# Burren, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Touaghty, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Boirinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 542,330 m² (54.23 ha, 134.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,733 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Touaghty, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/touaghty.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Roslee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Roslee electoral division: 443 people in 154 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35217 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150508 - Centre: latitude 53.740884, longitude -9.188572 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 73 m² to 119,560 m² (11.96 ha, 29.54 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 902702: 119,560 m² (11.96 ha, 29.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902702.md - Parcel 902429: 82,021 m² (8.2 ha, 20.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902429.md - Parcel 1003050: 61,265 m² (6.13 ha, 15.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003050.md - Parcel 907239: 31,485 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/907239.md - Parcel 986508: 25,434 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986508.md - Parcel 978087: 24,063 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/978087.md - Parcel 902430: 19,143 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902430.md - Parcel 960210: 16,221 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960210.md - Parcel 902431: 14,499 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902431.md - Parcel 875407: 13,128 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875407.md - Parcel 960211: 4,733 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960211.md - Parcel 997956: 4,545 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997956.md - Parcel 911893: 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911893.md - Parcel 2718764: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2718764.md - Parcel 978321: 1,758 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/978321.md - Parcel 891616: 1,605 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/891616.md - Parcel 871061: 1,482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/871061.md - Parcel 960212: 1,233 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/960212.md - Parcel 971992: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/971992.md - Parcel 880003: 251 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/880003.md - Parcel 4632925: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632925.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) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 24426: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24426/0 - 1 Aug 2024, Mayo County Council 2460480: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. The application will consist of planning permission for (1) demolish the existing dwelling house, 2) construct new dwelling house, 3) construct new entrance and 4) construct new onsite treatment system along as ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460480/0 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) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burren. ## 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: 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: Susceptibility 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, 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/mayo/burren-150508.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/burren-150508.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/burren-150508.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. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrownahaltore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrownahaltore.md - Carrowreaghmony: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowreaghmony.md - Knockatotaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockatotaun-152166.md - Mountpleasant: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mountpleasant.md - Parks: https://everytownland.com/mayo/parks.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/mayo/burren-150508 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/burren-150508