Bunavaunish
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinchalla, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Muine Mhánais
- Area
- 75.5 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 54,471 m² (5.45 ha, 13.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunavaunish, from 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 158,737 m² (15.87 ha, 39.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bunavaunish 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Bunavaunish 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bunavaunish.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunavaunish.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1894, originally two-bay single-storey[?]. Extended, post-1930, producing present composition. Extensively renovated, 2002. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof on corrugated-iron base on collared timber construction with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.
- Bunavaunish House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1819, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay three-storey rear (north) elevation. Vacant, 1901. Leased, 1911. Hipped slate roof extending into hipped slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, paired roughcast "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation having cut-limestone stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-limestone steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Round-headed window openings ("cheeks") with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers having lichen-covered truncated pyramidal capping supporting looped cast-iron double gates.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunavaunish.
- 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 Bunavaunish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunavaunish · Muine Mhánais
- Area
- 755,336 m² (75.53 ha, 186.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinchalla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Neale, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Neale electoral division: 879 people in 298 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaya, Ballyargadaun, Cahernagollum, Castletown, Lawaus
- Placenames
- Bunavaunish 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.