Bunnaton

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnaton, from 42 m² to 197,406 m² (19.74 ha, 48.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Bunnaton 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.

• 28 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) DWELLING HOUSE, (2) STORAGE SHED, (3) WASTEWATER TREATEMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661408

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561825

• 13 Nov 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461825

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461628

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350562

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA AN EXISTING LANEWAY

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251311

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851115

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851051

• 25 May 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY UTILITY BUILDING. THE DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS40901801. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850818

• 3 May 2018Refused

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY TWO-BEDROOM CARE-TAKER'S COTTAGE, (B) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, ROADWAY & PARKING , AND BOUNDARY REPAIRS, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/51468, (C) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE PRS 40901801. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS ALSO BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850680

• 9 Mar 2018N/a

  DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS40901801, CONSISTING OF: (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY TWO-BEDROOM CARETAKER'S COTTAGE; (B) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, ROADWAY & PARKING, AND BOUNDARY REPAIRS, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/51468 AND (C) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850350

• 21 Feb 2018N/a

  DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS40901801, CONSISTING OF: (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY TWO-BEDROOM CARETAKER'S COTTAGE; (B) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, ROADWAY & PARKING, AND BOUNDARY REPAIRS, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 06/51468 AND (C) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850249

• 28 Dec 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751987

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SUNROOM AND REPLACE WITH A ONE AND A HALF-STOREY EXTENSION. MAKE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS. CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750448

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194

Recorded monuments

• DG018-019 Burial ground
  Description

  The site is described as 'Burial Ground for Strangers found drowned' on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map but the exact position is not indicated. A limited search in the general area revealed no trace of it. The area is one of extensive rock outcrop at the base of the Knockalla mountain range. The location point for this record has been positioned at the spot where the name is printed on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1900) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated. Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 3 December 2012

• DG018-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Only a short arc of a circular stone wall survives here to the N of a modern field boundary. The wall which is grass-grown is .4m in height, and from 3m to 4m wide. Remains of facing can be seen on the interior. The interior is slightly lower than the ground outside. The diameter (presuming an originally circular enclo-sure) was probably c. 15m. It is located on level grazing land overlooking Lough Swilly closeby to the E. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG018-039 Promontory fort - coastal
  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

• Knockalla Fort, martello tower, battery, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey ovoid-plan Martello tower, built c.1810, having pair of defensive walls flanking to north and west to seaward side and protected by dry moat to south (landward) side and probably incorporating fabric of mid-eighteenth-century battery. Vaulted ashlar gun mounts to roof, with conical ashlar stairs turret and remains of crenellated parapet. Stepped flanking walls with skewed rendered copings. Dressed rubble stone walls with tooled corner. Square-headed openings with musket loops to ground floor, having tooled ashlar lintels. Musket loops to east defensive wall flanking segmental-arch opening with tooled stone surround, raised stringer stone and keystone, and with steel gate inset. Red brick chimneystacks to parapet. Tower and walls enclose detached five-bay single-storey structure with flat roof, wet-dashed walls, timber windows to upper level and seven embrasures to parapet on lower level. Approached by sunken roadway having rubble stone walls and leading to south of dry moat opposite arched opening. Set overlooking An Poll Beag [The Little Hole], Poll Uí Bhaoid [Boyd's Hole] and Loch Súilí [Lough Swilly].

• Knockalla Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey former coastguard station, built c.1880, having machicolation feature to front and gable elevations with window openings, and projecting single-storey porch extensions to rear (northwest). Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves having exposed timber rafters, three rendered chimneystacks, replacement aluminium rainwater goods, and lean-to slate roofs to extensions. Painted coursed rubble stone walls with margined tooled quoins and raised stone plinth. Machicolations supported on corbelled brackets and smooth-rendered. Mainly camber-arch window openings with painted tooled stone voussoirs and sills, with some square-headed window openings. Replacement uPVC doors and windows. Blocked camber-arch doorway and recently enlarged window openings towards one end of front elevation. Single-storey rubble stone outbuildings to rear, with pitched slate roofs having render copings. Stone walls to boundary to rear with square-plan stone piers supporting wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Set on hill overlooking overlooking Trá Screagaí [Scraggy Bay] and Loch Súilí [Lough Swilly].

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 Bunnaton, 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 Bunnaton.

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 Bunnaton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bunnaton · Bun na Toinne

Area

2,425,618 m² (242.56 ha, 599.38 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Knockalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

286 people lived in 112 households in the Knockalla electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carngarrow, Lurganbrack, Magherawardan, Tirevlin

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bunnaton 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.