Bunavory

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunavory, from 95 m² to 187,072 m² (18.71 ha, 46.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  to modify existing entrance to include new agricultural gate entrance alongside relocated vehicular entrance along with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 26147

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  for a variation of house designs, house nos. 6 to 36 inclusive, previously granted under Planning Ref: P19/765

  Permission, 30 homes · Clare County Council, 221058

• 4 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct 37 dwelling houses consisting of 3 two bedroom single storey semi detached/terraced houses, 6 three bedroom single storey detached houses, 6 four bedroom two storey semi detached houses and 22 four bedroom two storey detached houses including all associated roads, services, foul water pumping station, landscaping and road improvement works along front of site including new footpaths and re aligned junction with the R462

  Permission, 36 homes · Clare County Council, 19765

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  to (a) RETAIN as constructed modifications to existing dwelling house and associated site works, (b) RETAIN existing detached garden building incorporating home studio and associated site works, (c) PERMISSION is sought to extend, alter and refurbish existing dwelling house, including all associated site works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 181017

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling and for permission to construct new dwellinghouse, entrances, foul sewer treatment system and percolation area, plus all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17229

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bunavory.

Recorded monuments

• CL035-018 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In improved and recently de-scrubbed pasture, overlooking a short sharp slope to SSW. The monument is depicted and named on all OS historic mapping as ‘Bunavory Castle (in ruins)’. Salter (2004, 56) and Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) indicate that it was the seat of the MacClancy’s who were brehons to the O’Briens of Thomond. It was held by Donough MacClancy in 1574 and by Sir Roland Delahoyde in 1641 who was married to a daughter of MacClancy of Inch Castle (Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997, 1-2). Bunavory was forfeited in the Cromwellian settlement and granted to Philip Bigoe (ibid., 2). The monument consists of a small rectangular structure (9.5m WNW-ESE; 7m NNE-SSW) defined by the poorly preserved remains of low, rubble limestone walls which are sod covered for the most part. The lower portions are degraded by cattle in places resulting in some loose tumble along the base of the walls. Very few facing-stones survive and the rubble core is exposed for the most part. The WNW wall (L 7m; min. H 1.2m (in centre); max. H 1.8m (at SSW end); T 0.7m) is the best preserved of all the four walls, having a squared facing-stone in the centre and other smaller squared facing-stones immediately adjacent. Most of the facing-stones are missing from the NNE wall (L 9.5m; min. H 0.75m; max. H 1.8m; T 1.0m), except at the base, where there are some long, squared blocks having mortar and possibly fragments of render on the exterior. It is degraded by cattle along the base. The ESE wall (L 7m; min. H 0.4m at SSW end; max. H 1.1m at NNE end) is covered in loose embanked material which is pushed up against it. The thickness of this wall is unclear due to collapse of rubble inwards. The NE basal quoinstone is missing and fresh soil is exposed. The remains of a base-batter are evident at the foot of this wall, at the NNE end. The SSW wall (L 9.5m; min. H 0.85m; max. H 1.8m; T 0.9m) is best preserved at the WNW end. A small gap (Wth c. 0.8m) at the NW end of the NNE wall allows access into the interior, which appears to be a single room. The interior floor level is much higher and more uneven than the external ground level suggesting that it has a backfill of earth-covered rubble. The interior is almost choked with vegetation consisting of numerous young thorns, a mature thorn and an ash tree. According to local information, stone from the castle was removed to build local roads and potentially Bunavory House and outbuildings c. 270m to NE. The following items have been uploaded: CL035-018----_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. CL035-018----_01.jpg From WNW. General view of monument (if zoom in on this shot can see church on Tulla Hill). CL035-018----_02.jpg From SSW. Elevation of SSW wall at WNW end. CL035-018----_03.jpg From WNW. Close view of squared facing stone in centre of WNW elevation. CL035-018----_04.jpg From WNW. General view of WNW elevation. CL035-018----_05.jpg From SSW. General view of SSW elevation. CL035-018----_06.jpg From NNE. Cross sectional view of intact portion of base batter at NNE end of ESE elevation. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 January 2019

• CL035-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Within a modern, level farmyard, abutting a vernacular farmyard to N. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W) defined by a single bank. Not visible at ground level. The ground has been built up across this location to make a level farmyard surface. Modern sheds and structures are built at this location upon the ‘made ground’ where the ground level has been raised along the SE and NE sides of the farmyard to compensate for hillslope. As the whole area beneath the modern farmyard is artificially raised, it is likely that the levelled monument still exists below this, albeit heavily compacted. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 July 2018

• CL035-021 Enclosure
  Description

  In generally level, improved pasture, with rock outcrop close to the surface. Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 58m) on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as an oval enclosure (c. 55m NW-SE; c. 37m NE-SW) on the 25-inch and 1921 editions where it is truncated by a townland boundary across the SE sector. During archaeological assessment nearby Rooney (2007, 19-20) noted that ‘The site today is represented by a low bank located in the corner of the field. The bank may represent the W side of the monument marked on the 3rd edition map however no other trace of the monument survives’. Rooney (ibid.) continues, ‘The grassed over bank measures c. 34m in length, 4.7m in width and c. 0.76m high….and appears to curve to the NNW. The field in which the monument is located appears to have been reclaimed and it is most likely that the enclosure was almost completely levelled in the process.’ On inspection in 2017 the monument was not visible at ground level. The enclosure site is bisected by a field boundary (long-axis NW-SE). A townland boundary (long-axis ENE-WSW) truncates the SE sector of the area as per historic mapping. No trace of the monument is evident on either side of it. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 November 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bunavory, about 1 in 5 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 Bunavory.

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.

• Bunavory, Tulla5 sales

Name

Bunavory · Bun an Bhóirígh

Area

645,130 m² (64.51 ha, 159.42 acres)

Civil parish

Tulla, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Tulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,138 people lived in 437 households in the Tulla electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonaleary, Cragg, Doonaun, Knockdrumleague, Poulaforia, Rine, Tulla

Placenames

Bunavory 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.