Bunavaunish

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunavaunish, from 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 158,737 m² (15.87 ha, 39.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Bunavaunish 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bunavaunish 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 the townland of Bunavaunish.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunavaunish.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1894, originally two-bay single-storey[?]. Extended, post-1930, producing present composition. Extensively renovated, 2002. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof on corrugated-iron base on collared timber construction with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.

• Bunavaunish House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1819, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay three-storey rear (north) elevation. Vacant, 1901. Leased, 1911. Hipped slate roof extending into hipped slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, paired roughcast "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation having cut-limestone stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-limestone steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Round-headed window openings ("cheeks") with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers having lichen-covered truncated pyramidal capping supporting looped cast-iron double gates.

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 Bunavaunish, 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 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 Bunavaunish.

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 Bunavaunish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bunavaunish · Muine Mhánais

Area

755,336 m² (75.53 ha, 186.65 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaya, Ballyargadaun, Cahernagollum, Castletown, Lawaus

Placenames

Bunavaunish 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.