Bunawillin

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunawillin, from 426 m² to 82,199 m² (8.22 ha, 20.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bunawillin 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.

• 2 Jan 2025Conditional

  retention of alterations to dwelling to include revised window and door layout, rear facing roof window, revised site levels as constructed together with revised site boundary and all associated site works. Previously granted planning permission P02/2355 relates to this property

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 252

• 25 Oct 2024N/a

  retention of alterations to dwelling to include revised window and door layout, rear facing roof window, revised site levels as constructed together with revised site boundary and all associated site works. Previously granted permission P02/2355 refers

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 24454

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  A) Retention of 48.84 sqm domestic shed. (b) Permission for construction of 76.3 sqm extension to side of existing dwelling together with associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19316

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  (I) Demolish part of existing house and construct new extension to existing house with all associated alterations and (ii)Construct garage/shed with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19289

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470

Recorded monuments

• MA025-001001 Church
  Description

  On a small headland jutting into a tidal bay. A rectangular building, on an E-W axis, annotated 'Church in ruins' is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, with another building on a NE-SW axis immediately to the W. Neither building is shown on the 1921 edition, where the location is marked 'Church (Site of)'. There is no visible trace of the church. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 November 2017

• MA025-001002 Midden
  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 Bunawillin.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bunawillin, 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.

No address of the register names Bunawillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bunawillin · Bun an Mhuilinn

Area

1,127,856 m² (112.79 ha, 278.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Glencastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

499 people lived in 194 households in the Glencastle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Loughnahelly, Muingmore, Srah

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bunawillin 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.