Glenbevan
Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Gleann
- Area
- 70.3 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 4,709 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenbevan, from 1,062 m² to 266,591 m² (26.66 ha, 65.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glenbevan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Glenbevan 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.
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 Glenbevan.
Recorded monuments
- LI031-083 Ringfort - rath
Description
In flat pasture, 15m NE of disused railway and 120m W of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Ballyculleen. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank with external fosse. The National Museum of Ireland Topographical files recorded the discovery of a ‘burial [LI031-228----] of extended skeleton in a ringfort known as Kyle in the 1940’s’ (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 456). Monument visible as circular-shaped enclosure overgrown with trees on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 March 2021
- LI031-228 Burial
Description
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, . Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 August 2012
Architectural heritage
- Glen Bevan, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1820, with projecting single-storey pedimented porch. Four-bay two-storey over basement side elevations and attached three-bay two-storey portion, dating to the late eighteenth century, with attached two-storey wing and water tower built c. 1870. Hipped slate roof with stone chimneystacks. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows. Two-round headed window openings to rear. Walled garden adjacent with archway. Single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1820. Rendered walls. Square-profile rusticated rendered piers to site with decorative caps and double-leaf cast-iron gate. Rubble stone boundary walls. House situated with garden terraces overlooking the River Maigue.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenbevan.
- 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. 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 Glenbevan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Glenbevan · An Gleann
- Area
- 703,069 m² (70.31 ha, 173.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Ballynabanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynabanoge electoral division: 330 people in 114 households; 82% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyculleen, Ballymacrory, Inchinclare, Rosstemple, Tullovin
- Placenames
- Glenbevan 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.