Bunnagappagh
Bunnagappagh is a townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Bun na gCeapach.
- Area
- 249.6 ha
- 617 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 12,021 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnagappagh, from 621 m² to 905,832 m² (90.58 ha, 223.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Aug 2026N/a
revise house design already granted under planning application 25/60361. The application will also include the installation of an effluent treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, a domestic garage and all associated site works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660414
20 Apr 2026Conditional
the demolition of one of the existing garden sheds to the rear of the dwelling and construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and elevational changes to the other existing shed to the rear of the dwelling and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660203
31 Mar 2026N/a
the demolition of one of the existing garden sheds to the rear of the dwelling and construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and elevational changes to the other existing shed to the rear of the dwelling and all associated site works and services
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660167
13 Mar 2026N/a
the demolition of one of the existing garden sheds to the rear of the dwelling and construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and elevational changes to the other existing shed to the rear of the dwelling and all associated site works and services
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660130
13 Aug 2025Conditional
Construction of a 3 bedroom dwelling. The application will also include the installation of an effluent treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, a domestic garage and all associated site works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560361
15 Jul 2025N/a
Construction of a 3 bedroom dwelling. The application will also include the installation of an effluent treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, a domestic garage and all associated site works and drainage.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560309
14 Apr 2025Conditional
front & rear extension to existing dwelling with elevation alterations all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560123
4 May 2021Conditional
EXISTING 24M HIGH MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND FENCING
Retention · Offaly County Council, 21268
4 May 2018Conditional
AMENDMENTS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO 17/264, PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CONSIST OF CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN, CHANGE OF POSITION AND ORIENTATION OF HOUSE AND GARAGE / STORE, ALTERATIONS TO SITE BOUNDARY POSITIONS AND REVISED ENTRANCE LOCATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18199
21 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUNGALOW, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17264
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 Bunnagappagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunnagappagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnagappagh.
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 Bunnagappagh, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnagappagh.
- 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 Bunnagappagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnagappagh · Bun na gCeapach
- Area
- 2,495,975 m² (249.6 ha, 616.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Geashill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Philipstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Raheenakeeran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 428 people lived in 159 households in the Raheenakeeran electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Clonavoe, Clonshannon, Coolagary, Walshisland
- Placenames
- Bunnagappagh 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.