Bunlicky
Townland in the civil parish of Mungret, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Bun Leice
- Area
- 68.2 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 91
- registered freehold, median 3,570 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- Industrial
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunlicky, from 27 m² to 59,020 m² (5.9 ha, 14.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C2.1Industrial (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Semi Natural Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
the amendment of Condition No.3 of ABP Ref. No.: PL92.248285 (LCCC Ref. No. 16/345), which states: “3. The total of Solid Recovered Fuel (sourced from Municipal Solid Waste) to be combusted at the cement works shall not exceed 30,000 tonnes per annum. Reason: In order to comply with the policies of the Southern Region Waste Management Plan 2015-2021, which policies are considered to be reasonable.” To read as follows: “3. The total of Solid Recovered Fuel (sourced from Municipal Solid Waste) to be combusted at the cement works shall not exceed 60,000 tonnes per annum, within the existing overall permitted capacity of 90,000 tonnes per annum for all alternative fuels and alternative raw materials. Reason: In order to comply with the policies of the National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy 2024-2030”. No works or other interventions involving alterations to the physical aspects of the site are proposed as part of the application. The site operates under Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence No. P0029-06
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660932
23 Jan 2026N/a
the construction of 5 standalone warehouse blocks with 1 block subdivided into 2 warehouses, 3 blocks subdivided into 3 warehouses and 1 standalone warehouse, ESB Substation, new entrance to existing access roadway, internal roadway network and car parking, Foul and Storm water networks, connection to necessary services and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660050
30 Oct 2020Conditional
construction on SITE 1 of 96no. residential units: 2no. 4 bedroom detached units, 20no. 4 bedroom semi-detached units, 8no. 3 bedroom semi-detached units, 32no. 3 bedroom terraced units, 13no. 2 bedroom terraced units, 17no. 2 bedroom duplex units, 4no. 1 bedroom duplex units. Provision of Creche and Community Building including external play area(Gross Floor Area - 787 sq.m, Creche 610 sq.m & Community Building 177 sq.m). Provision of shared communal and private open space, car parking, bicycle storage, bin storage, vehicular and pedestrian access, public lighting, site landscaping, services, signage, ESB substation and all associated site development works. Development to include access onto the Mungret Road(R859). The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission, 75 homes · Limerick County Council, 201114
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435
Recorded monuments
- LI005-075 Enclosure
Description
In level, poorly drained pasture, at the edge of the Dock Road M18 interchange in Limerick city. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as a semi-circular shaped cropmark visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP). Visible as a semi-circular-shaped cropmark today on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. The aerial photographic evidence suggests the remains of a possible levelled enclosure. Could be related to post-1700 land reclamation works. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunlicky.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Bunlicky.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_929 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bunlicky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Bunlicky · Bun Leice
- Area
- 681,944 m² (68.19 ha, 168.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mungret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Ballycummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballycummin electoral division: 19,394 people in 6,719 households; 66% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeffe, Castlemungret, Conigar, Skehacreggaun
- Placenames
- Bunlicky 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.