Glanarough
Glanarough is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gleann na Rátha.
- Area
- 90.1 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 2,725 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glanarough, from 17 m² to 314,411 m² (31.44 ha, 77.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Glanarough 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
7 Oct 2005Conditional
Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7334
8 Mar 2002Refused
Demolition of ruined dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/1147
25 Aug 1999Conditional
Demolition of dwelling & construction of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4657
28 May 1999Conditional
Reconstruction & extension of ruined dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2828
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
- Special Protection Area: Beara Peninsula SPA 004155
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Firkeel Gap 001051
Recorded monuments
- CO126-032 Field boundary
Description
In a rough hill pasture terrace, on an E-facing slope, overlooking Glanarough, Blackball Head and the mouth of Bantry Bay. Two stones, which stand 0.4m apart and are aligned E-W, form part of a relict field boundary which extends in an E-W direction for a distance of c. 50m. The W stone (H 1m; 0.8m x 0.35m) leans to the S and the E stone (H 0.9m; 0.8m x 0.3m) is upright. The relict boundary may have been exposed when turf was cut in this area in the past. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO126-045 Mass-rock
Description
In pasture, in a garden adjacent to a road, on a S-facing slope. According to local information, this flat-topped boulder (1.9m E-W; 1.05m N-S; H 0.75m) is a mass-rock. A smaller boulder immediately to the E is partially obscured by overgrowth. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glanarough.
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 Glanarough, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Glanarough.
- 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 Glanarough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glanarough · Gleann na Rátha
- Area
- 901,349 m² (90.13 ha, 222.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilnamanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 380 people lived in 153 households in the Kilnamanagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacarriga, Canalmore, Garinish, Scrivoge
- Placenames
- Glanarough 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.