Glinch

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glinch, from 1,804 m² to 182,897 m² (18.29 ha, 45.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Glinch 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  permission for development consisting of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone (not exceeding 25,000 tonnes) in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660387

• 9 Sept 2026N/a

  permission for the development works will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone ( not exceeding 25,000 tonnes) in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site development works under an Article 27 declaration

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660377

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 Glinch.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just S of the summit of a fairly low drumlin. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 37.5m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp (at W: H 1.6m; at N: H 0.9m) with a hedge at its base NE-SSW, and slight indications of an outer fosse at N. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 8 May 2018

Architectural heritage

• Glinch House, country house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1850, with four-bay west elevation continued by slightly recessed two-bay two-storey over basement return, gables to each end of rear elevation flanking hipped middle bay, and with one-bay single-storey over basement addition to east elevation. Return continued by slightly lower three-bay two-storey outbuilding. Pedimented portico entrance to front elevation. Natural slate roof, hipped and having paired timber brackets to front and side elevations, and pitched to rear end bays flanking hipped middle bay. Pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks to mid-ridge of front part, each with rendered string course and coping and octagonal pots, single chimneystacks to middle of ridge of western part, to side of eastern, and to gable end of rear return. Replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front block, with moulded string course between basement and ground floor. Exposed rubble stone walls to rear and to return, with brick surrounds to openings. Round-headed window openings to middle stairs bay of rear, and square-headed elsewhere, front elevation having tripartite opening over portico and ground floor openings set within segmental-headed recesses, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane with fanlights to stairs bay, six-over-six pane to front and side elevations and return, and nine-over-six pane to ground floor of eastern bays of rear elevation. Stone sills throughout. Decorative stained-glass windows to side walls of portico. Portico is di-style in antis with simple columns with bases and moulded capitals supporting plain entablature fronting recessed square-headed doorway with timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with geometrically glazed stained glass. Yard of two-storey outbuildings to rear of house. Outbuilding attached to rear of house has sprocketed hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls, oculus openings to first floor and square and camber-arch door and window openings to ground floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window, and timber battened and timber panelled doors, with red brick surrounds. Four-bay two-storey barn to north-east of house, having pitched slate roof, rendered gable copings, cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with stone lintels, jambs and sills. Square-headed door opening with stone lintel and block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber door. Modern concrete-built barns, with little original fabric extant to north of house. Remnants of small walled garden to west of house. Recent wrought-iron railings. Ha-ha to walled garden to front of house. House approached via long entrance from main road, with quadrant gateway comprising panelled rendered square-plan piers with plinths and moulded copings, with decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate, similar railings on rendered plinths, vehicular gate now missing. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge opposite entrance, having steep hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack, rendered walls and square-headed openings now boarded up.

• Bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road over railway bridge, built c.1850. Roughly dressed blocks to spandrels built to courses with neat pointing, cut-stone string course to impost level, elliptical arch with rock-faced voussoirs and roughly dressed soffit, and low parapets each with rock-faced coping and similar string course to base of external side. Piers to ends of elevations project from face of bridge.

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 Glinch, about 1 in 20 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 Glinch.

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

Name

Glinch · Glinsce

Area

467,847 m² (46.78 ha, 115.61 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killeevan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cormoy, Drumacoon, Drumbaragh, Drumguff, Drumshannon, Guardhill, Lisdarragh

Placenames

Glinch 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.