Glenmore
Glenmore is a townland in the civil parish of Jerpointchurch, barony of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An Gleann Mór.
- Area
- 65.2 ha
- 161 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 5,286 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenmore, from 89 m² to 361,835 m² (36.18 ha, 89.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Glenmore 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
30 May 2023Conditional
for development, as follows: 1. Permission for alterations to site boundaries to improve sightlines at junction to L4206, and to widen section of minor road L42062, as previously permitted under planning permission ref. 08/443. 2. Permission for new porch to side entrance of dwelling; 3. Retention permission for alterations to dwelling and outbuildings as built, as differing from previous planning permission ref. 00/496; 4. Retention permission for driveway entrance walls & gates as built
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360224
10 Jun 2022N/a
to retain the minor amendments to the house as built including the set back entrance and to construct a new porch extension to the side of the house. This is further to permission Reg. Ref. 00/496 and 08/443
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22375
30 Sept 2020Conditional
for a new single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system, new site entrance, plus all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20646
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glenmore.
Recorded monuments
- KK028-108 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached imagery: KK028-108----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenmore.
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 Glenmore, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenmore.
- 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 Glenmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Glenmore · An Gleann Mór
- Area
- 651,622 m² (65.16 ha, 161.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Jerpointchurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Electoral division
- Stonyford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 721 people lived in 227 households in the Stonyford electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamona, Danesrath, Floodhall or Rathtooterny, Oldtown
- Placenames
- Glenmore 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.