Glenaree
Glenaree is a townland in the civil parish of Cloncurry, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 112.8 ha
- 279 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 29,980 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenaree, from 3,254 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres) to 381,521 m² (38.15 ha, 94.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Glenaree 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
23 Jul 2026N/a
RED III development will consist of a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of— (a) 5 weeks, or (b) 2 weeks, in the case of a planning application for small-scale solar energy equipment development or development that is the installation of a small-scale non-ground source heat pump, beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission. For this application the submission period is 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660846
4 Jun 2026N/a
RED III: a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660592
8 Aug 2023Conditional
of the continued use of the existing sand and gravel quarry workings (permitted under PL. Ref. 07/1560, ABP Ref. PL 09.229696) including washing, crushing and screening plant, silt lagoons, overburden storage, screening berms and site infrastructure comprising site office (including welfare facilities), store, 2 no. concrete batching plants and block yard, wheelwash, service shed, bunded fuel storage and other ancillaries. It is also proposed to continue use of a concrete batching plant and ancillaries permitted under planning permission PL. Ref. 22/533. The total area (c. 31 ha) will be subject to progressive restoration with final restoration to agricultural/amenity use. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360102
9 May 2022Conditional
sought for continuance of use of development. The development consists of retention of a concrete batching plant and all associated ancillaries within an existing sand and gravel quarry (P.A. Ref. 07/1560)
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22533
19 May 2021Conditional
to construct a bungalow dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, detached domestic garage, horse stables to accommodate 6 stables boxes, a medical room and a feed room, a horse walker, a dungsted, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21691
28 Apr 2021N/a
Planning permission to construct a bungalow dwelling, septic tank & percolation area, detached domestic garage, horse stables to accommodate 6 stables boxes, a medical room and a feed room , a horse walker, a dungstead, recessed entrance and all asssociated works
Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 21583
20 Jan 2021Conditional
for the construction of a detached domestic garage on existing sub-floor of previously approved garage under planning file 02/710 and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2153
4 May 2018Refused
The extraction of sand and gravel within a proposed extraction area (ca. 20 ha) above the water –table, processing (crushing, washing and screening) of aggregate and ancillary activities on an overall application site of ca. 30.7 hectares for a 20 year period. The proposed development will involve the extraction and progressive phased restoration of the site over its lifetime. Permission is also sought for the construction of : (1) an entrance from the L7004, (2) internal access routes, (3) passing bays on the local road bordering the Application Site to the east, (4) overburden storage and landscape screening areas/ mounds along the perimeter of the site, (5) workshop, (6) car parking, (7) bunded fuel tank, (8)refuelling hardstand and oil interceptor, (9) wheelwash, (10)weighbridge, (11) aggregate processing (crushing, washing and screening) plant and associated closed circuit silt disposal lagoons, (12)aggregate stockpile storage area, (13) security fencing, (14)shipping office, (15) site offices, canteen and welfare facilities and an (16) associated proprietary sewage effluent treatment system and percolation area. Permission is also sought for the demolition of a (17) farmhouse and associated farm buildings situated in the northern section of the Application Site. An Environmental Impact Statement (now referred to an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18530
4 Apr 2018N/a
the extraction of sand and gravel within a proposed extraction area (ca. 20ha) above the water-table, processing (crushing, washing and screening) of aggregate and ancillary activities on an overall application site of ca. 30.7 hectares for a 20 year period. The proposed development will involve the extraction and progressive phased restoration of the site over its lifetime. Permission is also sought for the construction of: (1) an entrance from the L7004, (2) internal access routes, (3) passing bays on the local road bordering the Application Site to the east, (4) overburden storage and landscape screening areas / mounds along the perimeter of the site, (5) workshop, (6) car parking, (7) bunded fuel tank, (8) refuelling hardstand and oil interceptor, (9) wheelwash, (10) weighbridge, (11) aggregate processing (crushing, washing and screening) plant and associated closed circuit silt disposal lagoons, (12) aggregate stockpile storage area, (13) security fencing, (14) shipping office, (15) site offices, canteen and welfare facilities and an (16) associated proprietary sewage effluent treatment system and percolation area. Permission is also sought for the demolition of a (17) farmhouse and associated farm buildings situated in the northern section of the Application Site. An Environmental Impact Statement (now referred to an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18362
9 Aug 2017Conditional
construction of a bungalow dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, recessed entrance and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17898
27 Jan 2017Conditional
The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenaree.
Architectural heritage
- Glenaree Bridge and 22nd Lock, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, c.1800, with ashlar voussoirs, keystone and rubble stone parapet walls. Rubble stone walls. Rubble stone parapet walls. Single round arch. Ashlar voussoirs with cut-stone keystone. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Athy Branch) with tow path to east and grass banks to canal.Canal lock, c.1800, to north-east comprising sections of rubble stone retaining walls having timber lock gates over with integral pedestrian bridge.
- Bushfield House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over part-basement house with dormer attic, c.1860, on a symmetrical plan retaining early fenestration with round-headed door opening to centre and single-bay full-height canted projecting bay to rear elevation to north-east. Extended, c.1900, comprising single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to canted projecting bay. Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roof with slate (half-octagonal to canted projecting bay; gabled to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. No rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered strips to corners and band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (round-headed to porch). Stone sills. 2/2 timber sash windows (some now missing glazing). Round-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Side lights and overlight (now missing glazing). Interior with remains of timber panelled internal shutters to openings to canted projecting bay. Set back from road perpendicular to road in own part-overgrown grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to site. Detached three-bay two-storey mass-concrete outbuilding, c.1930, to south-east. Gable-ended roof. Artificial slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Exposed mass-concrete walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Concrete sills. No fittings. Square-headed door openings (including to first floor). Metal-sheeted doors to ground floor. Timber boarded door to first floor.
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 Glenaree, about 1 in 5 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_2448 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glenaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Glenaree
- Area
- 1,128,105 m² (112.81 ha, 278.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncurry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Cloncurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 490 people lived in 148 households in the Cloncurry electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnaran, Cappanargid, Cloncurry, Drinnanstown North, Feighcullen
- Placenames
- Glenaree 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.