Bunowna

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bunowna, from 18 m² to 93,825 m² (9.38 ha, 23.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5TOU – tourism-related uses (Tourism and related)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  development consisting of (1) Repair/replace roof, fascias, gutters and downpipes, (2) Repair render to external façade where required, (3) Repair/replace windows and doors, (4) Repair/replace floorboards and joists, (5) Retain/repair existing features including fireplaces, internal doors, skirtings, and coving where possible, (6) Retain and repair timber stairs, (7) Repair boundary walls and gates. All the above to be carried out in accordance with the Conservation report and recommendations submitted with this application, (8) Demolish existing boiler house to the rear, (9) Construct a single storey extension to the rear (12.4 m2), (10) All associated site works. The building is Number 88 on the Sligo County Council Record of Protected Structures.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360100

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of the installation of 116 sq.metres of temporary prefabricated accommodation together with all associated site works and connection to existing services and utilities. The accommodation includes 2 no. single storey classrooms each with floor area of 58 sqm. Part of the existing school contains a protected structure; Sligo record of protected structures 2017-2023 register no. 87 and national inventory of architectural heritage register no. 32306013.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19424

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and connect to public utilities, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18496

• 16 Apr 2018Conditional

  PP - for development consisting of erection of a two storey house with domestic garage. Connection to public mains sewer and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18118

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new single storey extension together with works to the existing school at Colaiste Iascaigh (formerly Easkey Vocational School). (Part of the existing school contain a Protected Structure; Sligo Record of Protected Structures 2011-2017 Register No. 87 and National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Reg. No: 32306013). The works shall include the construction of new school accommodation of 312 sqm floor area to include generally; 2 no. classrooms, science lab and prep area, sanitary accommodation and new boiler house. Works to the existing school shall include: the demolition of existing external gas service enclosure; reconfiguration and refurbishment of the existing science lab building. The new building and all works are to be connected to all existing public utilities together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17107

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 Bunowna.

Recorded monuments

• SL011-020 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Overlooking the sea to the N and the estuary of the River Easky to the W. The OS Letters (1836, 283 (115)), 286-7 (116-7)) recorded that the castle was built by Oliver McDonnell in 1207 and it remained in the possession of that family until 1549. In 1603, the first year of the reign of King James 1, it was granted to Daniel O'Dowd. A contemporary description of the property recorded '2 castles, a kitchen and bakehouse within the bawn of Roslee' (ITA Survey 1942-4, 11). A late 18th-century plan and drawing depicts a rectangular keep with an adjoining building, aligned E-W, at the E side. The adjoining building is rectangular in plan, longer and narrower than the keep. Extending N from the NW angle of the keep is a length of bawn wall (Grose 1797, vol. 1, 59). Only the keep now survives. This comprises a three-storey rectangular structure (12.05m E-W; 9m N-S - Wall T 2.05m) with a slight base batter. The original entrance (Wth. 1.65m), now blocked up, is at the N end of the E wall. The present entrance, formerly a window embrasure, is in the centre of the S wall. The E 1/3 of the barrel vault which covers ground-floor level is absent. A mural stairway, commencing at the N end of the E wall and returning S, gives access to the first-floor level. In the centre of the E wall, at first-floor level, is a large blocked-up window. There are also single-light windows in the S, W and N walls. There is a garderobe in the NW angle. A mural stairs in the S wall rises directly to the battlement level. Access to the second-floor level must, therefore, have been by a wooden stairway. The second-floor level is lit by windows in S and W walls only. Casey (1999, 195, P3) noted this as a potential promontory fort but on inspection, apart from some bumps and hollows inland of the tower house, there was no evidence to suggest that it was the site of an earlier promontory fort. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 December 2014

• SL011-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on broad N-S orientated ridge. Slightly raised circular area (22m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The external face of the bank is revetted along its base by large limestone blocks (av. L 0.95m; T 0.45m) at SW. From SE-S-SW, the bank has been removed and the precise limit of the site is difficult to determine here. The bank has also been removed NNW-N-NE where the footings of a post-medieval house abut the external edge of the site. The original entrance to the rath is not recognisable. A field bank (SL011-022001-), in all probability associated with the rath, lies 12m to the SW. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-022001 Field boundary
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-S ridge, located 12m to S of a rath (SL011-022001-). Substantial bank (L 40m E-W; Wth 3.5m; H 0.4m) of earth and stone. From its SE end, where it is truncated by a modern field wall, it curves to NW along the level summit of the ridge and then continues down slope, stopping c. 15m short of the E bank of the Easky River. The form of bank suggests that it is associated with the nearby rath. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-100 Midden
  Description

  Situated in a N-facing vertical earth and rock face, overlooking rocky foreshore to N. Midden extends in varying concentrations along the total length of the face from a towerhouse (SL011-020---) at E to the outflow of the Easky River at W. The main concentration of midden material is at the mouth of the Easky River. Here the midden is visible as a band (L 4m E-W; T 0.08m) of periwinkle and mussel shells within a band of darker soil, 0.3m below the top of the vertical face (total H of face 2.2m). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-143001 Enclosure
  Description

  In the NW corner of a modern walled rectangular field, located in gently undulating coastal grassland, immediately NE of Easkey village. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 560m to NE of the enclosure. This enclosure has been partly levelled. It survives as a slightly raised circular area (24.5m N-S; c. 25m E–W) defined at SW–NW by a broadly slumped bank (Wth 4-4.5m) with a relatively pronounced external scarp (ext. H 0.75m). At NNW–S the bank has been levelled and can be traced only as a low curving undulation. Close to the inner edge of the bank in the SW quadrant of the interior there is a circular hollow (5m N–S; c. 4m E–W; D 0.4m) in the centre of which is an upright stone (0.7m ENE-WSW; 0.45-0.5m NNW–SSE; H 0.95m). Abutting the enclosure at SE and S are traces of levelled field boundaries, part of a field system (SL011-143003-) that extend to SE and S. The field boundary at SE appears to connect this enclosure to another enclosure (SL011-143002-) located c. 40m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 December 2013

• SL011-143002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in the N half of a modern walled rectangular field, located in gently undulating coastal grassland. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 600m to NE of the enclosure. Subrectangular area (c. 24m NE–SW; c. 15-20m NW–SE) defined by the barely discernible undulations of a levelled bank. The outline of the bank can still be traced in part at S, W and N but is almost entirely obliterated on the E side. The interior is not raised above exterior ground level. Remnants of a levelled field boundary, part of a field system (SL011-143003-), extend to S from the S side of the enclosure. Remnants of another field boundary extend for c. 40m to NW, linking this enclosure to another enclosure (SL011-143001-). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 December 2013

• SL011-143003 Field system
  Description

  In gently undulating coastal grassland, immediately NE of Easkey village. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 500m to NE. A fragmentary field system extends over an area of c. 300m N–S by c. 400m E-W, across three adjacent modern rectangular fields. The field boundaries, which follow roughly N–S, E–W and NE–SW axes, have been levelled and can be traced intermittently as barely discernible surface undulations, mostly visible only at an oblique angle. Several field boundaries intersect but the complete outlines of individual fields can not be traced. Incorporated into the field boundaries towards the NE of their extent, are a circular enclosure (SL011-143----) and a subrectangular enclosure (SL011-143002-). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 April 2014

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span limestone road-over-river bridge, built 1847. Coursed rubble stone spandrels and parapets, ashlar string at deck level, rubble stone copings to parapets. Three segmental-headed arches to west, single round-headed narrow arch to east, dressed stone voussoirs, semi-circular dressed stone cutwaters with impost strings and domed caps. Bitmac double carriageway with concrete pedestrian footpath to south side. Spans Easky River at east entry to village.

• Bridge House, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840. Three-bay single-storey wing to west. Pitched slate roofs, roll-top clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters (missing on main house), painted timber fascias and bargeboards. Painted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to main house, smooth-rendered reveals, dressed stone plinth blocks, two stone steps, sunburst fanlight, painted timber door with two segmental-headed raised-and-fielded panels. Square-headed door opening to west wing, painted half-glazed timber door. Set back from road, small garden, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall, flat-bar wrought-iron gate on painted rubble stone piers, courtyard area to rear accessed by double wrought-iron gates to west.

• Easky Vocational School, school, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey rendered school, built 1948. Central rectangular hipped-roof block linked by flat-roofed sections set back from front (south) elevation to gable-fronted east and west wings with further L-plan north-south block to rear (north). Hipped and pitched slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, painted timber bargeboards, profiled extruded aluminium gutters c. 2000 on projecting eaves, cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings separated by slender masonry piers, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, painted concrete sills, uPVC casement windows c. 2000. Square-headed centrally-located entrance door opening, flat concrete canopy with channelled leading edge carried on painted concrete pilasters sweeping out to form deep concave consoles, painted timber double door each with two raised-and-fielded panels, plain-glazed overlight. Set in gravelled carpark, grass lawn to south, grass areas and playing fields to north, two-entrance gate sweeps to south with painted smooth-rendered walls with saddle-back coping and gate pillars, rubble stone boundary walls fronting onto main road.

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

About 1 in 5 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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Bunowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Bunowna · Bun Abhna

Area

607,734 m² (60.77 ha, 150.17 acres)

Civil parish

Easky, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Easky East electoral division: 626 people in 253 households; 72% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aderavoher, Castletown, Curraghnagap, Fortland, Keadews, Shannonspark West, Sraheens

Placenames

Bunowna 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.