Burris

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burris, from 3,649 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres) to 104,986 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Burris 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Burris.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burris.

Architectural heritage

• Crossboyne Bridge, bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. "Repaired". Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north-east) elevation on mass concrete battered bases including central triangular cutwater-cum-pedestrian refuge with repointed squared limestone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of five arches with repointed voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt banks to river.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1826-7; dated 1827; extant 1838, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east) with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Improved", 1898, producing present composition. Extensively renovated, 1988, with sanctuary reordered. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a cruciform plan with ridge tiles terminating in cut-limestone Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane uPVC fittings having stained glass margins. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Lancet window opening to tower (first stage) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings to "cheeks" with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled double doors having overlights. Lancet window openings (second stage) centred on lancet niche on rope twist-detailed drag edged cut-limestone date stone ("1827") with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane uPVC fittings having stained glass margins. Lancet openings (bell stage) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); round-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior with carpet tiled central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (east) reordered, 1988, with segmental-headed chancel arch framing cut-veined white marble Gothic-style reredos below "Trinity Window", and vaulted timber boarded ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Burris, about 1 in 10 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

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.

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

Name

Burris · An Bhuiríos

Area

120,511 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres)

Civil parish

Crossboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Crossboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

600 people lived in 215 households in the Crossboyne electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlemagarretpark Old, Crossboyne, Drummin West

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.