Buncarrick
Buncarrick is a townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Bun Carraige.
- Area
- 36.8 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 20,437 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buncarrick, from 1,585 m² to 154,043 m² (15.4 ha, 38.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Buncarrick 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
8 Jan 2026Refused
Permission for the retention of a temporary storage facility
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260017
2 Apr 2025Refused
Permission for the demolition of a former dwelling and the construction of a new
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20200802
24 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a gymnasium building incorporating
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241159
2 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of permanent lighting over existing walking track gr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211044
11 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of an extension and alterations to an existing cott
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210722
16 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 1) An all-weather outdoor training facility a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201556
30 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF AN EXTENSION OF 3M ON TOP O
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191731
15 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE: THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181412
23 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (1) ALTERATIONS AND AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DW
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180695
19 Jan 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING 1). ALTERATIONS AND AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180047
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 Buncarrick.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buncarrick.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Buncarrick.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Buncarrick, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Buncarrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Buncarrick · Bun Carraige
- Area
- 368,346 m² (36.83 ha, 91.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Lady's Island, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballare, Ballyfane, Cousinstown, Eardownes Great, Knockaneasy, Nineteenacres, St. Awaries
- Placenames
- Buncarrick 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.