Burren

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 96 m² to 343,753 m² (34.38 ha, 84.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 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.

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct Agricultural Machinery Shed, plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 26206

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  of existing extension, and elevation and floor alterations to existing dwelling along with all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560653

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  to revise previously granted permission P21-193 to include extending floor area of as granted Agricultural Slatted Unit plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24114

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct agricultural slatted unit plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21193

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  for (a) RETENTION PERMISSION for an existing garage, (b) PERMISSION to demolish a sunroom attached to existing dwelling house (c) PERMISSION to construct an extension to this dwelling house that will incorporate a Wellness and Retreat Centre including the provision of additional car parking spaces along with alteration to the existing dwelling and (d) PERMISSION to construct an outdoor wooden sauna room, along with ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 201008

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  to construct an entrance, dwelling house, domestic shed, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19395

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  for the following: a) Demolition of existing derelict sheds, b) Relocation of existing haybarn, c) Construction of a straw bedded shed with office and store, d) Construction of a cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry tank and flow channel and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18306

• 18 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment unit, associated site works including separate farmland access and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17800

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

• CL049-033 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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

At the centre of the townland of Burren, 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 Burren.

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

Name

Burren · Boirinn

Area

2,675,346 m² (267.53 ha, 661.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Clonderalaw

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

459 people lived in 158 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagla, Clooncolman, Cloondrinagh, Cloonfurrihis, Lavally, Lavally North, Lavally South, Leamnaleaha, Tonlegee

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.