# Burren, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilchreest, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare; in Irish Boirinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,675,346 m² (267.53 ha, 661.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,148 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilchreest, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilchreest.md - Barony: Clonderalaw - Electoral division: Kilchreest, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6913 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30430 - Centre: latitude 52.721459, longitude -9.122211 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 96 m² to 343,753 m² (34.38 ha, 84.94 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1503191: 343,753 m² (34.38 ha, 84.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503191.md - Parcel 1436939: 236,308 m² (23.63 ha, 58.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436939.md - Parcel 1483231: 212,448 m² (21.24 ha, 52.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483231.md - Parcel 3082384: 191,750 m² (19.17 ha, 47.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3082384.md - Parcel 1487890: 188,887 m² (18.89 ha, 46.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487890.md - Parcel 1432900: 183,247 m² (18.32 ha, 45.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432900.md - Parcel 1479344: 164,260 m² (16.43 ha, 40.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1479344.md - Parcel 1483894: 150,712 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483894.md - Parcel 1510235: 133,971 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510235.md - Parcel 5336729: 75,079 m² (7.51 ha, 18.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5336729.md - Parcel 1477645: 74,536 m² (7.45 ha, 18.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477645.md - Parcel 5241848: 60,907 m² (6.09 ha, 15.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241848.md - Parcel 1503541: 54,166 m² (5.42 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503541.md - Parcel 1453478: 51,460 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453478.md - Parcel 1515906: 49,362 m² (4.94 ha, 12.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515906.md - Parcel 1472970: 42,917 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472970.md - Parcel 1437146: 37,875 m² (3.79 ha, 9.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437146.md - Parcel 1433683: 34,758 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1433683.md - Parcel 1459835: 33,436 m² (3.34 ha, 8.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1459835.md - Parcel 1458398: 32,248 m² (3.22 ha, 7.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458398.md - Parcel 1506257: 31,761 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1506257.md - Parcel 1450151: 30,629 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450151.md - Parcel 1430473: 29,869 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430473.md - Parcel 5241847: 26,779 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241847.md - Parcel 1518931: 23,487 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518931.md - Parcel 1431789: 22,148 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431789.md - Parcel 1516273: 22,037 m² (2.2 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516273.md - Parcel 1444428: 21,692 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444428.md - Parcel 4677374: 21,531 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4677374.md - Parcel 1472971: 21,334 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472971.md - Parcel 1432162: 19,166 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432162.md - Parcel 1455679: 7,027 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455679.md - Parcel 5249385: 6,899 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5249385.md - Parcel 2760847: 6,241 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2760847.md - Parcel 3076000: 3,984 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3076000.md - Parcel 5286902: 3,713 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5286902.md - Parcel 1503389: 3,101 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503389.md - Parcel 5597122: 3,003 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5597122.md - Parcel 1496444: 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496444.md - Parcel 1476837: 2,345 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476837.md - Parcel 1490288: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1490288.md - Parcel 1519347: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519347.md - Parcel 1514168: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514168.md - Parcel 1511493: 1,979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1511493.md - Parcel 1493055: 1,912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1493055.md - Parcel 3120068: 1,547 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3120068.md - Parcel 1493056: 1,458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1493056.md - Parcel 1448145: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448145.md - Parcel 1472972: 558 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472972.md - Parcel 1487891: 238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487891.md - Parcel 5286903: 96 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5286903.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 24 Jul 2026, Clare County Council 26206: N/a. Permission. to construct Agricultural Machinery Shed, plus all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/26206/0 - 23 Oct 2025, Clare County Council 2560653: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of existing extension, and elevation and floor alterations to existing dwelling along with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560653/0 - 8 Apr 2024, Clare County Council 24114: Conditional. Permission. to revise previously granted permission P21-193 to include extending floor area of as granted Agricultural Slatted Unit plus all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24114/0 - 4 Mar 2021, Clare County Council 21193: Conditional. Permission. to construct agricultural slatted unit plus all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21193/0 - 23 Dec 2020, Clare County Council 201008: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201008/0 - 16 May 2019, Clare County Council 19395: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct an entrance, dwelling house, domestic shed, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19395/0 - 17 Apr 2018, Clare County Council 18306: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18306/0 - 18 Oct 2017, Clare County Council 17800: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment unit, associated site works including separate farmland access and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17800/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Burren. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL049-033: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL049-033----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Burren. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/burren.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/burren.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/burren.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Burren with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnagla: https://everytownland.com/clare/ardnagla.md - Clooncolman: https://everytownland.com/clare/clooncolman.md - Cloondrinagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloondrinagh-30710.md - Cloonfurrihis: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfurrihis.md - Lavally: https://everytownland.com/clare/lavally.md - Lavally North: https://everytownland.com/clare/lavally-north.md - Lavally South: https://everytownland.com/clare/lavally-south.md - Leamnaleaha: https://everytownland.com/clare/leamnaleaha.md - Tonlegee: https://everytownland.com/clare/tonlegee-32222.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/burren - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/burren