Glentrasna

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glentrasna, from 298 m² to 273,217 m² (27.32 ha, 67.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Glentrasna 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.

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  Permission for construction of a cubicle house with slatted slurry tank and dairy wash tank, 2 no. manure stores and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5016

• 18 Feb 2014Refused

  Dwellinghouse, detached garage, on-site waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 14/4294

• 25 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwelling, garage & treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7495

• 9 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/9426

• 5 Jun 2007Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8377

• 27 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of sunroom extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5451

• 29 Sept 2006Conditional

  2 no. single storey dwellings

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11017

• 9 Jun 2003Conditional

  Slurry tanks, silage slab, slatted tank, milking parlour and easy feed area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2770

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 Glentrasna.

Recorded monuments

• CO045-100 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. 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

• CO054-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope, just above steep incline; commanding view to Nagles and Corrin Hill. Circular area (28m N-S; 28m E-W) enlcosed by substantial earthen bank (H 2.4m). Gap in bank to NNE. Interior clear of vegetation; level, possibly cut into slope to E. 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

• CO054-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope, in corner of field. Circular area (28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 1m); fosse (D 0.6m). Gap in bank to SW; interior slopes towards SW. Heavily overgrown with ferns. 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

• CO054-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing on a steep W-facing slope. A ringfort is indicated here on Bateman's map (1716-1717, no. 56). Some undulations were noted in the ground but they could not be conclusively identified as the remains of a rath. 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

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having lower lean-to two-bay single-storey extension to south gable and twentieth-century multiple-bay addition to middle of rear. Slate roof to southern addition. Half-hipped thatched roof, with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Small garden to front of house, with square-profile piers having caps and decorative single-leaf cast-iron gate, and painted boundary walls with render coping. Single-storey outbuilding to north-east with loft, having pitched slate roof and coursed rubble sandstone walls, square-headed openings to gable, with dressed sandstone voussoirs, upper opening having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window, and with timber battened door to ground floor. Three-bay single-storey attached to west, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble sandstone walls, square-headed window openings, round-arched vehicular entrance with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs and corrugated-iron door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north, having pitched slate roof, rubble sandstone walls and square-headed openings. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west having pitched slate roof, rubble sandstone walls, and square-headed openings, window having timber fittings and doorway having corrugated-iron door.

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 Glentrasna, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glentrasna.

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

Name

Glentrasna · An Gleann Trasna

Area

1,154,140 m² (115.41 ha, 285.19 acres)

Civil parish

Aghern, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Aghern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

239 people lived in 84 households in the Aghern electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrafohona, Britway, Glentrasna North, Glentrasna South, Rathdrum

Placenames

Glentrasna 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.