Glenstal

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenstal, from 16 m² to 246,216 m² (24.62 ha, 60.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Glenstal 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 Jan 2026Conditional

  a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 20/1401

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267009

• 25 Oct 2024Conditional

  the demolition of a porch to the front of house and a flat roofed extension to the rear, also to construct a two storey extension to the side of the house and a single storey extension to the rear of house including a new effluent treatment system

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24417

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  (a) domestic garage as constructed, (b) re-location of their garage within their site, (c) the installation of 1 extra window in the master bedroom of their dwelling, and re-location of 1 window in the eastern elevation of their dwelling, (d) the alteration of the site levels and finished floor levels of their dwelling and garage and (e) the relocation of their wastewater treatment system, and to apply for PERMISSION to alter the location of their permitted vehicular entrance and driveway to their site from that permitted under planning permission reference 16/1047

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22473

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201401

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a dormer type extension to rear of existing dwelling, which is a protected structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20523

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
• Natural Heritage Area: Grageen Fen And Bog NHA 002186

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenstal.

Architectural heritage

• Glenstal Farm, farmyard complex, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c. 1820. Porch to front (west) elevation and single-storey extension to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate under corrugated-iron roof. Corrugated-iron clad chimneystacks. Rough-cast rendered walls. Square-headed tripartite openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having concrete sills. Square-headed opening to dormer attic having timber casement windows. Round-headed opening having spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to porch having half-glazed timber battened double doors. Pair of square-profile sandstone piers to west having carved caps. Range of substantial outbuildings to rear, c. 1850, comprising seven-bay two-storey main block, having four-bay outbuilding to north gable, two-bay single-storey outbuilding with brick open-work bellcote to west elevation and three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south gable. Pitched slate roofs with corrugated-iron to north outbuilding. Rubble limestone and sandstone masonry walls. Elliptical-headed openings to main block, ground floor having dressed voussoirs and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to main block first floor having timber louvered fittings. Elliptical-headed opening to main block having dressed limestone voussoirs and glazed overlight over timber battened door. Elliptical-headed openings to north outbuilding with fixed windows. Elliptical-headed openings having timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed openings to west outbuilding with multiple-pane fixed window and dressed sandstone voussoirs. Elliptical-headed openings having timber battened doors and dressed sandstone voussoirs. Square-headed openings to south outbuilding first floor with brick surrounds, timber fittings and limestone sills. Elliptical-headed carriage arches having brick voussoirs. Elliptical-headed window opening to ground floor with brick surround and limestone sill. Rubble sandstone and limestone wall to west.

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

At the centre of the townland of Glenstal, 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 Glenstal.

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.

No address of the register names Glenstal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Glenstal · Gleann Stáil

Area

4,090,883 m² (409.09 ha, 1,010.88 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Glenstal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,240 people lived in 383 households in the Glenstal electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garranbane, Gleno, Meentolla, Moher, Mongfune, Portnard, Toorlougher

Placenames

Glenstal 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.