# Glanleam, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Valencia, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gleann Laoim.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,084,527 m² (108.45 ha, 267.99 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Valencia, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/valencia.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Valencia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 658 people lived in 264 households in the Valencia electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 53% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22430
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71412
- Centre: latitude 51.925574, longitude -10.321709 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glanleam, from 1,221 m² to 721,078 m² (72.11 ha, 178.18 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5143015: 721,078 m² (72.11 ha, 178.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5143015.md
- Parcel 1143595: 49,432 m² (4.94 ha, 12.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143595.md
- Parcel 1214015: 38,059 m² (3.81 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214015.md
- Parcel 1214007: 12,653 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214007.md
- Parcel 1214014: 6,671 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214014.md
- Parcel 1226587: 3,736 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226587.md
- Parcel 3846030: 3,158 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846030.md
- Parcel 1148276: 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148276.md
- Parcel 5200995: 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5200995.md
- Parcel 3045289: 2,709 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045289.md
- Parcel 2984046: 2,664 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2984046.md
- Parcel 2670035: 2,646 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670035.md
- Parcel 1189499: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1189499.md
- Parcel 1138256: 2,033 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138256.md
- Parcel 1160476: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160476.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Glanleam in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 14 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 2460554: Refused. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO -STOREY THREE BEDROOM, FLAT ROOFED, COURTYARD HOUSE OF +7.8M IN HEIGHT TO HIGHEST PARAPET LEVEL AND OF 475M2 IN AREA WITH A NEW RAMPED VEHICULAR ROAD ENTRANCE WITH ENTRANCE GATE, COURTYARD, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT & POLISHING FILTER, ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING, ADJUSTMENT OF SERVICES AND SUNDRY OTHER MINOR WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460554/0
- 8 Feb 2023, Kerry County Council 23117: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (I) CONSTRUCT A TWO-STOREY FLAT ROOFED HOUSE, (II) CONSTRUCT A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, (III)NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY AND (IV) INSTALLATION OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23117/0
- 1 Feb 2023, Kerry County Council 2389: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN HIS DWELLING, GARAGE AND SHEDS, AS BUILT, WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2389/0
- 26 Jan 2023, Kerry County Council 2365: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF HIS HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2365/0
- 20 Dec 2022, Kerry County Council 221331: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF HIS HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/221331/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Valencia Harbour/Portmagee Channel SAC, site code 002262, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002262
- Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA, site code 004154, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004154
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glanleam Wood, site code 001353
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia Island Cliffs, site code 001382

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE079-055001: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-055001-. Cromwell's Fort: This site is located at Fort Point, the NE end of Valencia Island, from which it commands the N entrance into Valencia Harbour. It comprises a well-preserved blockhouse at the rocky tip of the point, within which a nineteenth-century lighthouse stands, and is defended by an earthen bank and fosse of bastioned outline on its landward side. Like KE087-034----, this fortification was probably built in 1653. It is referred to as 'Fort Fleetwood' in the Ormond MSS. After its disestablishment in 1669 most of its ordnance was shipped to other Munster forts, though the Ormond MSS record that four guns remained buried at the site in 1684 (Pochin Mould 1978, 50). Pococke noted two cannon here in 1758 (Ó Maidin 1959, 39), and these are now located in the lighthouse enclosure. The blockhouse is a strong masonry enclosure of apsidal plan. Its walls average 2m thick. Eight gun-embrasures survive, with three in each of the seaward facets. Each has a wide external splay. Incorporated into the main structure of the blockhouse on its landward side are two buildings. The NW building contains a small vaulted room which probably served as a magazine. The SE building contains two gunports, now serving as windows, both of which have a slight splay towards the interior. The SW wall of the blockhouse follows an almost demi-bastion shaped outline. A small window in the W flank of its gateway may have been so placed to provide musketry defence (Gowen 1979, 272-6). On the landward approach to the blockhouse, and situated about 200m from it, is a defence comprising a bank and external fosse of bastioned outline. The bank appears to have originally had four bastions, three of which seem to have been demi-bastions with a complete bastion in the centre, at S. Only the latter and traces of two of the former survive. The external fosse runs to a modern masonry wall which, for most of its length, appears to delimit its outer edge. The bank and fosse survive best at E. The bank is flat-topped and fairly steep-sided, and survives to an average height of 1.2m. It measures 4.5m in average basal width. The external fosse averages 4m wide. The complete bastion is approximately lozenge-shaped in internal plan; 9.3m x 9.9m. The former existence of two demi-bastions to the W and NW of this is suggested by the angular outline of the nineteenth-century enclosing wall at these points. A third demi-bastion, to the NE of the complete bastion, is poorly preserved though its outline is indicated on the OS maps. Apart from a standing stone there are no apparent internal features to this site. The standing stone (KE079-055002-) is of approximately rectangular elevation and stands 3.43m in maximum height. It is roughly trapezoidal in plan at base, measuring 1.43m x .34m; NE-SW. It averages .4m thick. A number of packing stones are visible around its base, and a slab, 1.5m long, leans against its SE face. At present the monument is upright, though Chatterton noted that it was then 'very easily shaken' (1839, 265), an observation which may explain the presence of the supporting slab. Monument described by Casey (2003, 28) as 'A defended promontory occupied in the 17th century and built at the same time as the nearby fort [KE087-034----] on the far side of Valencia. The lowlying north-facing headland, now with lighthouse and enclosure, was defended by a diamond-shaped bastion flanked by two demi-bastions. These were earth with external fosse and a wall outside. Later field boundaries can be seen outside the complex. Save for a possible rock-cut fosse between the defences and the lighthouse, there is nothing to suggest earlier defence of the headland'. According to Westropp; 'The name Cromwell as in eastern Limerick and elsewhere, may have originally referred to a "sloping wood," Crom-choill, as the map made by Baptist Boazio, in the reign of Elizabeth, about 1590, marks "Cromcoel," near the fort' (Westropp 1912, 305-6). See attached plan of fortification and blockhouse taken from O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, Figs. 249, 250, 422-3. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 29 March 2022
- KE079-055002: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-055002-. In SE quadrant of Cromwell's Fort (KE079-055001-). The standing stone (KE079-055002-) is of approximately rectangular elevation and stands 3.43m in maximum height. It is roughly trapezoidal in plan at base, measuring 1.43m x 0.34m; NE-SW. It averages 0.4m thick. A number of packing stones are visible around its base, and a slab, 1.5m long, leans against its SE face. At present the monument is upright, though Chatterton noted that it was then 'very easily shaken' (1839, 265), an observation which may explain the presence of the supporting slab. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
- KE079-058002: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-058002-. Toberfinnan/Tobar Fhionáin: This well is situated on the lower E slopes of Feaghmaan mountain, Valencia Island, adjacent to a ceallúnach burial ground (KE079-109----). Rectangular in form, it is lined by slate slabs. Two modern slate slabs stand over the well, one with a human figure and Tobar Fionnáin carved on its face. Both the well and the ceallúnach were formerly visited on the 16th of March, and the well's water reputedly cured rheumatism (OSL; Delap 1911, 403). This dedicated St Finan is believed to be 'St. Finan Cam' (Anon. 1911, 378). In 1938 the following folklore was collected from Baile and Ridire or Knightstown School; 'Several years ago the Knight of Kerry did not like to see people going visiting St. Finian's well; and he ordered his men to close up the well. The Knight's steward, who was a protestant, and did not believe in holy wells, ordered the workmen to plough the field near the well. The Knight's daughter, who was in England, got sick. While she was sick, she dreamt that she would get better if her father allowed people to visit the holy well. She wrote to her father and he ordered a wall to be built around the well. and he allowed people to visit the well again. The steward got sick also but when the well was opened again he got better' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0479, Page 067; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742142/4740193). See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1069. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 March 2022
- KE079-059: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-059----. Cross described in 1996 as follows; 'This cross is located towards the NE end of Glanleam Woods, Valencia Island. It is situated close to a disused trackway and its lower shaft is incorporated into a well-built stone wall. The cross inclines markedly to E and its visible portion stands 1.1m high. Its shaft is 0.26m wide and the width across the arms is 0.71m. It is locally reputed to commemorate a Spaniard of royal blood who drowned in Valencia Harbour during the Armada campaign' (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 277-8, no. 947). See attached drawing taken from O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, Fig. 177, 277. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
- KE079-108: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-108----. Not marked on the OS maps, this poorly preserved enclosure is located in rough, rocky pasture that slopesdown to Fort Point, Valencia Island. Its gapped enclosing element defines a subcircular area measuring 30m N-S x 35m E-W. The overgrown drystone wall survives to a maximum external height of 1.2m at E and has an average basal width of 2.3m. A number of walls converge at SW. Mitchell records the rectangular foundations of a hut (KE079-108001-) a second circular enclosure (KE079-108002-) and a small walled area at the location (1989, 28). Dense vegetation prevented positive identification of these features. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 751. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE079-108001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-108001-. Not marked on the OS maps, this poorly preserved enclosure is located in rough, rocky pasture that slopesdown to Fort Point, Valencia Island. Its gapped enclosing element defines a subcircular area measuring 30m N-S x 35m E-W. The overgrown drystone wall survives to a maximum external height of 1.2m at E and has an average basal width of 2.3m. A number of walls converge at SW. Dense vegetation prevented positive identification of these features. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 751. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE079-108002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-108002-. Mitchell records a second circular enclosure (KE079-108002-). Dense vegetation prevented positive identification of these features. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 751. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE079-109: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE079-109----. Situated on the E slopes of Feaghmaan mountain, Valencia Island, and overlooking Valencia Harbour to E, this site consists of a subcircular area enclosed by a modern stone wall. The interior is heavily overgrown, making detailed inspection impossible. It has an estimated E-W diameter of 40m, and a number of upright slabs and quartz stones are visible in it. Sections of a poorly preserved wall, possibly the original enclosing element, can be identifed towards its E end. A holy well (KE079-058002-) is located a short distance to N. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1014. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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)

- Glanleam House, mill (water), 1760–1790, Regional interest, registry number 21307904, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE&regno=21307904. Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey over basement Georgian house, built c. 1775, originally square-plan and built as a linen factory. Comprising two-bay two-storey projecting block with single-storey canted bay window to right ground floor and single-bay two-storey recessed end bay to south. Renovated and extended to north, built c. 1820, comprising two-bay two-storey recessed entrance block with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting entrance bay to left ground floor and four-bay side elevation. Renovated and extended to rear to west, c. 1910, comprising pair of single-bay two-storey flat-roofed returns with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to entrance bay. Pitched and hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with carved slate inset panel. Slate sills and window cases on two facades. Replacement uPVC windows. Doorway with segmental pedimented canopy and flanked by arched opening. Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1820, to north comprising three-bay single-storey recessed central block with three-bay single-storey lean-to glazed veranda to front and single-bay single-storey projecting flanking end bays. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1820, to north retaining original fenestration. Walled garden, built c. 1820, to north. Pet cemetery to site with group of cut-stone grave markers, c. 1900. Gateway, built c. 1820, to south-west comprising pair of render piers with cast-iron gates.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: the EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Glanleam.
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glanleam.
- 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/kerry/glanleam.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glanleam.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glanleam.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Glanleam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyhearny East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyhearny-east.md
- Ballyhearny West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyhearny-west.md
- Ballymanagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymanagh.md
- Farranreagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranreagh.md
- Gortgower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortgower.md
- Kilbeg East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilbeg-east.md
- Kilbeg West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilbeg-west.md
- Laharan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/laharan-72047.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.

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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.

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