Buncraggy

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncraggy, from 1,611 m² to 859,892 m² (85.99 ha, 212.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• O2Cluster (General)
  Buncraggy Cluster, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Cluster (General)
  Barntick Cluster, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 24 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage, complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460019

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  to RETAIN domestic shed and a log cabin gym and sauna within the curtilage of existing home

  Retention · Clare County Council, 18813

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 Buncraggy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buncraggy.

Architectural heritage

• Buncraggy House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch, single-bay full-height canted bay windows and four-bay two-storey lower return to rear. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Red brick walls to right hand side bay window. Timber sliding sash windows. Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding with segmental-headed door opening having cut-stone surround and keystone. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with tripartite window openings, now derelict. Cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings.

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 Buncraggy, 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_505 (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.

No address of the register names Buncraggy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Buncraggy · Bun Craige

Area

1,735,721 m² (173.57 ha, 428.91 acres)

Civil parish

Clareabbey, and its townlands

Barony

Islands

Electoral division

Clareabbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,541 people lived in 1,334 households in the Clareabbey electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyveskil, Barntick, Feagh, Islandavanna Upper (Intake), Islandmagrath, Lissan West

Placenames

Buncraggy 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.