Glaster

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glaster, from 124 m² to 304,224 m² (30.42 ha, 75.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Glaster 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.

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES THERETO

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20620

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  (A) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1951

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  SLATTED HOUSE AND CONCRETE YARD AS CONSTRUCTED IN REVISED LOCATION TO THAT GRANTED PREVIOUSLY (06/1677 REFERS)

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18592

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: All Saints Bog and Esker SAC 000566
• Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
• Special Protection Area: All Saints Bog SPA 004103
• Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: All Saints Bog And Esker 000566

Recorded monuments

• OF029-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, M 389; N 163) shows cropmark of possible circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF029-024 Glass works
  Description

  Site of a 17th century Hueguenot glassworks in field to the W of Feddaun Castle (OF029-013----). Traces of glass furnace structure were recovered from the field walls around the vicinity of the furnace (pers comm. Mary Boydell) and glass inkwell now in display in Cloghan Castle found in field many years ago when the field was ploughed (pers comm Brian Thompson). Not visible at ground level. Site of a levelled 17th century glassworks. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Glaster.

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 Glaster with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Glaster · Glasdair

Area

2,427,828 m² (242.78 ha, 599.93 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Mounterin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mounterin electoral division: 263 people in 90 households; 95% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Co. Tipperary), Ballynasrah, Beggarstown, Clonrah and Glaster, Coolaghansglaster, Kilnaglinny, Macnahanny or Fulough

Placenames

Glaster 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.