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About Burren

Burren is a village in County Mayo, 73 km north of Galway. The map gives it 278 buildings and 0 named streets, with 0 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 112 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 84th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
73 km north of Galway, 210 km from Dublin
Position
53.9119° N, 9.3058° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
278 buildings, 0 streets, 0 named places in 15 kinds

Burren in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1252 to 2001. That is not a history of Burren, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12522001Strade AbbeyNational Museum of Ireland, Country Life
The thirteenth century
  • 1252Strade AbbeyHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twenty-first century

County Mayo since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

388,887109,525137,97018412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 112 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Burren; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Burren?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 73 km north of Galway and 210 km from Dublin.
How big is Burren?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 278 buildings, 0 named streets and 0 named places, which by building count makes it the 84th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Burren?
112 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Anaffrin, Lough Rusheen and Lough Naspleenagh.
How do you get to Burren?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
278
buildings on the model
0
named streets
0
named places
15
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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