placenames1901 census
235People recorded
54Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1901 records ↗Burren
The census records a rural community within Dromara electoral division, distinct from Burren near Warrenpoint.
Recorded locationBurren54.40625° N · 5.96459° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Burren · English · main form
Place & story
Fifty-four occupied houses
The original 1901 census places Burren in Magherahamlet parish and Kinelarty barony, within Dromara electoral division. It records 235 residents, 114 male and 121 female. Fifty-four of the townland’s sixty-two houses were inhabited, while eight were uninhabited. The earlier columns give 299 residents in 1881 and 266 in 1891. Those figures show a decline across the period, but the table does not identify its cause. They describe this Magherahamlet townland, rather than the Clonallan locality near Warrenpoint whose church and football club share the Burren name. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Kinelarty
- Civil parish
- Magherahamlet
- Coordinates
- 54.40625, -5.96459
- Mapped area
- 4.98 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66779 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
187People recorded
45Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Patterson 13
- Gibson 12
- Barr 11
- McKone 11
- Tate 9
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Burren. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Down, printed p33 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, 1902
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.