Bunrower

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunrower, from 27 m² to 397,286 m² (39.73 ha, 98.17 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Mixed/general 'green' /recreation/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Bunrower 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bunrower.

Architectural heritage

• Reen Cottage, gate lodge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey Tudor Revival style gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 1839, possibly originally thatched and incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1814. Comprising single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to centre having ogee-headed opening, single-storey canted bay window to right, single-storey box bay window to west elevation and single-bay single-storey return to rear to south. Pitched slate roof with gable copings having corbelled springers, paired octagonal rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron hopper and downpipe and gabled half-dormer. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth, and render date plaque to porch. Timber mullion-and-transom frames with iron framed lattice glazing, limestone sills and render hood mouldings. Bay windows with pitched roofs, lead ridge rolls and timber cornice. Porch has diagonally-laid quarry tiles and ribbed vaulting with plaster ribs. Four-centred arched entrance door with timber panelled double-leaf door and bell-pull to architrave. Gateway adjacent to lodge has two-limestone ashlar piers which are widely spaced and probably originally part of a more elaborate gateway.

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 Bunrower, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_186 (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 Bunrower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Bunrower

Area

833,378 m² (83.34 ha, 205.93 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Killarney Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,735 people lived in 2,446 households in the Killarney Rural electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernane, Demesne, Reen, Ross Island, Scrahane

Placenames

Bunrower 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.