Burroge

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burroge, from 159 m² to 321,310 m² (32.13 ha, 79.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Burroge 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Burroge in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA115-012 Enclosure
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1929 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m). No visible surface trace survives. A modern outbuilding occupies all or part of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 July 2019

• GA115-013 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 27m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). Due to extensive quarrying, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 July 2019

• GA115-014 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On level pastureland, immediately to to the S of a small stream. This megalithic tomb consists of a chamber (L 2.5m; Wth 1.3m) aligned NW-SE. It is formed by a backstone at E, two sidestones at S, a single sidestone at N, and a high septal-stone at W. The chamber is filled with field stones. The remains of another wedge tomb (GA115-015----) stand c. 120m to the ENE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 August 2019

• GA115-015 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Some 120m to the ENE of another wedge tomb (GA115-014----). This tomb comprises a low mound (diam. c. 4m) along the perimeter of which are three outward-leaning slabs at N and a single set stone at S: these are aligned E-W. Four other stones protrude from the mound and a large slab lies to NW. The stones along the perimeter could be interpreted as the remains of the outer-walling of the wedge tomb. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 August 2019

• GA115-055 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Burroge.

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 Burroge, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Burroge.

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 Burroge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Burroge · An Bhorróg

Area

1,947,571 m² (194.76 ha, 481.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenadeema, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Aille, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 146 households in the Aille electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caheratrim, Glenaclara East, Killeenadeema West, Sonnagh New

Placenames

Burroge 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.