Glengoura Upper

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glengoura Upper, from 2,244 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 544,833 m² (54.48 ha, 134.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Glengoura Upper 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.

• 1 Apr 2016Conditional

  Construction of a slatted shed, slatted tank, loose house/handling area, meal bin, inspection tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4730

• 7 Jun 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse and domestic stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7869

• 10 May 2006Incompleted application

  Two storey dwellinghouse and stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7052

• 28 Oct 2005Withdrawn

  Construction of straw bedded shed, cattle handling facilities and ancillary concrete yard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7957

• 10 Mar 2005Conditional

  64 bed nursing home, 33 bed apartment building including treatment rooms, common rooms, catering, laundry and sanitary accommodation, oratory, 36 no. semi-detached cottages, 48 suite convalescence centre including reception, bar and restaurant areas and associated servicing and plant areas, swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool, changing village, cafe, gymnasium and 11 treatment rooms, healing room, community hall including kitchen and sanitary accommodation and a veranda and community greenhouse and construction of 6 hole golf course. Also construction of road network, car parking, water tank and treatment plant.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1444

• 1 Mar 2005Incompleted application

  64 bed nursing home, 33 bed apartment building including treatment rooms, common rooms, catering, laundry and sanitary accommodation, oratory, 36 no. semi-detached cottages, 48 suite convalescence centre including reception, bar and restaurant areas and associated servicing and plant areas, swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool, changing village, cafe, gymnasium and 11 treatment rooms, healing room, community hall including kitchen and sanitary accommodation and a veranda and community greenhouse. Also construction of road network, car parking, water tank and treatment plant.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1193

• 15 Nov 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8443

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glengoura Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CO046-050 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Marked 'Gallaun' on 1904 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. 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

• CO046-051 Standing stone
  Description

  In forestry, below crest of hill, on N-facing slope. 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 Glengoura Upper.

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 Glengoura Upper, 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 Glengoura Upper.

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 Glengoura Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Glengoura Upper · Gleann Gabhrach Uachtarach

Area

1,320,407 m² (132.04 ha, 326.28 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Curraglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glengoura Lower, Gortnafira, Kilcronat, Kilnafurrery, Lisnabrin South, Slieveadoctor, Templevally

Placenames

Glengoura Upper 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.