Glen South
Townland in the civil parish of Clooney (ennistimon Ra), barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare
- Area
- 37.9 ha
- 94 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 1,977 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen South, from 172 m² to 49,483 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S4Community (General public administration)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S2Community (Health and related)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Nov 2023Conditional
P22/95 to build a dwelling house and garage, connect to public services and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23589
13 Jan 2023Conditional
for the renovation of an existing cottage and single storey extension to the rear of the cottage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2315
4 Feb 2022Conditional
for two no. dwelling houses and garages Planning Application previously granted under P09/519) Connect to public services and carry out all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 2295
31 Dec 2020Refused
for development at this site of a private dwelling house, polytunnel dome, refurbishment of the existing access lane with widened entrance and all necessaries utilities and services connections. The existing dwelling shall be retained and incorporated in the new dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 201013
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 Glen South.
Recorded monuments
- CL023-011002 Castle - tower house
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 8 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glen South.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glen South.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Glen South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Glen South
- Area
- 378,596 m² (37.86 ha, 93.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (ennistimon Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Ennistimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ennistimon electoral division: 2,514 people in 934 households; 63% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnacullia North, Ennistimon, Garraun, Glen North, Knockdrummagh South, Woodmount
- Placenames
- Glen South 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.