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Burges Lower

Burges Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Clonpriest, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Bhuirgéis Íochtarach.

Parcel 3806731

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Burges Lower
50 m
6 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
4,463 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
Buildings
3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 345 m².
Zoning
No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
Townland
Burges Lower

Planning applications on this parcel

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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
At the centre of this parcel, 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.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1597 (ZIP).
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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.

Area
181.3 ha
448 acres
Land parcels
72
registered freehold, median 4,515 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
40
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

Burges LowerKnockmonalea WestFiniskBallymakeagh MoreInchiquinGortnagarkBurges UpperBallyglassin
1,000 m
98 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burges Lower, from 20 m² to 208,182 m² (20.82 ha, 51.44 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Burges Lower 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

The 25 most recent of 40 applications.

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 Burges Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burges Lower.

Architectural heritage

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 Burges Lower, 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, partly inferred.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1597 (ZIP).
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 Burges Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

The townland

Name
Burges Lower · An Bhuirgéis Íochtarach
Area
1,812,974 m² (181.3 ha, 448 acres)
Civil parish
Clonpriest, and its townlands
Barony
Imokilly
Electoral division
Clonpriest, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,234 people lived in 402 households in the Clonpriest electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballyglassin, Ballykilty, Ballymakeagh More, Burges Upper, Finisk, Gortnagark, Inchiquin, Knockmonalea West
Placenames
Burges Lower 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.