Bulcaun

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bulcaun, from 310 m² to 89,729 m² (8.97 ha, 22.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Bulcaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bulcaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Bulcaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA063-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise with good views, c. 100m of N of the townland boundary in the S half of the townland. A slightly raised circular area (29.4m NNW–SSE; 27.4m ENE-WSW) defined by remnants of a stony bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.55m at SSE, 1.4m at N). The bank is evident as an earthen scrap with a low internal rise, topped with a sod-covered stony lip (Wth 1.4m; H 0.2m). The scarp is low at SE–S. There is a low area or break (Wth c. 2m) at NW. In the level interior, faint linear features, on roughly N–S axis, may be relict cultivation ridges. According to local information, the interior was used as a children’s burial ground (MA062-022001-). A remnant of a field fence skirts the rath at SSE–SW, merging with the external face of the bank at WNW–W, but has been removed where it continued beyond the rath to NW. Heaps of field clearance stones lie adjacent to the rath at SE. There are hawthorn and blackthorn bushes on the perimeter at SE–W, which are encroaching on the interior. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-022001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a rath (MA063-022). According to local information, the interior of the rath was used as a children’s burial ground, with the last two burials taking place in the early 20th century. There are no graves visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_824 (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 Bulcaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bulcaun · Bolcán

Area

707,566 m² (70.76 ha, 174.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilbeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbeagh electoral division: 1,068 people in 435 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass East, Bracklagh, Cloonmeen West, Lavy Beg, Lavy More, Puntabeg

Placenames

Bulcaun 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.