Glennakeel West
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Gleann an Chaoil Thiar
- Area
- 320 ha
- 791 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 15,388 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glennakeel West, from 34 m² to 281,457 m² (28.15 ha, 69.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Glennakeel West 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
9 Mar 2023Conditional
The development will consist of 1) retention of an existing cattle shed and associated slatted tank, 2) retention of an existing calf rearing shed, 3) construction of a new shed to cover an existing milking parlour and yard area
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4420
4 Jun 2021Unconditional
(a) Construction of 2no. sections of forest road (of approx.25m and 98m in length) along with associated turning circles, to facilitate clearfelling, (b) the clearfelling, fallowing and replanting of existing conifer plantation within 5no. felling coupes on a cumulative afforested area of approximately 62.62ha to prevent turbulence effects on the permitted phase 2 of Glentanemacelligot Windfarm (Planning Ref. No. 08/10245 and An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. 04.235930) and (c) all ancillary site works including drainage works, temporary compound and temporary spoil stockpile area, all on an overall site of 73.9ha. - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 14/06578 - An Bord Pleanala reference: PL04.245644
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/5575
2 Dec 2014Conditional
(a) Construction of 2no. sections of forest road (of approx.25m and 98m in length) along with associated turning circles, to facilitate clearfelling, (b) the clearfelling, fallowing and replanting of existing conifer plantation within 5no. felling coupes on a cumulative afforested area of approximately 62.62ha to prevent turbulence effects on the permitted phase 2 of Glentanemacelligot Windfarm (Planning Ref. No. 08/10245 and An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. 04.235930) and (c) all ancillary site works including drainage works, temporary compound and temporary spoil stockpile area, all on an overall site of 73.9ha.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6578
30 May 2008Conditional
Construction of one and half storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7010
9 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted cattle shed and wall to existing silage slab and retention of extension to existing cattle shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9607
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
- CO013-015 Kiln - lime
Description
On laneway. Random-rubble front wall (H 4.1m; L 4.45m), facing S, retains earthen core; arched recess (H 1.63m; Wth 1.65m; D 1.55m) with sloping slabs to rear. Funnel infilled. Ramp (L c. 25m) to rear. Second kiln (15030) c. 200m to S of similar appearance except iron bar used in 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
- CO013-016 Kiln - lime
Description
Roadside. Random-rubble front wall facing S retains earthen core; iron lintelled recess, corbelled to rear. Lime kiln (15029) c. 200m to N. 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 Glennakeel West.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glennakeel West.
- 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 Glennakeel West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glennakeel West · Gleann an Chaoil Thiar
- Area
- 3,199,924 m² (319.99 ha, 790.72 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
- Croanrea, Glennakeel North, Glennakeel South, Knockaclarig, Tooreenfineen
- Placenames
- Glennakeel West 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.