Bunacum

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunacum, from 26 m² to 245,221 m² (24.52 ha, 60.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 May 2026N/a

  two story extension to rear of property, including kitchen and bathroom on ground floor, bedroom and bathroom on first floor

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660435

• 8 May 2026N/a

  a single storey flat roof extension to the rear, alteration of roof profile of existing ground floor side and rear extension to a flat roof, replacement of existing pitched roof on front porch with a flat roof, widening of front vehicular access with partial removal of boundary wall

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660417

• 8 Aug 2024N/a

  (1) a wooden decking area to the front of the domestic dwelling (decking area built in 2016); (2) a clear pergola type covered area over this decking. This covered area is to allow for rain water harvesting for watering purposes of raised vegetable area built into the decking area. The newly built covered area which is incomplete is to be open on one side and front and partially closed on the second side

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460653

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  the storage sheds constructed to rear of property

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360877

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 Bunacum.

Recorded monuments

• TN022-070001 Church
  Description

  Situated in the centre of the village with Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) located 60m to the S. The poorly preserved remains of the N wall of a possible rectangular church building composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble (Wall T. 1m; L 24.8m) with a possible priest's chamber at the W end. The wall is orientated on an E-W axis. The site has been greatly altered by clean up schemes in the area. A flat-headed doorway and window embrasures have been altered so as to make it impossible to determine their original form. A double-ope stoup inserted in the E jamb of a destroyed doorway is the only architectural feature visible (Timoney 1971, 77). The stoup is decorated with a foliage design and an angel holding a shield. The wall construction different from that of the nearby priory suggesting a different date for the construction of this building. It may have been a late medieval parish church associated with the village of Toomevara. It is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). A cross-inscribed slab (TN022-070004-), now lost, was recovered from the vicinity of the church (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). Killanin and Duignan mention that until recently there was a ninth/tenth-century gravestone (TN022-070004-) near the E doorway of the church and that this church was possibly built on the site of St Donán's monastery (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 443). It is also possible that this was a domestic building associated with the nearby abbey complex. The site is separated from the abbey by a modern roadway. This building is depicted as a church on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. According to the OS Namebooks there is a belief that the graveyard (TN022-070003-) extended from the abbey to the present building. According to Gleeson this building may have been the remains of 'O'Meara's castle of 1541, or the 'ruined chambers thatched' of 1597' (Gleeson 1951-2, 134). In 1597, Archbishop Miler Magrath had a grant of 'the site circuit and precinct of the late Priory of Thome' with a 'butt of a ruined castle with certain ruined chambers thatched' (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN022-070003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in the centre of the village with a priory (TN022-070002-) to the S. The poorly preserved remains of the N wall of a possible rectangular church (TN022-070001-) building composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a possible priest's chamber at the W end. The wall is orientated on an E-W axis. The site has been greatly altered by clean up schemes in the area. A flat-headed doorway and window embrasures have been altered so as to make it impossible to determine their original form. A double-ope stoup inserted in the E jamb of a destroyed doorway is the only architectural feature visible (Timoney 1971, 77). The stoup is decorated with a foliage design and an angel holding a shield. The wall construction different from that of the nearby priory suggesting a different date for the construction of this building. It may have been a late medieval parish church associated with the village of Toomevara. It is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). Killanin and Duignan mention that until recently there was a ninth/tenth-century gravestone (TN022-070004-) near the E doorway of the church and that this church was possibly built on the site of St Donán's monastery (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 443). It is also possible that this was a domestic building associated with the nearby abbey complex. The site is separated from the abbey by a modern roadway. According to the OS Namebooks there is a belief that the graveyard extended from the abbey to the present building. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN022-070004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated in the centre of the village with an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) to the S. The poorly preserved remains of the N wall of a possible rectangular church (TN022-070001-) building composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a possible priest's chamber at the W end. It may have been a late medieval parish church associated with the village of Toomevara. It is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). A cross-inscribed slab, now lost, was recovered from the vicinity of the abbey (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). Described by Gleeson as 'it was on this site (TN022-070001-) near the E door that the Cross Slab was found by Mr. Hunt on a loose heap of stones. It was later seen, photographed, and a rubbing taken by Mr. S. Stewart, Right Rev. Monsignor Moloney and the author. When the Society visited the site in May it had vanished. Enquiries reveal that some of the loose stones had been put into a dump in the interval and others built into a wall by County Council workers. Efforst have so far failed to tyrace the Cross Slab' (Gleeson 1951-2, 134). Killanin and Duignan mention that until recently there was a ninth/tenth-century gravestone or cross-slab near the E doorway of the church and that this church was possibly built on the site of St Donán's monastery (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 443). This cross-slab was photographed by the National Monuments Service in 1952 but was subsequently lost and has not been discovered since. It is possible that Killanin and Duignan recorded the same cross-slab that was photographed in 1952. The cross-slab consists of a possible incised Chi-Rho cross with bifurcating terminals on the lateral arms contained within an incised circle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bunacum, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunacum.

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.

• Bunacum, Toomevara5 sales

Name

Bunacum · Bun an Choim

Area

853,321 m² (85.33 ha, 210.86 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnameadle, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Latteragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

690 people lived in 275 households in the Latteragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baynanagh, Blean, Castlequarter, Coolkereen, Knockane, Laghile, Woodlands

Placenames

Bunacum 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.