Bunnahowna
Bunnahowna is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Bun na hAbhna.
- Area
- 359.9 ha
- 889 acres
- Land parcels
- 173
- registered freehold, median 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
173 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnahowna, from 27 m² to 1,569,593 m² (156.96 ha, 387.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bunnahowna 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
22 Jul 2025Conditional
retaention of change of use from a holiday home to full domestic occupation for an existing development previously granted permission under P92/997 and all associated ancillary works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25297
27 May 2025N/a
retention of change of use from a holiday home to full domestic occupation for an existing development previously granted permission under P92/997 and all associated ancillary works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25206
14 Feb 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: change of use from commercial holiday home with partial occupancy to full time residential use
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2548
4 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission for the renovation and extension of existing dwelling house, the conversion of an existing shed into a granny flat, refurbishment works to existing agricultural building for storage of outdoor equipment and upgrade to septic tank and percolation area including all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460415
3 Mar 2023Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23112
7 Oct 2022Conditional
RETENTION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH SITE WORKS AND REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22871
25 May 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22401
6 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION AND MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING COTTAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1867
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
15 Feb 2017Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING AN UPGRADE TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1779
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: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SAC 000534
- Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnahowna.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge over river, built 1893-4; opened 1894; extant 1898. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Bunnahowna River with unkempt banks to river.
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 Bunnahowna, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnahowna.
- 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 Bunnahowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnahowna · Bun na hAbhna
- Area
- 3,599,297 m² (359.93 ha, 889.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Newport West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clagganmountain, Glennamaddoo, Murrevagh, Rosturk
- Placenames
- Bunnahowna 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.