# Glassamucky Mountain, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tallaght, barony of Uppercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Sliabh Ghlaise na Muice. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 708,511 m² (70.85 ha, 175.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 HA-DM, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tallaght, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/tallaght.md - Barony: Uppercross - Electoral division: Bohernabreena, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Bohernabreena electoral division: 5,672 people in 1,740 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17440 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260405 - Centre: latitude 53.225682, longitude -6.313204 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glassamucky Mountain; 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Glassamucky Mountain in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC, site code 002122, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002122 - Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA, site code 004040, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004040 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU025-038: Cross-inscribed stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU025-038----. Situated to the E of the R115 and a small gravel pit on Glassmucky Mountain. A roadside granite boulder set on its long axis (dims. L 1.10m, Wth 0.62m, N-S, H 0.42m) with a cross inscribed on its exposed face. This cross has expanded terminals (H 0.40m, Wth 0.35m, Healy 1961, 125, Price 1959, 165). There is a local tradition that it marks the spot where the body of a chimney sweep was found who had been caught in a snowstorm and had frozen to death. It is known as 'Sweep's Cross' (Swords, K. ed.2009, 109). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Uploaded on: 28 July 2018 - DU025-039: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU025-039----. Situated on the SE slope of Glassamucky Mountain. This is a large earthfast boulder marking the corner of a townland and county boundary (dims. L 3.2m; Wth 1.65m). There are two hollows in the SE end of the boulder (Dims. Of hollows L 0.55m; Wth 0.43m; 0.1m; D. 0.50; Wth 0.35m, respectively). There is another circular hollow on the N face (diam. 0.4m; D 0.14m). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Uploaded on: 28 July 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Monument, 1750–1810, Regional interest, registry number 11226001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SC®no=11226001. Isolated cross inscribed stone, c.1780. Simple Latin cross carved into the sloping south-west face of a boulder. Arm width approximately 30 cm. Set in a small quarry beside the military road on the open moor. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Glassamucky Mountain. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/dublin/glassamucky-mountain.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/glassamucky-mountain.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/glassamucky-mountain.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glassamucky Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Glassamucky Brakes: https://everytownland.com/dublin/glassamucky-brakes.md - Killakee: https://everytownland.com/dublin/killakee.md - Mountpelier: https://everytownland.com/dublin/mountpelier.md - Powerscourt Mountain (Co. Wicklow): https://everytownland.com/wicklow/powerscourt-mountain.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/glassamucky-mountain - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/glassamucky-mountain