Buckwaria

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buckwaria, from 285 m² to 248,836 m² (24.88 ha, 61.49 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenities (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  construct an all weather sand arena, construct an all weather turnout paddock and construct a covered dung stead and water harvesting tanks together with associated site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26202

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  Planning Permission to demolish existing flat roofed extension to the side of the existing dwelling and construct a replacement pitched roof extension.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660239

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  Demolish existing sunroom, construct new 2-storey rear extension, remove existing dormer windows at first floor level and replace with new velux rooflights and carry out minor elevational alterations to existing dormer dwelling. Works to include the creation of a new entrance driveway from the Knockranny village road.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660225

• 12 Dec 2024Conditional

  Development will consist of the construction of a dwelling and ancillary storage shed, with connection to nearby public sewerage and water supply and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460759

• 16 May 2024Refused

  construction of a dwelling and ancillary storage shed, with connection to nearby public sewerage and water supply and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460298

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Buckwaria.

Recorded monuments

• MA088-035 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_243 (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 Buckwaria with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Buckwaria · Boc Bháire

Area

486,568 m² (48.66 ha, 120.23 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Westport Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Westport Urban electoral division: 6,252 people in 2,285 households; 53% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygorman, Knockranny, Sheeroe, Tonranny

Placenames

Buckwaria 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.