Glear

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glear, from 1,866 m² to 148,612 m² (14.86 ha, 36.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Glear 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 Glear 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

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

Recorded monuments

• MO012-060 Crannog
  Description

  Depicted as an island close to the SW shore of Glear Lough (OS 1834) or Bishop’s Lough (OS 1907), an oval lake (max. dims c. 440m WNW-ESE; c. 200m NNE-SSW) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is now incorporated in the tip of a promontory on the NE side of the much reduced lake when the water level is low. It is now a D-shaped or subrectangular grassy area (dims 11.8m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.7m over the water) with some trees that is attached to the shore to the NE by a marshy peninsula, but also cut by ENE-WSW drains to the N and S. Some timbers can be seen in the open water, and charcoal and burnt bone had been noted in the 1940s (SMR file). Crannog (MO012-059----) is c. 100m to the SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018

• MO012-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5-2.4m) and hedge that is reduced to a scarp SSE-WNW, with an outer fosse (Wth c. 1.5-1.8m) SW-N-E and an outer bank or field bank (ext. H 0.3-0.9m) W-NW. There is an entrance (Wth of top 4.6m) at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 28 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Glear.

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 Glear with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Glear · Gléar

Area

515,568 m² (51.56 ha, 127.4 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Clones Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clones Rural electoral division: 1,612 people in 603 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghkilly, Carney's Island, Cladowen, Killycoonagh, Tanderagee

Placenames

Glear 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.