Glinsk
Townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Glinsce
- Area
- 195.4 ha
- 483 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 20,998 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glinsk, from 101 m² to 320,482 m² (32.05 ha, 79.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Glinsk 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
10 Apr 2026Conditional
Planning permission to construct Agricultural Slatted Shed and Silage Slab along with all necessary site works and ancillaries.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660283
24 Oct 2025Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system and percolation area together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25444
7 Jun 2019Conditional
CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION ALONG WITH EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19439
19 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19110
15 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, SHEEP HANDLING FACILITIES, AGRICULTURAL DRY SHED AND SILAGE SLAB ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17750
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glinsk.
Recorded monuments
- MA097-007 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glinsk.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glinsk.
- 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 Glinsk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Glinsk · Glinsce
- Area
- 1,953,772 m² (195.38 ha, 482.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Slievemahanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Slievemahanagh electoral division: 525 people in 168 households; 88% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boheh, Carrowmore, Carrowrevagh, Lanmore, Letterbrock, Liscarney, Owenwee
- Placenames
- Glinsk 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.