Glanbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Ringcurran, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish An Gleann Beag
- Area
- 8.3 ha
- 20 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 57 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glanbeg, from 46 m² to 47,721 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 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
9 Feb 2024Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a residential development of 5 no. detached dwelling houses and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4201
1 Jul 2022Conditional
The construction of a single-storey Aldi discount food store (gross floor area of 1,819m2; net retail floor area of 1,315m2) including the sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises; green roof, rooftop solar panels and rooftop plant; loading bay; external plant enclosure; bin store; trolley bay; 102 no. car parking spaces, including EV, disabled, and parent and child spaces, 9 no. motorcycle spaces, and 24 no. covered cycle spaces; a single-storey retail building (gross retail area 226m2) which will comprise a health food shop and a youth café, with 6 no. car parking spaces, including a disabled space, and 4 no. covered cycle spaces; 1 no ESB substation; 1 no. single storey DRS units; outdoor gym equipment; signage; retaining walls; removal of 1 no existing access and 2 no. existing culverted sections of the existing stream along the eastern boundary, and provision of 2 no. new accesses over new bridge culverts from New Road, with associated railings, raised tables and pedestrian crossings; modifications to the existing pedestrian access from New Road to Barrack Street; and all associated site development, landscaping, boundary treatment and drainage works, including a foul pumping station and vent stack, on site at New Road and Barrack Street, Townplots, Kinsale, Co.Cork
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5546
22 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Extension to existing industrial manufacturing facility, alterations to roadside boundary comprising relocation of vehicular entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6942
13 Jun 2019Conditional
To erect photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of existing SuperValu supermarket.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5558
14 May 2019Incompleted application
To erect photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of existing SuperValu supermarket.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5216
28 Feb 2013Conditional
Alterations to previously permitted development, planning reference 10/53019. The proposed alterations and amendments to the permitted development are as follows: (1) various alterations to the elevations, (2) the reduction of the area of first floor plant area with the floor area gained to be used for ancillary use to the permitted retail area, (3) adjustment of the parapet height, (4) permission for the provision of extra stair cores and final exits, additional to those permitted under the aforementioned planning reference, (5) permission for the altertion of the delivery area to the front of the store & (6) permission for an increase in the floor space of the part first floor, to be wholly contained within the permitted building envelope and for the provision of consulting facilities/medical-related and ancillary office uses
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/53005
9 Jan 2013Conditional
Amendments to permitted developoment Planning Ref. 10/53019. These amendments comprise the change of use of the permitted first floor library use to consulting room/office and medical related use. This application relates to the change of use of the permitted first floor library suite comprising 344sq.m.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/53001
21 Dec 2012Withdrawn
Revisions to previously granted planning Permission Ref. 10/53019. The revisions comprise various elevational changes, including alterations to the external wall finishes & miscellaneious alterations to the fenestration
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/53028
20 Dec 2010Conditional
Construction of a mixed use retail and community facilities development. The proposed 2 storey over lower ground floor development with a gross floor area of 5,763 m2 will provide for a licensed supermarket with a nett retail area of 1,730m2 and a retail unit of 106 m2 on the upper ground floor and a library of 344 m2 on the first floor. Parking for the proposed development will be provided by a lower ground floor car park and by an upgrade of the existing surface car park. Access to the existing surface car park will be via a proposed entrance at the south western end of the car park, the existing surface car park entrance on New Road is to be changed to exit only, access to the lower ground floor car park will be via a proposed entrance at the existing site access at The Glen, Kinsale, Co. Cork, it is also proposed to construct a new ESB substation adjacent to this entrance. Stores for the proposed licensed supermarket will be provided at the lower ground floor and upper ground floor levels with staff facilities on the first floor and ancillary plant on the roof. The proposed development will include all ancillary building signage and siteworks and the erection of a feature sign on the northern side of the existing surface car park entrance at New Road. The proposed development will also include upgrade works to the existing roadways in the vicinity of the existing New Road/Barrack Hill junction
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/53019
24 Apr 2009Conditional
The development will consist of alterations to a previously permitted development (Planning Reg. No. 05/53046) which comprised a convenience retail anchor, 9 no. retail units, child care drop-in centre, 6 no. maisonettes, 8 no. apartments, 116 car parking spaces, and ancillary circulation, plant and service yard. The alterations to the permitted development comprise internal alterations consisting of; the relocation of the convenience retail anchor unit including an off-licence (106 sqm) to ground floor level; construction of mezzanine level for the convenience retail anchor; provision of one retail unit at ground floor level; provision of a discount retail unit including an off-licence (42 sqm) on the first floor level; provision of one retail unit at first floor level; consequent alterations to mall, toilets, plant room, lifts and stairs, enclosed service yard; alterations to apartments, lifts and stairs at second and third floor levels; minor amendment to the foyer area at ground and first floor level, minor elevational changes. The total gross area, excluding ancillary car parking, is 5,873 sq.m. as permitted under planning 05/53046.
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/53006
17 Aug 2006Conditional
Alterations and extension to boat workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9848
20 Dec 2005Conditional
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF NO. RETAIL UNITS, CHILDCARE DROP IN CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED ENTRANCE FOYER, MALL, LOBBIES, TOILETS AND PLANT ROOM AT LOWER GROUND FLOOR LEVEL; 1 NO. CONVENIENCE RETAIL ANCHOR, 3 NO. RETAIL UNITS, MALL, LIFT LOBBY AND ENCLOSED SERVICE YARD AT GROUND LEVEL; 6 NO. MAISONETTES, 5 NO. APARTMENTS WITH ASSOCIATED ACCESS AND CIRCULATION, AND CAR PARKING FOR 58 CARS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL; 3 NO. APARTMENTS WITH ASSOCIATED ACCESS AND CIRCULATION, AND CAR PARKING FOR 58 CARS AT SECOND FLOOR LEVEL. THE TOTAL GROSS FLOOR AREA EXCLUDING ANCILLARY CAR PARKING IS 5873 M SQUARED.
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/53046
25 Mar 2003Conditional
Construction of one storey office and storage extension and external storage compound to rear of craft manufacturing facility
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1331
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 Glanbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glanbeg.
Architectural heritage
- Kinsale Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey former railway goods shed and platform, built c.1870, now derelict. Barrelled corrugated-iron roof with canopy to front (north-east) elevation, red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered plinth walls surmounted by corrugated-iron. Steel girder frame visible to corners. Square-headed window opening having timber sill and three-over-one pane timber casement window. Square-headed door openings to front elevation, having sliding timber battened doors with wrought-iron running rails. Rubble stone walls to platforms with red brick coping. Rubble stone boundary wall to south with cement coping and red brick steps. Wrought-iron double-leaf gates to gate.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glanbeg.
- 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 Glanbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glanbeg · An Gleann Beag
- Area
- 82,810 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringcurran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsale Urban electoral division: 2,631 people in 1,039 households; 54% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knocknabohilly, Rathvallikeen, Sleveen, Town-Plots, Troopers-Close, Waters-Land South
- Placenames
- Glanbeg 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.