Glenosheen

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenosheen, from 29 m² to 551,195 m² (55.12 ha, 136.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glenosheen 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.

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  the construction of a New Single Story National Mountain Bike Trail Head Building and all associated site works, Planning permission for a new wastewater treatment system, Planning Permission for a new Playground, Planning Permission for the Demolition of an Existing Single Story Changing Rooms & Toilets Facility Building. These proposed works if so granted planning permission will replace the previously granted proposed development(Planning reference nr:19367)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221141

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  construction of a two storey split level Visitors Centre, consisting of a retail space on the lower level with a visitors information point, Café with inside and outside terrace seating on the upper level, a learning resource room on the upper level, and all associated ancillary spaces. Planning Permission is also sought for a new playground, including modifications to the existing carpark layout and provision of new external lighting. Planning Permission is also sought for the upgrade of the existing waste water treatment system, including the construction of a new bicycle wash down area and bicycle parking. Planning Permission is also sought for minor works to the main entrance, and all other associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19367

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods 002090

Recorded monuments

• LI056-032001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of Seefin Mountain (1703 ft. / 519m OD) with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. A cist burial (LI056-032002-) lies 32m to the E. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Carn Fearadhaigh’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a small circular-shaped cairn. In 1935, M.J. Bowman described the site as a ‘demolished, earth covered mound, stones protrude in places, 48’ [14.63m] N-S; 39’ [11.88m] E-W’. To the NW of cairn, a pile of stones 12’6” [3.84m] N-S; 20’ [6.09m] E-W' (NMI Field Monuments File). Poorly preserved cairn visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 November 2021

• LI056-032002 Cist
  Description

  On the summit of Seefin Mountain. A cairn (LI056-032001-) lies 32m to the W. Not marked on historic OSi maps. National Museum of Ireland Field Monuments Files described the site as a ‘polygonal cist with encrusted urn and cremated bone found in 1941’. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with side entrance porch to north elevation and single-storey extensions to rear (west) and south elevations. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof having red brick chimneystack, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with exposed roughly dressed walls in places. Square-headed openings with replacement timber casement windows to first floor, fixed timber windows to ground floor with render label mouldings above, all having painted sills. Square-headed opening with replacement timber door having pitched timber carved canopy and limestone step. Square-headed opening to side entrance having timber panelled door approached by flight of brick steps with roughly dressed side wall having rendered coping. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate and rubble-sandstone wall to front of site.

• Worker's house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one-and-half storey worker's cottage, built c. 1840, with gabled porch to front (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone walls having roughly dressed sandstone quoins. Segmental-headed openings having cast-iron windows, red brick voussoirs, limestone sills and cut limestone label-mouldings. Pointed arch opening having red brick surround and voussoirs and replacement timber panelled door. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by roughly dressed sandstone piers and boundary walls with stile.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1890, with VR insignia and crown and lettering to hood cast in relief, set in front wall of former shop.

• House, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic thatched house, built c. 1740, with windbreak to rear (west) elevation and abutting recent conservatory to rear. Hipped reed thatched roof with off centre rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows. Square-headed opening with timber and stained glass door to front (east) elevation. Square-headed opening set in windbreak to rear with replacement timber battened door. Outbuildings to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and whitewashed rubble stone walls. Rendered boundary wall and piers to front of site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

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 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 high (inferred), moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenosheen.

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.

• Glenosheen, Kilmallock5 sales

Name

Glenosheen · Gleann Oisín

Area

3,133,759 m² (313.38 ha, 774.37 acres)

Civil parish

Particles, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Particles, the unit of the census

Census 2022

222 people lived in 86 households in the Particles electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleoliver, Coolfree, Fanningstown, Glenanair East

Placenames

Glenosheen 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.