Glasheenanargid
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Glaisín an Airgid
- Area
- 125 ha
- 309 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 8,030 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glasheenanargid, from 969 m² to 442,019 m² (44.2 ha, 109.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
No zone of a development plan covers Glasheenanargid 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
18 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
(i) Permission for Retention to retain existing slatted tank as constructed (ii) Permission to construct a new shed over the aforementioned tank. Proposed new shed to facilitate a covered collecting/holding yard, cubicles and easy feed. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0988
19 Mar 2026Invalid - prepare letters
(i) Retention Permission to retain existing slatted tank as constructed (ii) Construct a new shed over aforementioned tank & ancillary external concrete. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0679
15 Jul 2025Refused
Permission for the continued operation of the existing Taurbeg Wind Farm, which includes 11 no. turbines, a 38kV substation and associated infrastructure (as permitted by cork county council ref N/02/3608) for a further period of 10 years from the date of expiry of the current planning permission and for the decommissioning of the entire Taurbeg Wind Farm at the end of that further period. All elements of the wind farm are pre-existing and no modifications are proposed to the existing Taurbeg wind farm as part of this planning application. The Taurbeg wind farm comprises the following elements: 1. 11 no. existing wind turbines with a tip height of 108.2 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas, 2) 1 no. existing onsite 38kV electrical substation including a control building, associated electrical plant and equipment, welfare facilities and a wastewater holding tank, 3) 1no. existing meteorological mast with height of 67m, 4) all existing underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the existing wind turbines to the existing onsite 38kV substation, 5) an existing gated site entrance and existing internal access tracks, 6) existing site drainage, 7) existing ancillary infrastructure, associated site fencing and signage. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in relation to the proposed development and accompany this planning application. The EIAR assess both the continued operation of the Taurbeg wind farm as well as integral elements of the wider project comprising the undertaking of removal of commercial forestry and restoration of farmland habitat at Coom and Knockatee County Kerry, which constitute offsetting measures associated with the continued operation of the Taurbeg Wind Farm. These offsetting measures are located in a separate planning authority jurisdiction (Kerry County Council) and will be subject of a separate planning application to the planning authority.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5406
26 Sept 2016Refused
To amend Condition No. 7 of windfarm development permitted under planning Reg No. 02/3608 which specified that ‘the structures shall be removed at the expiration of a period of 20 years beginning on the date of commissioning of the development to allow for a period of 25 years from the date of commissioning instead of 20 years specified in the condition and extend the permitted operational lifetime of the Taurbeg Windfarm for a period of 5 years (2026-2031) and Permission for the clear felling of approximately 0.15ha of existing conifer plantation and the replanting of same
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6366
1 Sept 2016Incompleted application
A Ten Year Permission for development of this site. To extend the permitted operational lifetime of the Taurbeg wind farm for a period of 5 no. years (2026-2031), from 20 to 25 years which was consented under Planning Reg. 02/3608. Activities which will be carried out within that period will also include the clear felling of approx. 0.15ha of existing conifer plantation and the replanting of same. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the planning application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6195
11 Jun 2008Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7221
24 Jan 2008Withdrawn
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4330
19 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted shed with underground tank and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7136
11 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted tank and associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10482
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: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- CO013-032 Kiln - lime
Description
On E side of road, built against natural slope at junction of road and trackway. Early/mid-20th-century lime kiln. Random-rubble construction using local shale. Front elevation (W) has arched recess (H 1.6m; Wth 2.2m) with dressed limestone voussoirs; central lintelled recess with sloping slabs in vertical rear wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glasheenanargid.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glasheenanargid.
- 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 Glasheenanargid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glasheenanargid · Glaisín an Airgid
- Area
- 1,249,995 m² (125 ha, 308.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Clonfert East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonfert East electoral division: 355 people in 137 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Foiladaun, Glennakeel South, Taurbeg, Taurmore
- Placenames
- Glasheenanargid 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.