Burris
Burris is a townland in the civil parish of Kilvine, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Bhuiríos.
- Area
- 139.8 ha
- 346 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 9,301 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burris, from 75 m² to 165,279 m² (16.53 ha, 40.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Burris 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Apr 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a slatted shed, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660292
9 Sept 2025Conditional
Construction of front and rear extensions to existing dwelling house, alterations to dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560615
14 Jan 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for Revised Site Boundaries to the Existing Dwelling House Granted Planning Permission under Reference P79/1142 together with All Associated Site Works and Connection into Existing Services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560017
19 Dec 2022Conditional
construct dwelling house, garage and septic tank with percolation area all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221135
18 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22115
12 May 2017Conditional
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGES AS BUILT ON SITE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17361
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Burris.
Recorded monuments
- MA112-010 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.
- MA112-011001 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.
- MA112-011002 Children's burial ground
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 Burris.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Burris, 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 low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Burris.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Burris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Burris · An Bhuiríos
- Area
- 1,398,389 m² (139.84 ha, 345.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilvine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Kilvine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 667 people lived in 260 households in the Kilvine electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvilla, Boleyboy, Cuillaun, Knockadoon, Lawaus, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Burris 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.