Glen North

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen North, from 1,326 m² to 383,545 m² (38.35 ha, 94.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glen North 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Planning permission to (a) construct a new dwelling house, (b) modify an existing entrance, (c) install a new bored well and (d) install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0447

• 31 Aug 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted tank unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10189

• 22 Dec 2005Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9677

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO040-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, c. 200m to N of Glen River. Circular area (29.5m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by earth and stone bank (max. int. H 1.15m; ext. H 0.85m) NNW->SE; stone-built field fence replaces bank SE->SSW; low rise elsewhere. Loose field clearance stone dumped against outer face of bank to N. Interior grass-covered and level. 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

• CO040-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep S-facing slope, above Glen River. Circular area (31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (max. int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.33m). Bank heavily overgrown; break to SE (Wth 1.7m) and SW (Wth 1.4m). 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

• CO040-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 30m ESE-WNW; c. 25m NNE-SSW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, truncated on SSW side by roadway. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 241) as levelled square fort (side c. 27yd) on Mrs. Sexton's land. 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

• CO040-086 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built against natural slope, on SW side of laneway. Random-rubble sandstone walls encase earthen core; rough buttress on S side. Front elevation (H c. 4m; Wth 4.8m) faces W, tapers slightly inwards with height; corbelled recess (H 2.66m; Wth 2.5m; D c. 2m) with sloping slabs at rear. Infilled funnel (diam. c. 2m). Two beam holes on corner of front elevation just above height of recess. 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 Glen North.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Glen North, 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 Glen North.

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.

No address of the register names Glen North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Glen North · Gleann an Chitinéaraigh Thuaidh

Area

2,185,063 m² (218.51 ha, 539.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Tincoora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

515 people lived in 181 households in the Tincoora electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoe, Glen South, Gortmore, Killavoy, Lackaneen, Lyre, Mounthillary

Placenames

Glen North 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.