Bunnadober
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanagh, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Bun na dTobar
- Area
- 80.9 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 20,072 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnadober, from 77 m² to 115,760 m² (11.58 ha, 28.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 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
21 May 2026Conditional
To upgrade an existing field entrance to a forestry standard road entrance
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660191
23 Jan 2026N/a
the upgrade of an existing field entrance to a Forestry Standard road entrance
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660022
23 Dec 2025N/a
The upgrade of an existing field entrance to a forestry standard road entrance.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2514
15 Sept 2025N/a
The upgrade of an existing field entrance to a forestry standard road entrance.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2510
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 Bunnadober.
Recorded monuments
- SL040-188001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on an E-facing slope. An oval area (int. diam. 41m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved at N. There is an entrance (Wth 6.1m) in the N arc. The E portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the slope. There is a possible souterrain (SL040-18802-) in the SW quadrant. The perimeter along the E and S arcs is densely overgrown. The rath was recorded in 1836 as 'Lios Bán' (OSL, 156). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Attached images: SL040-188001-_01.JPG viewed from N SL040-188001-_02.JPG viewed from NE Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL040-188002 Souterrain
Description
In the SW quadrant of a rath (SL040-18801-). A depression (dims. 8.7m x 4.2m), covered by overgrowth, may indicate a collapsed souterrain chamber. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Attached image: SL040-188002-_01.JPG viewed from N Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnadober.
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
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnadober.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bunnadober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnadober · Bun na dTobar
- Area
- 809,479 m² (80.95 ha, 200.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Aghanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghanagh electoral division: 391 people in 143 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghboy, Ballinafad, Cartron, Corradoo East, Gortalough
- Placenames
- Bunnadober 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.