Glencalry Upper

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencalry Upper, from 340 m² to 2,242,681 m² (224.27 ha, 554.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Glencalry Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Glencalry Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencalry Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Glencalry National School, school, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey single-cell national school, built 1908; opened 1909; extant 1911, on a rectangular plan. Repaired, 1949. Renovated, 1959. Closed, 1966. Now in occasional alternative use. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening approached by two lichen-spotted steps with cut-limestone lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Glencalry Upper, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Glencalry Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Glencalry Upper · Gleann Chalraí Uachtarach

Area

4,632,456 m² (463.25 ha, 1,144.7 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Beldergmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

150 people lived in 58 households in the Beldergmore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 5% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenagh, Glencalry Lower, Gortleatilla, Srahlaghy, Srahnaplaia

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Glencalry Upper 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.