Baurroe
Townland in the civil parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Barr Rua
- Area
- 178.6 ha
- 441 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 788 m²
- Zoning
- M2
- Mixed Use
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baurroe, from 12 m² to 240,394 m² (24.04 ha, 59.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Community (Education)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Feakle Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Feb 2026Conditional
to renovate, alter and extend dwelling house, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2632
6 Sept 2023Conditional
for development which will consist of: 1. Demolish existing dressing rooms building. 2. Construct a new building comprising of dressing rooms, meeting rooms, gymnasium, tearoom, ancillary club shop, medical room, referees changing rooms and all ancillary areas. 3. To decommission existing septic tank and install a new foul sewer connection to existing Irish Water sewer network. 4. All associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360361
8 Jul 2022Conditional
to convert existing rear store building into 2 No Apartments, 1 No 2 Bed Apartment at ground floor level and 1 No 2 Bed Apartment at 1st floor level, raise existing roof level, demolish ground floor toilet extension at rear of bar/shop and make good together with associated development works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22616
6 Oct 2021Conditional
of an extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 211064
31 Jan 2020Conditional
to construct a 36 metre multi-user lattice tower carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4 palisade fence compound including new access track
Permission · Clare County Council, 2051
18 Dec 2019Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19991
1 Dec 2017Conditional
Construction 13 no. dwelling units including roads, parking, footpaths, amenity area, drainage, public lighting and all associated ancillary site development works.
Permission, 13 homes · Clare County Council, 178008
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- CL028-063 Architectural fragment
Description
Two fragments from one of the four pinnacles that formerly adorned the tower of the C of I church (CL028-003001-) in Feakle: the church, built 1824, was demolished in the 1950s (SMR file). The fragments had been set up as an ornamental feature at the roadside and was toppled in the mid – late 1990s (ibid.) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 5 February 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baurroe.
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 high, 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 Baurroe.
- 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 Baurroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Baurroe · An Barr Rua
- Area
- 1,786,042 m² (178.6 ha, 441.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Feakle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Ayle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ayle electoral division: 373 people in 142 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bauragegaun, Derrywillin, Feakle, Glenbonniv, Knockalisheen
- Placenames
- Baurroe 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.