Baur North

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baur North, from 5,421 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres) to 495,850 m² (49.58 ha, 122.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Baur North 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Baur North in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL005-192 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In elevated rocky pasture, overlooking Glensleade valley to the E, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-225----). Listed as ‘Cemetery cairn’ in the RMP (1996). A grass-covered cairn (10.9m N-S; 10.2m E-W), highest to the E (H 1.2m) and falling to the S (H 0.3m). There is a slight dip in the summit of the monument (diam. 2.2m; D 0.3m). No structural stone elements are visible. A drystone field wall partially overlies the cairn. A cairn (CL005-191----) with a cist (CL005-191002-) is located c. 90m to the N and an enclosure (CL005-294----) lies c. 35m to the SE.   Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 14 October 2025

• CL005-195 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a slight rocky rise with marshy pasture to the W and scrub to the E. A possible house foundation, subcircular in shape (int. 7.2m N-S; 7.1m E-W) defined by a wall of crude rough rocks (max. Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.6-1.4m; ext. H 0.5-1.2m). The wall incorporates particularly large stone blocks along its N and S edges. It is thicker on the W side, decreasing in width to the E. Rough gaps are present at the NE and NNW. The interior slopes slightly to the S and SW and contains a few grassed-over stones.    Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 7 October 2025

• CL005-294 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in a karst landscape within an extensive field system (CL009-255----). An oval enclosure (c. 10m N-S; c. 8m E-W) defined by partially grassed-over stone walls. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). A cairn (CL005-192----) lies c. 75m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 July 2022

• CL009-019 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On a low ridge in an area of grass and scrub cover on a plateau, with land sloping gently to E. Westropp (1899, 370) recorded marks of fire on this monument. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 20) as an E–W orientated wedge tomb (L c. 5m; Wth at rear 1.75m; Wth at front 2.5m; H at rear 1.35m; H at front c. 1.6m) in the centre of a grass-covered mound (c. 12m E–W; c. 9m N–S; est. H c. 1.5m). The sides of the chamber were each formed by a single limestone slab (L 5-5.15m; H 1.35-1.4m; T 0.25m) with flat dressed upper edges sloping up to the W. The S sidestone (L 5m; H 1.35m; T 0.25m) was mostly intact. The E portion of the N sidestone (L 2.3m; H 1.3–1.35m; T 0.25m) was still standing; the W portion (L 2.75m; Wth 1.4m) was broken and lay prone to the N. The back of the chamber was closed by two low slabs (N stone: L 0.75m; H 0.3m; T 0.15m; S stone: L 0.9m; H 0.25m; T 0.2m) standing on edge. These may be the remains of a single slab, of which a possible fragment (L 1.5m; T 0.2m) lay to the E. A collapsed capstone (3.45m E–W; 1.75m N–S) rested against the internal side of the N sidestone and two more slabs (W fragment: L 2.3m; E fragment: L 1.6m) lying on the capstone may have been part of it. Two smaller slabs (L 0.7m; H 0.3-0.4m; T 0.12-0.15m) stood upright W of the N and S sidestones. They were set perpendicular to the line of the chamber and may have emphasised the entrance. A field wall, marking the townland boundary between Baur North and Cregavockoge, runs N–S over the W end of the tomb chamber. An inspection in 1998 found the wedge tomb unaltered in the interim (SMR file). A cist (CL009-019002-) lies c. 24m to the NE. The following item has been uploaded: CL009-019----_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• CL009-019002 Cist
  Description

  On a karst plateau in an area of hazel, with land gently sloping to E. A cist (L 1.14m; int. Wth 0.52m; ext. Wth 0.63m; H 0.9m) consisting of two parallel rows of large, flat slab-like stones standing on edge, orientated N–S, 0.52m apart and increasing in height from S to N. The E row (L 1.14m; Wth 0.03–0.08m; H. 0.55m) comprises three stones; the W row (L 0.82m; Wth 0.05–0.06m; H 0.9m) has two. The space between these rows is filled by large loose stones. A wedge tomb (CL009-019----) lies c.24m to the SW. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-019002-_01.jpg View of cist from SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 2 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Baur North, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Baur North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Baur North

Area

502,213 m² (50.22 ha, 124.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Baur South, Cahermacnaghten, Cregavockoge, Glensleade, Poulanine, Poulnabrucky

Placenames

Baur North 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.