Glansillagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glansillagh, from 1,806 m² to 297,467 m² (29.75 ha, 73.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glansillagh 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.

• 6 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DORMER STYLE DETACHED DWELLING AND STANDALONE GARAGE TO BE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17884

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 Glansillagh.

Recorded monuments

• KE003-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 42m N-S, 44m E-W Lissyhoneen/Lios Uí Uaithnín (ringfort of Ó hUaithnín - surname O Houneen). This site is situated in slightly undulating pastureland with a good view in all directions. To the NE lies a standing stone (KE003-020----). The univallate rath consists of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and the slight remains of an exterior fosse are to be noted to the N to W. The enclosing bank measures 2.5m externally and c.7m internally. The width of the bank at the base on average measures 6m. The fosse measures 2m in width and 1.5m below the height of the surrounding land. A 7m wide gap to the SE provides access to the interior. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. In the SW sector there are two small depressions measuring 2m x 1.6m and 1.8m x 1.6m, possibly suggesting a collapsed souterrain (KE003-019001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 184. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE003-019001 Souterrain
  Description

  KE003-019---- is situated in slightly undulating pastureland with a good view in all directions. To the NE lies a standing stone (KE003-020----). The univallate rath consists of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and the slight remains of an exterior fosse are to be noted to the N to W. In the SW sector there are two small depressions measuring 2m x 1.6m and 1.8m x 1.6m, possibly suggesting a collapsed souterrain (KE003-019001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 184. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE003-020 Standing stone
  Description

  This stone is situated in low-lying pastureland. To the SW of this site lies a ringfort (184). The stone is irregularly shaped, rising from a rectangular base to a peak and standing 1.6m high, 1.25m wide and .3m thick. A number of packing stones are visible around the base. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 13. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Glansillagh, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_273 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Glansillagh · Gleann Saileach

Area

1,277,070 m² (127.71 ha, 315.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnaughtin, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Tarmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

483 people lived in 184 households in the Tarmon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoonakilla, Cockhill, Glancullare North, Glancullare South, Gurteenavallig, Pulleen

Placenames

Glansillagh 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.