Glassallen

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glassallen, from 59 m² to 240,490 m² (24.05 ha, 59.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 61 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  proposed demolition of 3No. existing agricultural buildings and the construction of a new agricultural building to replace that which is to be demolished. Proposed erection of 1No. above ground slurry storage tank (4500m3) with hard standing concrete apron, together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23798

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glassallen.

Recorded monuments

• ME013-021 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated just off the NE side of the spine of a NW-SE spur. A circular feature is visible on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 738, O 127) from the 1970s. This is a circular, grass-covered mound (diam. 12m N-S; 10.9m E-W; H 1.4m at W to 1.9m at E) with no distinguishing features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glassallen.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glassallen.

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.

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

Name

Glassallen

Area

1,378,567 m² (137.86 ha, 340.65 acres)

Civil parish

Collon, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Upper

Electoral division

Grangegeeth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grangegeeth electoral division: 695 people in 225 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broomfield, Hurcle, Kellystown, Mellifont, Starinagh

Placenames

Glassallen 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.