Bunnafollistran
Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Muine Feileastran
- Area
- 378.4 ha
- 935 acres
- Land parcels
- 140
- registered freehold, median 8,737 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
140 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnafollistran, from 32 m² to 159,063 m² (15.91 ha, 39.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Bunnafollistran 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
7 Apr 2026Conditional
retain existing house as built on revised site boundaries with extensions to the rear and an entrance onto the R334 road and all ancillary works, previously granted under P74/1550
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2674
19 Mar 2026N/a
build a 135.5 m2 dwelling house with waste water treatment system and ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2656
30 Jul 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed together with associated services at the above address.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560510
22 May 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Develop an old basketball/tennis court into a multi use games area (MUGA)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25200
19 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING FOUL WATER SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22379
1 Jul 2021Conditional
INSTALLATION OF FENCING, SOLAR PUMPS AND DRINKING TROUGHS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21707
29 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21416
5 Mar 2020Conditional
RETAIN A PARTIALLY COMPLETED CARPARK, ACCESSES, LIGHTING, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20164
5 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW FOOTPATH/WALK WAY WITH NEW 6M HIGH LIGHTING COLUMNS AROUND THE EXISITNG GROUNDS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19515
14 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE, FUEL STORE AND GARDENING TOOLS STORAGE SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 181006
22 Dec 2017Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING FOR MINOR AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER P07/2668 & P07/26680 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 171043
1 Nov 2017Conditional
RETENTION: MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING PAROCHIAL HOUSE, UNUSED, TO A BREAKFAST CLUB AND AFTER SCHOOL SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17874
12 Jun 2017Conditional
BUILD DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE FACILITIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17451
2 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A GARAGE/SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17425
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 Bunnafollistran.
Recorded monuments
- MA123-011 Ringfort - rath
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.
- MA123-012 Children's burial ground
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.
- MA123-013 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.
- MA123-014 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
- Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1873-5; dated 1875; dedicated 1876; extant 1894, originally four-bay double-height[?] with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1944, producing present composition. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles, concrete[?] coping to gables on kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with stepped buttresses to corners including tuck pointed drag edged rock faced cut-limestone clasping stepped buttresses to corners to entrance (west) front having drag edged tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-four timber sash windows having margins. Quatrefoil "Rose Window" to gable to entrance (west) front, concealed dressings with hood moulding over framing fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Pointed-arch door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window openings to "cheeks" with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings having margins. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (west) below stained glass "Rose Window", carpeted central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations, exposed scissor truss timber roof construction with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with arcaded communion railings centred on stepped "predella" supporting cut-veined Connemara marble panelled altar. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Water pump, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, ----. Now disused. Road fronted on tarmacadam verge.
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 10 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 Bunnafollistran.
- 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 Bunnafollistran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnafollistran · Muine Feileastran
- Area
- 3,783,609 m² (378.36 ha, 934.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Shrule, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shrule electoral division: 1,211 people in 419 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballisnahyny, Ballynalty, Cahernabrock, Funshinaugh, Houndswood North, Houndswood South, Mocorha
- Placenames
- Bunnafollistran 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.