Glenbrohane
Glenbrohane is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Gleann Bruacháin.
- Area
- 92.9 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,680 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenbrohane, from 28 m² to 260,134 m² (26.01 ha, 64.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Glenbrohane 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
7 Aug 2019Conditional
the existing dwelling house, domestic garage and entrance as constructed with all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19778
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 Glenbrohane.
Recorded monuments
- LI049-098 Hillfort
Description
The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Overlooking the Limerick lowlands and with excellent views to the N, E and W, an oval hillslope fort with a total site footprint of approximately 1.3ha is positioned in a highly visible area just off the summit of a hilltop at the N foothills of Slievereagh Mountain. Univallate for the entire circuit with two simple entrance gaps in the E and W. No internal features recorded, although a number of small, circular features at the centre of the fort are apparent in aerial photography. These may represent hut structures. Ramparts survive well throughout the circuit. The external ditch is apparent in the W and is not visible for the remainder of the circuit. A track-way abutting the external ditch at the W also represents a townland boundary. The interior is under pasture. First map depiction in first edition Ordnance Survey mapping. More detailed earthwork survey in second edition Ordnance Survey mapping.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0916.html) Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2020
- LI049-099 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, an enclosure (LI049-275----) and a hillfort (LI049-098----) lie 80m and 220m to the NW respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 26m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a scarp, with fosse from SE-S-W-N-NE, from N-NE incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Tree-covered earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 11 October 2021
- LI049-166 Mound
Description
In a clearing within a large upland forestry plantation 760m S of the summit (1531 ft. 566m), known as the Pinnacle, on Slievereagh. Boundary mound marking the townland boundary between Ballintober, Glenarre and Glenbrohane. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated 'Mound' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 October 2021
- LI049-275 Enclosure
Description
In upland pasture 320m SE of the summit of a hill which rises to 800 ft. (243m). Doonglara Hillfort (LI049-098----) lies 115m to NW and enclosure (LI049-099----) lies 80m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam c. 22m) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenbrohane.
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 Glenbrohane, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Glenbrohane.
- 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 Glenbrohane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Glenbrohane · Gleann Bruacháin
- Area
- 929,078 m² (92.91 ha, 229.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Glenbrohane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 474 people lived in 186 households in the Glenbrohane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry, Ballintober, Ballynalacken, Cloghast, Glenaree, Knocklary
- Placenames
- Glenbrohane 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.