Bunkey
Bunkey is a townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Bun Caoith.
Parcel 1670546
- Area
- 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 161 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Bunkey
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1123 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 73.3 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,734 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunkey, from 38 m² to 181,475 m² (18.15 ha, 44.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Bunkey 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
27 Jun 2025Conditional
the renovation and extension of a derelict dwelling consisting of the removal of an existing rear extension and the construction of a new extension to the rear and to the front of the existing dwelling with elevational changes to the existing dwelling, improvements to site entrance and boundary treatment with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560625
13 Mar 2025Refused
infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purpose. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2576
16 Feb 2024Refused
infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2445
10 May 2022Conditional
the renovation of and extension to the existing dwelling, alterations to existing facades, the construction of a granny flat extension, the demolition of outbuildings, the widening of existing vehicular entrances, the upgrade of the wastewater treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22514
21 Jul 2017Conditional
metal gates into landholding
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17700
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunkey.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunkey.
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 Bunkey, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1123 (ZIP).
- 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 Bunkey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Bunkey · Bun Caoith
- Area
- 733,400 m² (73.34 ha, 181.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Castleconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymackeogh (Co. Tipperary), Drominboy Lower, Gardenhill, Knockanbaun, Waterpark
- Placenames
- Bunkey 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.