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/496546.md - Parcel 1615896: 8,927 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615896.md - Parcel 3576441: 7,246 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576441.md - Parcel 1598607: 6,809 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598607.md - Parcel 1602523: 4,800 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602523.md - Parcel 3576500: 4,713 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576500.md - Parcel 1599374: 4,266 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599374.md - Parcel 1641063: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641063.md - Parcel 3267439: 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267439.md - Parcel 4929749: 2,734 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4929749.md - Parcel 4420543: 2,461 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420543.md - Parcel 1674325: 2,389 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674325.md - Parcel 3267438: 2,327 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267438.md - Parcel 6014846: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6014846.md - Parcel 1590442: 2,250 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590442.md - Parcel 1667115: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667115.md - Parcel 1670546: 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670546.md - Parcel 1651053: 2,029 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651053.md - Parcel 1664641: 1,998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664641.md - Parcel 1608007: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608007.md - Parcel 1601998: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601998.md - Parcel 4627401: 616 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627401.md - Parcel 1616287: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616287.md - Parcel 1667992: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667992.md - Parcel 4627442: 83 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627442.md - Parcel 1605192: 38 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605192.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 27 Jun 2025, Limerick County Council 2560625: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560625/0 - 13 Mar 2025, Limerick County Council 2576: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2576/0 - 16 Feb 2024, Limerick County Council 2445: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2445/0 - 10 May 2022, Limerick County Council 22514: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22514/0 - 21 Jul 2017, Limerick County Council 17700: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. metal gates into landholding. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17700/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunkey. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunkey. ## 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 Bunkey, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1123, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1123.zip (ZIP). - 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/limerick/bunkey.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bunkey.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bunkey.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bunkey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymackeogh (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballymackeogh.md - Drominboy Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drominboy-lower.md - Gardenhill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gardenhill.md - Knockanbaun: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockanbaun.md - Waterpark: https://everytownland.com/limerick/waterpark.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/limerick/bunkey - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/bunkey