Burgage

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burgage, from 135,581 m² (13.56 ha, 33.5 acres) to 198,032 m² (19.8 ha, 48.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Burgage 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.

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  the retention of the partial conversion and continued use of the existing stable yard outbuildings, located within the curtilage of Burgage House, which is a Protected Structure (RPS Ref: CW224), to provide 4 no. self-catering accommodation units and the continued use of a ground floor unit at the north-east corner of the stable yard as an estate office along with all associated drainage, together with refurbishment and re-roofing works of an existing tack room/ store to provide upper floor living accommodation and the addition of five east facing dormer windows above self-catering [unit 4], and the installation of a proposed dedicated waste water treatment system and polishing filter, ancillary services and all associated siteworks.

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2660281

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW016-004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Disused and closed in.

Architectural heritage

• Burgage House, house, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house with dormer attic, c. 1765, with round-headed door opening having block-and-start doorcase. Extended to rear, c. 1800, with bow added. Interior retains lugged architraves, timber panelled doors, cornices and timber staircases.

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 Burgage, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2412 (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.

No address of the register names Burgage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Burgage · Burgáiste

Area

333,648 m² (33.36 ha, 82.45 acres)

Civil parish

Wells, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Leighlinbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,679 people lived in 637 households in the Leighlinbridge electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockan, Closutton, Killinane, Leighlinbridge, Rathellin

Placenames

Burgage 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.