Cunnaker
Cunnaker is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyhean, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Coinicéar.
Parcel 975557
- Area
- 60,304 m² (6.03 ha, 14.9 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 817 m².
- Zoning
- M4 Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Cunnaker
Planning applications on this parcel
17 Jul 2025Conditional
The development will consist of a change of design from that previously granted under planning permission Ref. No. 22/825, consisting of the construction of an extension to the existing community centre, together with all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560480
19 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of an extension to existing club house and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23412
22 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTRE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22825
19 Aug 2020Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH TERTIARY TREATMENT UNIT
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20574
18 Jan 2019Conditional
Construct indoor handball/racquetball court
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1920
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 39 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,787 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cunnaker, from 134 m² to 87,518 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 May 2026N/a
New dwelling house and Garage with wastewater treatment system at Coollodge, Balyhean, Co Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660383
17 Jul 2025Conditional
The development will consist of a change of design from that previously granted under planning permission Ref. No. 22/825, consisting of the construction of an extension to the existing community centre, together with all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560480
19 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of an extension to existing club house and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23412
22 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTRE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22825
19 Aug 2020Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH TERTIARY TREATMENT UNIT
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20574
9 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19334
18 Jan 2019Conditional
Construct indoor handball/racquetball court
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1920
26 May 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17409
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cunnaker.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cunnaker.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cunnaker.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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 low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cunnaker.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cunnaker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cunnaker · An Coinicéar
- Area
- 390,310 m² (39.03 ha, 96.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhean, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Ballyhean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 640 people lived in 212 households in the Ballyhean electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowclogher, Cloonaghmore, Cool Lodge, Cooley, Cornaveagh, Kinturk Lower, Kinturk Upper, Lisnacurley
- Placenames
- Cunnaker 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.