Bunalty
Bunalty is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Bun Alltaí.
- Area
- 387.3 ha
- 957 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 37,086 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- service did not answer
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunalty, from 401 m² to 454,024 m² (45.4 ha, 112.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500
Recorded monuments
- MA012-003 Crannog
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.
- MA012-005 Crannog
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.
- MA012-012 Crannog
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
- Saint Paul's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1936; extant 1943, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (north) front. "Improved", 1999[?], producing present composition. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, "Cavetto" or stepped coping to gables on roll moulded gabled "Cavetto" corbel kneelers including "Cavetto" or stepped coping to gable to entrance (north) front on roll moulded gabled "Cavetto" corbel kneelers with rendered buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered stepped buttresses including rendered clasping stepped buttresses to corners having "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with concrete chamfered sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (south) with concrete chamfered sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to entrance (north) front with concrete chamfered sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (north), encaustic tiled central aisle between timber pews, paired Classical-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), encaustic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (south) with arcaded communion railings centred on cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (ob. 1932), and exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame. Set in relandscaped grounds.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bunalty, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bunalty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunalty · Bun Alltaí
- Area
- 3,873,206 m² (387.32 ha, 957.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Barroosky, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 99 people lived in 44 households in the Barroosky electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baralty, Bellagelly North, Gortleatilla, Lenarevagh, Pollboy, Srahnaplaia
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Bunalty 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.