Bunnahowen

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnahowen, from 133 m² to 300,768 m² (30.08 ha, 74.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Bunnahowen 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.

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  Construction of a single storey side extension and two storey rear extension to existing dwelling house, upgrade the existing onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works on revised site boundaries.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460744

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  retention of the following: (1) Existing ground floor sunroom located on the south elevation, (2) Existing first floor, (3) Existing shed located to the northwest of the site, together with all associated site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460644

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460494

• 1 Apr 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22254

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  REMOVAL OF ROADSIDE PREFABRICATED ACCOMMODATION, DEMOLITION OF REAR STANDALONE SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING CONSISTING OF A NEW ADMINISTRATION FACILITY TO THE FRONT AND A SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION FACILITY TO THE REAR, ALTERATIONS AND ENERGY UPGRADE WORKS TO EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING, REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND 600 SQM POLISHING FILTER AND CAR PARKING, BUS DROP-OFF, BOUNDARIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21960

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT INCLUDING A TERTIARY/PERCOLATION AREA AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PERMISSION

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21858

• 23 Jan 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT A 347SQM AGRICULTURAL STORAGE UNIT TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2021

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnahowen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bunnahowen, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnahowen.

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 Bunnahowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bunnahowen · Bun na hAbhna

Area

2,000,781 m² (200.08 ha, 494.4 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

Alt, Carrowkeel, Derrycorrib, Loughnahelly, Srah

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bunnahowen 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.