Glenboy

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenboy, from 148 m² to 210,261 m² (21.03 ha, 51.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glenboy 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.

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  (a) retain a detached domestic storage shed, (b) retain two new window openings and exterior timber cladding to dwelling house

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560212

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  construct a dwelling house with effluent treatment system & polishing filter along with all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460027

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  the Construction of a slatted sheep shed, roofed manure pit and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, gates, fences, walls, and new farmyard access road and road entrance - all for agricultural purposes only) in new farmyard area

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360009

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  change of house design with an overall decrease in floor area which differs to that approved under P. 19/24 and all associated works approved under P.19/24

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22185

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house with approved effluent treatment system and percolation area in accordance with current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1924

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  for development which will consist of the building of a 72 sqm shed with a gravel drive connecting it to the existing lane/entrance to our house, along with all ancillary works. The shed shall be built for the purpose of the secure storage of agricultural equipment and general tools. The shed shall be built from rendered block walls with a corrugated metal roof

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1725

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 Glenboy.

Recorded monuments

• LE012-017 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a knoll in an area of marshy grassland and scrub towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of the Tullyskeherny plateau. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (diam. 47m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by traces of a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.2m), and it is largely overgrown with scrub in the SE part. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE012-020 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1835 and 1910 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is located on a flat-topped knoll of rock outcrop in pasture. It is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Hollymount, outbuilding, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1730, with ruin of former country house to east. Built on a U-plan with the north range demolished. Hipped slate roof. Random coursed walls with tooled limestone quoins. Stone surrounds to window openings with some louvers surviving. Raised sandstone dressing to carriage arch opening. Cantilevered stone stairs to first floor. Outbuildings within enclosed rear courtyard accessed through wrought-iron gates. Ruin of detached five-bay former country house has random coursed stone walls with red brick dressing to openings and Ionic pilaster to front elevation. Wrought-iron gates flanked by stone piers to front of site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0.

• Glenboy, Manorhamilton5 sales

Name

Glenboy · Gleann Buí

Area

2,518,052 m² (251.81 ha, 622.22 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Glenboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenboy electoral division: 237 people in 90 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghlacon, Gortnalibbert, Moneenshinnagh, Munnagashel, Tullyskeherny

Placenames

Glenboy 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.