Burren
Burren is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is near Warrenpoint. It is not to be confused with the Burren area in County Clare.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Burren, County Down”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Narrow Water Castle.
Narrow Water Castle
Castle
Photo: Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Narrow Water Castle is a 16th-century tower house and bawn near Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland. It is beside the A2 road and on the County Down bank of the Clanrye River, which enters Carlingford Lough 1-mile to the south. Narrow Water Castle is situated 1½ miles southwest of Burren.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Warrenpoint and Rostrevor.
Warrenpoint
Town
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warrenpoint is a small port town and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits at the head of Carlingford Lough, south of Newry, and is separated from the Republic of Ireland by a narrow strait. Warrenpoint is situated 2½ miles south of Burren.
Rostrevor
Village
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rostrevor is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the foot of Slieve Martin on the coast of Carlingford Lough, near Warrenpoint. Rostrevor is situated 3½ miles southeast of Burren.
Mayobridge
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mayobridge is a village within County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the small river Clanrye, which divides the townlands of Mayo and Bavan, 4.4 miles east of Newry. Mayobridge is situated 3½ miles north of Burren.
Burren
- Category: locality
- Location: Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.13292° or 54° 7′ 59″ northLongitude
-6.2594° or 6° 15′ 34″ westElevation
433 feet (132 metres)Open location code
9C6M4PMR+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 267763173OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Pali—“Burren” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Burren”
- Dutch: “Burren, County Down”
- French: “Burren”
- Irish: “An Bhoirinn, Contae an Dúin”
- Irish: “an Bhoirinn”
- Irish: “Boirinn”
- Malay: “Burren, Daerah Down”
- Pali: “बुर्रें, काउन्टी डाउन”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burren”. Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.