Burren

137 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 142 m² to 426,537 m² (42.65 ha, 105.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Burren 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.

• 22 May 2026N/a

  1. To construct a story and a half type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660279

• 17 Feb 2025Refused

  for outline permission for a dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560048

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new forest entrance along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20317

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 Burren.

Recorded monuments

• CV013-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 50m WNW-ESE; 48.3m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. From WNW-E-SSW the fosse has been infilled and survives only as a slight depression. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV013-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. 54m NE-SW;45.2m NW-SE) enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank and a fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded that there was formerly a limekiln built into the bank atN. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SEmay represent original entrance. Tradition of a spa well within the internal area (local information). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Burren.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Burren with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Burren · Boirinn

Area

3,835,223 m² (383.52 ha, 947.7 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Lissanover, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lissanover electoral division: 291 people in 105 households; 91% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coologe, Derrycassan, Derryniggin (Co. Leitrim), Doogary, Killydrum (Co. Leitrim), Kiltynaskellan, Lugnagon (Co. Leitrim), Raleagh, Sruhagh

Placenames

Burren 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.