Baurroe
Baurroe is a townland in the civil parish of Latteragh, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Barr Rua.
- Area
- 136.6 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 28,055 m² (2.81 ha, 6.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baurroe, from 266 m² to 423,092 m² (42.31 ha, 104.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Baurroe 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
28 Jul 2025Conditional
slatted cattle house with underground slurry accommodation, cattle crush, ancillary concrete and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25149
20 Aug 2019Conditional
single storey house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment tank, percolation area and entrance, previous planning application 07511313
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600922
12 Aug 2019N/a
single storey house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment tank, percolation area and entrance, previous planning application 07511313
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600883
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 Baurroe.
Recorded monuments
- TN028-009 Moated site
Description
Situated in a slight narrow valley in an upland area on a NE-facing slope. A raised square-shaped area (dims. 18m NE-SW; 18.5m NW-SE) enclosed by a well-preserved earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.5m) and wide flat-bottomed waterlogged fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 1.3m). No entrance feature visible. A stream intersects the fosse at NW and runs from NW through N to E where it exits the fosse. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baurroe.
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 Baurroe, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Baurroe.
- 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 Baurroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Baurroe · An Barr Rua
- Area
- 1,366,418 m² (136.64 ha, 337.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Latteragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Aghnameadle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 350 people lived in 102 households in the Aghnameadle electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough, Bredagh, Glenaguile, Lackakera, Latteragh, Monanore, Rosgoordagh
- Placenames
- Baurroe 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.