Bunnanilra
Townland in the civil parish of Castleconor, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Bun an Iolra
- Area
- 181.9 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunnanilra, from 178 m² to 199,576 m² (19.96 ha, 49.32 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bunnanilra 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2026Conditional
construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660225
8 Oct 2025N/a
construction of a dwelling house with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560414
20 Feb 2025N/a
Indoor horse exercise shed and associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560060
20 Nov 2024Refused
construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated siteworks.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460419
4 Oct 2024Conditional
the upgrade of existing agricultural access. Including all other ancillary site work and services
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460337
23 May 2024N/a
Consist of the upgrade of existing Agricultural Access. Including all other ancillary site work and services.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460181
17 Mar 2024Conditional
planning permission for the construction of a slatted cattle shed with holding tank under built onto adjoining agricultural building and to carry out ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460075
1 Mar 2022Conditional
Development consisting of demolition of existing dry store sheds and construction of new slatted shed together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2277
6 Dec 2021Refused
Development consisting of the construction of 1 No. dwelling house incorporating domestic garage and wastewater treatment system with raised soil polishing filter, including all other ancillary site work and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21479
26 Feb 2021Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear and side of our existing dwelling house and a new garage together with all associated site works and connection into existing services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2160
1 Oct 2018Conditional
Development consisting of (1) erection of a revised two storey extension to existing dwelling house which was previously granted planning under PL18/139. (2) carry out all associated alterations and refurbishments to existing dwelling associated with the proposed works, together with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18396
26 Apr 2018Conditional
for development consisting of (1) Construction of a two storey extension to the southern elevation of the existing dwelling house, (2) To carry out minor alterations to the existing dwelling house to accommodate refurbishment works and (3) To carry out ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18139
20 Dec 2017Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, install treatment unit with percolation area and to carry out ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17475
29 Mar 2017Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house and proprietary effluent treatment system, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17120
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 Bunnanilra.
Recorded monuments
- SL022-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
In average pasture, situated on a low N-S ridge. Remains comprise a slightly raised subcircular area (diam. 25-30m) enclosed at SW by fragmentary traces of a bank with an external fosse. Elsewhere bank and fosse have been levelled. A roughly-shaped quern stone (max. dim. 0.56m; T 0.1m) was uncovered during ploughing within the internal area. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bunnanilra.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bunnanilra.
- 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 Bunnanilra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Bunnanilra · Bun an Iolra
- Area
- 1,819,487 m² (181.95 ha, 449.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleconor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor West electoral division: 1,095 people in 379 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoneen, Corbally, Cottlestown, Killanly, Lecarrownaveagh, Newtown
- Placenames
- Bunnanilra 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.