Glenbaun
Glenbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmoylan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Gleann Bán.
- Area
- 575.7 ha
- 1,423 acres
- Land parcels
- 103
- registered freehold, median 14,323 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenbaun, from 33 m² to 520,459 m² (52.05 ha, 128.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Glenbaun 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
27 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the existing dwelling to serve as a self-contained granny flat, upgrade of the existing waste water treatment system connection to necessary services and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360617
26 May 2022Conditional
a slatted unit and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22591
19 Oct 2020Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing house, installation of a mechanical aeration wastewater treatment unit, stratified sand polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201046
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
- Natural Heritage Area: Carrigkerry Bogs NHA 002399
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenbaun.
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 Glenbaun, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenbaun.
- 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 Glenbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Glenbaun · An Gleann Bán
- Area
- 5,756,698 m² (575.67 ha, 1,422.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoylan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Kilmoylan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 164 households in the Kilmoylan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bauraneag, Cloonlahard East, Cloonlahard West, Knockaclugga, Knockdown, Knockfinnisk, Moyreen, Tooreendonnell
- Placenames
- Glenbaun 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.