Burren

157 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 175 m² to 4,636,902 m² (463.69 ha, 1,145.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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.

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  Application is being made to Mayo County Council on behalf of David & Audrey Hopkins for planning permission to construct a 3 bed single storey dwelling with a Tertiary treatment system and percolation area including the removal of a temporary mobile home on the site and all ancillary site works and services at Burren, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, F23 P202

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560398

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: River Moy SAC 002298
• Natural Heritage Area: Croaghmoyle Mountain NHA 002383

Recorded monuments

• MA069-016 Enclosure
  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

• Bridge, 1809–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. "Repaired". Part repointed coursed snecked sandstone walls with lichen-covered rendered rounded coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with sandstone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning river with unkempt banks to river.

• Aglish National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey national school, built 1889; extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan originally seven-bay single-storey on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lower porches centred on single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height gabled projecting breakfront; seven-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Extended, 1933, producing present composition. Closed, 1971. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves with replacement uPVC rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on exposed timber rafters. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings below rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1933") with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-nine timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with concrete step thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping.

• Bridge, 1809–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. "Repaired". Part repointed coursed or snecked rubble stone walls with rendered rounded coping to parapets. Single round or segmental arch between steel tie plates with lichen-covered repointed sandstone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Clydagh River with unkempt banks to river.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 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. Mayo.

Name

Burren · Boirinn

Area

7,569,685 m² (756.97 ha, 1,870.51 acres)

Civil parish

Aglish, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Burren, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burren electoral division: 366 people in 130 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarney, Commauns, Cuilmullagh, Curraghmore, Derrynadivva, Lenanavea, Sheeans

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.