Glinsk

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glinsk, from 3 m² to 256,122 m² (25.61 ha, 63.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glinsk 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.

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  for removal of three concrete weirs in the Glinsk Heritage Park and restoration of natural river channel to pre year 2000 condition. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is included in the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561512

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  for construction of a detached dwelling house, installation of a tertiary effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 248.87 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201816

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  for construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works (dwelling) 257 sqm. (garage) 40 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18459

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  for forest access road and entrance

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17804

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 Glinsk.

Recorded monuments

• GA007-038 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 43m) cut by a number of field boundaries from SW to NNW, and from ENE to SE. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-062001 House - 17th century
  Description

  On a rise overlooking a bridging point on E bank of a small stream, probably on or close to the site of an earlier castle (GA007-062----). This well-preserved semi-fortified 17th-C house, now a Nat. Mon., was probably built by the Burke family c. 1630 (Harbison 1975, 92-3; Bence-Jones 1978, 141). Rectangular in ground plan (ENE-WSW; L 19m, Wth 10.5m), it consists of three storeys over a basement (Craig 1982, 132-3). The main doorway, at first-floor level in S wall, is set into W side of a deeply recessed centre bay. There is also a centrally placed pointed arch doorway on the ground floor in N wall: a perforation in its W jamb suggests the former presence of a yett. None of the internal floors survive but from the traces visible in the surviving plasterwork, the stairs were centrally placed. There were fireplaces on each floor in E and W gables, both of which are surmounted by clusters of five diagonally disposed chimneys. Each of the single-light ground-floor window is set into a deep embrasure with flanking musket loops. The upper floors are lit by flat-headed mullioned windows of two or three lights. There are two machicolations at parapet level on SE and SW corners and a third commands the doorway in N wall. The roof comprised two parallel gabled ridges running N-S, linked by a cross ridge. The house was enclosed by a bawn (GA007-062002-), but only a section of its W wall (L >18, Wth 1m, H 3m), and the foundations of a circular turret (D 5.7m, H 1.2m) at SE corner survive. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 73; Leask 1951, 131-2) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 439.

• GA007-062002 Bawn
  Description

  On a rise overlooking a bridging point on E bank of a small stream, probably on or close to the site of an earlier castle (GA007-062----). This well-preserved semi-fortified 17th-C house (GA007-062001-), now a Nat. Mon., was probably built by the Burke family c. 1630 (Harbison 1975, 92-3; Bence-Jones 1978, 141). Rectangular in ground plan (ENE-WSW; L 19m, Wth 10.5m), it consists of three storeys over a basement (Craig 1982, 132-3). The main doorway, at first-floor level in S wall, is set into W side of a deeply recessed centre bay. There is also a centrally placed pointed arch doorway on the ground floor in N wall: a perforation in its W jamb suggests the former presence of a yett. None of the internal floors survive but from the traces visible in the surviving plasterwork, the stairs were centrally placed. There were fireplaces on each floor in E and W gables, both of which are surmounted by clusters of five diagonally disposed chimneys. Each of the single-light ground-floor window is set into a deep embrasure with flanking musket loops. The upper floors are lit by flat-headed mullioned windows of two or three lights. There are two machicolations at parapet level on SE and SW corners and a third commands the doorway in N wall. The roof comprised two parallel gabled ridges running N-S, linked by a cross ridge. The house was enclosed by a bawn (GA007-062002-), but only a section of its W wall (L >18, Wth 1m, H 3m), and the foundations of a circular turret (D 5.7m, H 1.2m) at SE corner survive. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 73; Leask 1951, 131-2) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 20 December 2017

• GA007-062003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A fragment of an ogee-headed window visible protruding from the base of the N wall, just E of the doorway of the 17th-century house (GA007-062001-) may originally have come from the castle (GA007-062----). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 December 2017

• GA007-063001 Chapel
  Description

  Within an enclosure (GA007-063002-). Named on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Site of' suggesting that little or nothing of its fabric then remained. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-063002 Enclosure
  Description

  In a slight hollow in grassland. Rectangular enclosure NW-SE 24.5m, E-W 17m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone along S, W and N sides. A chapel (GA007-063001-) lay within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-065 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA007-066 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA007-067 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat pastureland, 300m SSW of Glinsk Castle (GA007-062001-). Aerial reconnaissance in January 1985 (ASGAP 233:46) revealed a circular univallate enclosure (D c. 25-35m) enclosed by a denuded bank, with possible traces of an external fosse at S and W. Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-135 Mound
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Telephone box, 1960–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding moulded concrete telephone box, erected c.1965, standing to front of Glinsk Post Office. Cream painted sides and door, with green to edges. Small panes to each side, door being replacement with single sheet of perspex. Set into low rendered wall.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Glinsk.

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.

No address of the register names Glinsk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Glinsk · Glinsce

Area

2,991,145 m² (299.11 ha, 739.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynakill electoral division: 434 people in 168 households; 95% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurry, Ballynakill, Cloonfaghna, Corgarve, Corrspark, Keelogesbeg, Leamore (Co. Roscommon), Sonnagh, Treanpark, Ussey

Placenames

Glinsk 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.