Glengrant

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glengrant, from 20 m² to 45,322 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glengrant 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Glengrant in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glengrant.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1800, with lean-to entrance windbreak. Renovated, post-1994, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bay added to left. Hipped roof (continuing over lean-to slate roof to windbreak having iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves) with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Flat bitumen felt roof to projecting bay with timber eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls over random rubble stone construction having sections of mud wall construction with slight batter, rendered piers to ends, and rendered walls to projecting bay. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows (concrete sill to projecting bay having timber casement window). Square-headed door opening with step, and timber boarded door. Set in own grounds.

• Farmyard complex, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1800, including: (i) Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic with entrance windbreak. Now disused. Hipped roof on timber construction with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack having stringcourse. Painted (limewashed) lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction possibly having sections of mud wall construction incorporating slight batter. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed lintels, and one-over-one timber sash windows having one four-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. Set back from line of road in own grounds. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with fittings not visible. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed slit-style window opening with no sill, concealed dressings, and fitting not discernible. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded half-door. (iv) Detached two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window opening with no sill, concealed dressings, and timber window. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded half-door. (v) Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic with lean-to entrance windbreak. Now disused. Hipped roof on timber construction with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and no chimney stack. Painted (limewashed) lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction possibly having sections of mud wall construction incorporating slight batter. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings having iron bars. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded door.

• Farmyard complex, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1800, including: (i) Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic with entrance windbreak, and three-bay single-storey rear (north-west) elevation. Hipped roof (continuing over windbreak) with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stack. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction possibly having sections of mud wall construction incorporating slight batter. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with step, and timber boarded door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with rear (north-west) elevation fronting on to road. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding perpendicular to south with square-headed carriageway to left, and two-bay single-storey rear (south-west) elevation. Pitched and hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors. Square-headed carriageway to left with timber lintel, and no fittings. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding perpendicular to south. Pitched and hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors having one timber boarded half-door.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1900, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with moulded necking supporting cylindrical head having spout, curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and domed capping on moulded stringcourse. Set back from line of road on grass verge.

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 Glengrant, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glengrant.

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 Glengrant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Glengrant · Gleann an Ghróntaigh

Area

294,291 m² (29.43 ha, 72.72 acres)

Civil parish

Portnascully, and its townlands

Barony

Iverk

Electoral division

Portnascully, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,137 people lived in 388 households in the Portnascully electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Licketstown, Moonveen

Placenames

Glengrant 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.