# Glenbower, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Gleann Bodhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,576,633 m² (157.66 ha, 389.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,951 m² (2.2 ha, 5.42 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Clonin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonin electoral division: 243 people in 84 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28435 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100611 - Centre: latitude 53.016311, longitude -7.531135 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenbower, from 1,064 m² to 757,145 m² (75.71 ha, 187.09 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 264170: 757,145 m² (75.71 ha, 187.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264170.md - Parcel 243693: 156,267 m² (15.63 ha, 38.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243693.md - Parcel 240380: 128,943 m² (12.89 ha, 31.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240380.md - Parcel 261895: 76,941 m² (7.69 ha, 19.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261895.md - Parcel 237368: 66,680 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237368.md - Parcel 256422: 40,638 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256422.md - Parcel 254885: 36,385 m² (3.64 ha, 8.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254885.md - Parcel 2452152: 34,821 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2452152.md - Parcel 232454: 34,721 m² (3.47 ha, 8.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232454.md - Parcel 266156: 30,377 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266156.md - Parcel 263277: 28,077 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263277.md - Parcel 251233: 22,659 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251233.md - Parcel 5083435: 21,244 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083435.md - Parcel 4025975: 11,192 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4025975.md - Parcel 250121: 9,963 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250121.md - Parcel 230573: 6,695 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230573.md - Parcel 245863: 6,224 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245863.md - Parcel 241760: 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241760.md - Parcel 244483: 4,320 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244483.md - Parcel 228684: 4,270 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228684.md - Parcel 244922: 3,842 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244922.md - Parcel 4037096: 2,829 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4037096.md - Parcel 4025972: 1,254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4025972.md - Parcel 261476: 1,064 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261476.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Glenbower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Glenbower in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glenbower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA016-009: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-009----. Not marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A circular area (diam. c. 28.4m) defined by a scarp (H c. 1.4m) and external fosse (Wth c. 2.5m) at N. No evidence of original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenbower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenbower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/glenbower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/glenbower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/glenbower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glenbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghamore: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghamore.md - Clash: https://everytownland.com/laois/clash.md - Clonin: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonin.md - Clonincurragh: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonincurragh.md - Rossadown: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossadown.md - Roundwood: https://everytownland.com/laois/roundwood.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/glenbower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/glenbower