Burren

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burren, from 45 m² to 406,144 m² (40.61 ha, 100.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  For proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560561

• 21 Aug 2025Refused

  RETENTION PERMISSION: 1. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXTENSIONS TO DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 17417. 2. THE GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH A FLOOR AREA OF 19M2 AND A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION WITH A COMBINED FLOOR AREA OF 68M2 CONSISTING OF A HOME OFFICE AND A DOMESTIC STORE INCLUSIVE OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560524

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information submitted 14/4/21 which includes change of house design*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 201141

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  Permission for a two storey type dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, septic tank system with percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19334

• 18 Apr 2019N/a

  Permission for a two storey type dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19305

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of proposed one and a half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on-site well, proprietary waste water treatment system, new vehicular access and associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17874

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  Retention permission for the development that will consist of the retention and completion of a domestic garage/fuel store and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17417

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of proposed single storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, on site well, new vehicular access, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system / percolation area and associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1761

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

• LH018-055 Cremation pit
  Description

  Cremation pit excavated to facilitate work on the gas pipeline in 1988 (pers. comm. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• Burren House, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840. L-plan, three-bay two-storey south main block, gable-fronted block to north-west, canted bay to east, flat-roofed single-storey porch to north. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, dentil blocks to cornice, clay pots; painted carved timber finial and bargeboards to gables; cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes. Lime-washed walling, smooth rendered walling to porch. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, roll-moulded surrounds to canted bay windows, painted carved timber surrounds to first floor windows to gables, segmental-headed windows to east and west elevations of porch, roll-moulded surrounds, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, flanked by painted timber panels, surmounted by overlights, painted timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels. Outbuildings to west, one- and two-storey structures, pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, lime-washed rubble stone walling; north-west outbuilding with hipped and pitched slate roof, square-headed window openings, painted two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted half-door, segmental-headed carriage arch, painted brick archivolt, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors. House situated within farmland.

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. Louth.

Name

Burren · An Bhoirinn

Area

1,664,310 m² (166.43 ha, 411.26 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,270 people lived in 1,088 households in the Dunleer electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athclare, Drumin, Drumin, Keeverstown, Marlay, Rokeby, Slieveboy, Stonehouse

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.