Glenquin
Townland in the civil parish of Monagay, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gleann an Choim
- Area
- 71.1 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 11,420 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenquin, from 19 m² to 114,433 m² (11.44 ha, 28.28 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 Glenquin 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
17 Feb 2025Conditional
the construction of a roofed silage slab, roofed cattle handling units, roof over existing soiled yard, construction of straw bedded shed, manure pit and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2537
20 Oct 2020Conditional
and completion of works to our existing cottage to include alterations and renovations to the existing house and retention and completion of extension to the side of the dwelling, thereby completing a two bedroom dwelling, upgrade works to the effluent system, all with associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 201057
9 Jun 2020Conditional
the construction of a calf house and concrete apron
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20487
6 Apr 2020Conditional
construction of stables, tack room, foaling box, workshop, machinery shed, manure pit, polytunnel, sand ring and new entrance onto public road
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20293
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
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenquin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenquin.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Glenquin.
- 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 Glenquin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Glenquin · Gleann an Choim
- Area
- 710,851 m² (71.09 ha, 175.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monagay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Glengort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glengort electoral division: 719 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Glenquin 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.