Glasvally
Glasvally is a townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Glasbhaile.
- Area
- 59.1 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 4,349 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glasvally, from 35 m² to 38,495 m² (3.85 ha, 9.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Glasvally 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
9 Jul 2024Conditional
The development shall consist of side and front extension to existing ground floor layout, conversion and extension of existing first floor attic to accommodation, alterations to existing elevations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460428
15 Apr 2021Conditional
1. Retention of (a) the front elevation of existing dwelling house (b) the location of existing septic tank and percolation area on site (c) the location of existing domestic garage on site; 2. A revised site layout plan showing existing development 'as constructed' on proposed new site boundaries and entrance layout (previous planning ref. no. P 03/2859)
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21351
24 Nov 2020Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE FACILITIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20911
2 Sept 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE WITH ATTIC STORAGE FACILITIES, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, EXISTING ENTRANCE/EXIT GATE AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES FROM THE PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATION P05/2895
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19682
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 Area of Conservation: Cloughmoyne SAC 000479
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloughmoyne 000479
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glasvally.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1894. Reroofed, 2005. Pitched roof with replacement reed thatch, exposed steel lattice stretchers to ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having stepped capping, and concrete coping to gables. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls; cement rendered surface finish to rear (south-east) elevation with rusticated rendered piers to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows with one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (south-east) elevation. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround centred on keystone, opposing loft ladder with timber "match stick" balusters terminating in timber newel, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; bedroom (north-east) with timber boarded vaulted ceiling; and timber boarded splayed reveals or shutters to window openings to remainder. Set in own grounds with limewashed piers to "cottage garden" having ivy-covered capping.
- House, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1838, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated. For sale, 2012. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement reed or rye straw thatch, exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered, ruled and lined dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed kneelers. Replacement rendered battered walls with rendered quoins to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, timber boarded opposing doors, and timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having capping supporting looped flat iron 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Glasvally, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glasvally.
- 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 Glasvally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Glasvally · An Glasbhaile
- Area
- 590,863 m² (59.09 ha, 146.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Shrule, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,211 people lived in 419 households in the Shrule electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballisnahyny, Ballycurrin Demesne, Gortatober, Mounthenry
- Placenames
- Glasvally 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.