Glinsk

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glinsk, from 107 m² to 3,058,356 m² (305.84 ha, 755.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  of a single storey rear extension, 2 storey rear extension and 6 no. rooflights. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 36.50 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560836

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  for (1) minor elevational changes to additional windows to existing house (2) removal of enurement clause

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360443

• 8 Nov 2021Refused

  for demolition/removal of a mobile home, provision of a bungalow residential dwelling (with attic level accommodation), to utilize existing services, and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 183 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 40 sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212078

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  for retention of existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries and retention of existing garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 276.47 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211757

• 15 Apr 2021Refused

  of alterations to existing holiday cottage as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 141.51 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21607

• 21 Jan 2021Refused

  for retention of existing dwelling house as well as all associated site works and permission for change of use from holiday accommodation to permanent residential accommodation. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 141.51 msq.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2144

• 5 Nov 2020N/a

  of existing dwelling house as well as all associated site works and permission for change of use from holiday accommodation to permanent residential accommodation house. Gross floor space of work to be retained; 141.51sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201638

• 30 Jul 2020N/a

  for retention of existing dwelling house as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 141.51 msq

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201046

• 23 Oct 2017Conditional

  to (1) construct a new bay window to the side elevation of the existing dwelling house (2) remove the enurement clause. Gross floor space of proposed works 1.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171528

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  of alterations made to existing dwelling house, previously granted under Pl. Ref. No. 982627 and to retain domestic garage. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 78sqm & garage 49sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17652

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA063-003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On foreshore and E bank of a small stream which marks the td. boundary. All that remains is a small unenclosed irregular area (c. 4m by c. 2m) within which some small set stones are visible, but scarcely distinguishable, on the stony shore. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA064-002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On N side of Cnoc Buí. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small cavity, in which rain-water lodges, on a slanting outcrop of smooth rock. The opening is usually covered by a small flat stone and the well is delimited by a low horseshoe-shaped drystone wall (1.6m by c. 1.5m) opening to S. A small flagstone projecting from the wall above the well carries a few modern offerings. (Robinson 1985, 19-20) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glinsk.

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 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; parts are water.

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

4,702,842 m² (470.28 ha, 1,162.1 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Knockboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockboy electoral division: 875 people in 319 households; 81% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callancruck, Knockboy, Letterard, Moyrus

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.