Buncrowey

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncrowey, from 11,764 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres) to 188,499 m² (18.85 ha, 46.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Buncrowey 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.

• 23 Sept 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the demolition of the existing dwelling and construct a bungalow type dweling on the same site, detached garage, site entrance and boundary fence, tertiary wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19395

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 Buncrowey.

Recorded monuments

• SL017-022001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the riverward crest of one of the grass-covered terraces that constitute the E-side of the Easky valley. This enclosure is subrectangular (28m NW-SE; 23m NNE-SSW) in plan, and is enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth c.3m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.5m) with the lower courses of boulders. The enclosing wall is truncated at WNW by a later field boundary, on a NNE–SSW axis. The interior slopes down from E to W. A line of boulders, with a bank (H 0.6m) or accumulation of soil on its E side, extends from the enclosing wall at N for several meters through the interior to S. It lies c. 3.5m E of the W side of the enclosure. Conjoined to the E side of the enclosure, is a second, smaller, subrectangular enclosure (SL017-022002-). The shared wall between the two enclosures is most substantial at its N and S end but is narrower in between. There is no gap evident allowing access from one enclosure to the other. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-022002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the riverward crest of one of the grass-covered terraces that constitute the E-side of the Easky valley. This enclosure is subrectangular or roughly D-shaped (17.5m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) in plan and is enclosed by a stone bank (int. H 0.4; ext. H 0.7-1m). It is conjoined on its W side to a larger subrectangular enclosure (SL017-022001-). The shared wall between the two enclosures is most substantial at its N and S end but is narrower in between. There is no gap evident allowing access from one enclosure to the other. In the interior of this enclosure, an internal dividing wall extends in an arc from the enclosure wall at W to meet the enclosure wall at S, defining a subtriangular space (9.4m NW-SE; 6.5m NE-SW) in the SW quadrant. A gap, flanked by two orthostats, in the internal wall allows access to the space. The enclosed space encompasses a raised area or platform. On top of the platform is a semicircular setting of split boulders, possibly a hut site (SL017-022003-). In the NW quadrant of the enclosure is a second raised platform. Immediately to the E of this are the foundations of a rectangular stone-built house (SL017-022004-). Adjacent to the enclosure wall in the SE quadrant is a third small, irregular-shaped building (SL017-022005-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-022003 Hut site
  Description

  In an enclosure (SL017-022002-). This consists of a semi-circular (diam. c. 4.5-5m) setting of large split stones, possibly the basal course of a hut site. It is built on a raised area or platform enclosed within a subtriangular space (9.4m NW-SE; 6.5m NE-SW) in the SW quadrant of the enclosure. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-022004 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the N half of an enclosure (SL017-022002-). This comprises the foundations of a rectangular house (6m N-S; 2.5m E-W). It is defined on the E, S and W by substantial, regularly-shaped stone blocks. At N it abutts the enclosure wall. The entrance (Wth 1m) is off-centre in the S wall. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-022005 Building
  Description

  In an enclosure (SL017-022002-). In the SE quadrant of the enclosure is an irregularly-shaped structure (L 4.6m E-W) defined by a basal course comprising firmly-set stone blocks. It has remnants of a possible internal division and was interpreted by the fieldworker as an outbuilding rather than a habitation site. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-041 Habitation site
  Description

  Locating in old turf cuttings, on a broad, flat expanse of bog bordered at E by the valley of the Buncrowey River and at W by a small stream valley. There is a forestry plantation c. 40 m to SE. This monument was exposed during turf cutting in the 1960s. When first inspected in 1963, it was partly concealed by peat layers and consisted of a central cairn or pile of stones, incorporating hearths or areas of burning. The cairn was enclosed by a narrow fosse. Small timber stakes were lying in a horizontal position in the bottom of the fosse. Immediately outside the fosse was a low enclosing wall (Wth c. 1m; H 0.45m) of small rounded boulders. Further turf cutting during the 1960’s exposed more of the cairn (SMR file). When inspection in 1994, the monument was visible as a cairn (5.5m NW–SE; 4m NE–SW; H c. 0.7m) located off-centre within an irregular enclosing wall, partly concealed by bushes and bog regeneration. The poorly preserved wall enclosed an area c. 11m NW–SE by 9.5m NE–SW. The fosse between the cairn and the enclosing wall was no longer evident. An inspection in 2014 found that the cairn is evident only as a slight rise (c. 6-7m N–S; c. 5m E–W; H c. 0.3-0.4m) entirely engulfed in thick heather, with small willow scrub at the N end. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 August 2014

• SL017-055 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This is a duplicate record: the cairn is recorded as part of a habitation site (SL017-041----). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 September 2014

• SL017-090 Field boundary
  Description

  Locating in a flat expanse of cutaway blanket bog, bordered at SW-N by pasture fields. This possible field wall consists of a gapped, single row of stones which can be traced for 9m on a NNE–SSW axis, with another short section extending from the SSW end for 3.5m to S. The stones of the NNE–SSW section are more fully exposed and relatively close-set, with maximum dimensions in the range of 0.4-0.8m, and height of up to 0.45m. The stones of the shorter N–S section barely protrude above the bog surface. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Buncrowey, 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 Buncrowey.

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 Buncrowey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Buncrowey · Bun Crumhaí

Area

740,102 m² (74.01 ha, 182.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Buncrowey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

294 people lived in 123 households in the Buncrowey electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camcuill, Cannaghanally, Cuskernagh, Fartannan, Knockanbaun, Rathgoonaun

Placenames

Buncrowey 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.