Glanowen
Glanowen is a townland in the civil parish of Ballincuslane, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Gleann Eoghain.
- Area
- 693.8 ha
- 1,714 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 15,364 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glanowen, from 69 m² to 2,860,661 m² (286.07 ha, 706.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glanowen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Sept 2025Refused
(1) renovate existing derelict two story dwelling house which includes (2) raise eaves and ridge level, (3) replace roof, (4) alterations to elevations, (5) construct an extension to the side of the existing dwelling house,(6)demolish porch (7) install temporary caravan on site, (9) install a new waste water treatment system (8) All associated site works at Glanowen, Cordal,Co. Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560791
29 May 2024Conditional
(01) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED CATTLE SHED FOR OVER WINTERING CATTLE COMPLETE WITH CUBICLES BEDS AND UNDER GROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS, (02) CONSTRUCT A CONCRETE SILAGE BASE WITH ASSOCIATED WORK APRON, ALL COMPLETE WITH AN UNDERGROUND CONRETE SILAGE EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 24216
3 Jun 2022Conditional
DEVELOP A 30M HIGH PERMANENT LATTICE ANEMOMETER (WIND MEASUREMENT) MAST, TEMPORARY ASSEMBLY AREA, USE OF CONSENTED ACCESS TRACKS (APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 10/692) AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED WORKS ARE OUTLINED ON THE PLANNING APPLATION DRAWING. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION OR PURCHASE (SECTION 239 OF PLANING AND DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) (NO 3) REGULATIONS 2011 REFERS)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22583
27 Apr 2022N/a
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A 30M HIGH PERMANENT LATTICE ANEMOMETER (WIND MEASUREMENT) MAST, TEMPORARY ASSEMBLY AREA, USE OF CONSENTED ACCESS TRACKS (APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 10/692) AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22441
22 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW DWELLING SERVICED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (B) A VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE, (C) A DOMESTIC GARAGE, (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21671
27 Jan 2021N/a
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METEROLOGICAL MAST ON A SITE AT GLANOWEN, CORDAL, CO KERRY. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF AN 83.5M HIGH PERMANENT LATTICE ANEMOMETER (WIND MEASUREMENT) MAST, TEMPORARY ASSEMBLY AREA, USE OF CONSENTED ACCESS TRACKS (APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 10/692) AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2157
29 Jun 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND OUTBUILDINGS. CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20562
27 Feb 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20185
14 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19499
27 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19315
5 Jul 2017Conditional
(1) DEMOLISH EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY, (2) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY, COMPLETE WITH CATTLE HOLDING AREA AND CATTLE HANDLING FACILITY SUCH AS CRUSH, (3) CONSTRUCT AN EASY FEED SLATTED HOUSE FOR OVER WINTERING COWS, COMPLETE WITH CUBICLES BEDS AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS, (4) CONSTRUCT A CONCRETE SILAGE BASE WITH PERIMETER WALLS, INCLUDING CONCRETE APRON ALL COMPLETE WITH STAND ALONE UNDER GROUND CONCRETE SILAGE EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND (5) CONSTRUCT A FARM FEED STORE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17643
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
- Natural Heritage Area: Mount Eagle Bogs NHA 002449
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glanowen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glanowen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Glanowen, about 1 in 20 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 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 Glanowen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glanowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Glanowen · Gleann Eoghain
- Area
- 6,938,142 m² (693.81 ha, 1,714.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballincuslane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Cordal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 279 people lived in 109 households in the Cordal electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coom, Cordal East, Glanawaddra, Kilquane, Knockauncurragh, Knockdown, Muinganine (Co. Cork)
- Placenames
- Glanowen 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.