# Bunacloy, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish Bun an Chlaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 160,689 m² (16.07 ha, 39.71 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,934 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killashee, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/killashee.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Killashee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 487 people lived in 185 households in the Killashee electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33247 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130170 - Centre: latitude 53.697618, longitude -7.914306 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunacloy, from 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) to 133,956 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 67015: 133,956 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67015.md - Parcel 75924: 24,934 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75924.md - Parcel 60288: 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60288.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bunacloy 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) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Jul 2021, Longford County Council 21225: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of a ten year permission for a solar farm on a site of approximately 34.54 hectares consisting of the following; 184,500 m2 of solar photo-voltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; Ring main unit (RMU) substation and associated hard standing; 12 no. inverter/transformer stations on 6 no. hardstandings; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fence; CCTV cameras; upgraded internal access tracks; new internal access tracks, internal bridge crossing and associated drainage infrastructure; and temporary construction compounds and all associated site services and works. The proposed development seeks to form an extension to the adjoining previously permitted "Middleton House" Solar Farm which was permitted under Longford County Council Reg. Ref 18135. Access to the proposed development is provided via the permitted "Middleton House" Solar Farm via the L-11261 local road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21225/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bunacloy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF013-058: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF013-058----. On partially reclaimed low-lying pasture, to the S of a stream. The name 'Ardneeve' is a corruption of the Irish 'Ard Naomh' or 'Chief Saint', a title usually reserved for St Patrick (ITA Survey 1944). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that the well consisted of a deep, steep-sided, water-filled hollow. It has since been filled in and there are pieces of concrete and boulders in its vicinity. Known locally as a holy well. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunacloy. ## 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 Bunacloy, about 1 in 5 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunacloy. - 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/longford/bunacloy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/bunacloy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/bunacloy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bunacloy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynakill: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballynakill.md - Cloonbrock: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonbrock.md - Killeeny: https://everytownland.com/longford/killeeny.md - Middleton: https://everytownland.com/longford/middleton.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/longford/bunacloy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/bunacloy