Glenacroghery
Glenacroghery is a townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gleann an Chrochaire.
- Area
- 124.7 ha
- 308 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 18,000 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenacroghery, from 211 m² to 256,820 m² (25.68 ha, 63.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Glenacroghery 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
5 Feb 2026Application withdrawn
Construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works (change of design and location from that previously permitted under planning Ref. P.I. 25 / 5278)
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0234
30 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5278
31 Mar 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic use garage, a waste-water treatment system, a new vehicular entrance to the site from a right of way access within a farm holding & all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4554
4 Nov 2021Conditional
The installation of a mobile home with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6995
25 Jul 2006Conditional
Continuation of use of existing quarry, settlement ponds, access and haul roads
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9218
13 Jun 2006Refused
Extraction and processing of sand and gravel, erection of portacabin for use as office/toilet, entrance and waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8045
19 May 2006Incompleted application
Extraction and processing of sand and gravel
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7322
15 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5839
13 Jul 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/4980
30 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7392
26 May 2003Conditional
Dormer bungalow and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2489
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 Glenacroghery.
Recorded monuments
- CO055-009 Enclosure
Description
On NE-facing slope. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, abutted to W by N-S field fence. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Glenacroghery.
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 Glenacroghery, 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 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 Glenacroghery.
- 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 Glenacroghery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glenacroghery · Gleann an Chrochaire
- Area
- 1,246,503 m² (124.65 ha, 308.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mogeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinatalloon
- Electoral division
- Kilcronat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 212 people lived in 69 households in the Kilcronat electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyanthony, Caher, Lacken, Reanduff, Sandyhill
- Placenames
- Glenacroghery 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.