# Glenacurragh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ettagh, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gleann na Cora.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,413,499 m² (141.35 ha, 349.28 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 204,783 m² (20.48 ha, 50.6 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ettagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ettagh.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Aghancon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 371 people lived in 144 households in the Aghancon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41748
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180709
- Centre: latitude 53.042429, longitude -7.823965 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenacurragh, from 8,320 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres) to 997,045 m² (99.7 ha, 246.38 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 310299: 997,045 m² (99.7 ha, 246.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310299.md
- Parcel 5534761: 394,173 m² (39.42 ha, 97.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5534761.md
- Parcel 303401: 15,393 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303401.md
- Parcel 4683099: 8,320 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683099.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Glenacurragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 18 Jan 2024, Offaly County Council 2460012: Conditional. Permission. a slatted livestock cubicle shed with underground slurry storage and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460012/0
- 12 Jan 2024, Offaly County Council 2460005: N/a. Permission. a slatted livestock cubicle shed with underground slurry storage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460005/0
- 1 Aug 2018, Offaly County Council 18334: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MILKING PARLOUR INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18334/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF038-013: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF038-013----. This castle was situated on a low rise of ground with good extensive views of the surrounding countryside. Today there are no remains of this castle that was pulled down in the late 1960s to the rear of the country house known as ‘Glenacurragh Castle.’ The present country house was built onto the southern wall of the medieval tower house and was connected to the house by a short extension. The site of this castle was located in the range of outbuildings to the rear of the 19th century house. The Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map of 1908 indicates clearly the outline of the tower house which was attached to the north-east corner of the country house. This medieval castle was an O’Carroll tower house probably constructed in the 16th century. The Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Offaly list ‘Lewis Carroll’ as the owner of the lands of ‘Glonocorrne’[Glenacurragh] and ‘Gragaluge’ [northern part of Knock townland] in 1641. After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the subsequent Irish Wars of 1641-53, these lands amounting to 215 acres of profitable land were confiscated and granted to John Holland in the second half of the 17th century. The 1655-57 Down Survey map of Ballybritt barony shows a small building at ‘Glonocorue’ which represents Glenacurragh Castle. In 1801, Sir Charles Coote (1801, 80) recorded that in this region, ‘There are several old castles, that at Glanacurragh [which] is inhabited by Mr. Palmer.’ An old black & white photo taken c.1954 shows the castle standing amongst the outhouses of the farmyard immediately to the north of the country house. The photograph of the east face of the castle shows that it was possibly a four storey high building with attic above which was entered through a dressed stone pointed doorway located off centre to the north in the east wall. The jambs of this doorway had an external rebate to accommodate a yett which protected the inner wooden door of the castle. This doorway was very similar to the doorway at Castlearmstrong. The staggered arrangement of two slit opes at the southern end of the east wall suggests there was a spiral stairs in the southeast angle of the castle. There was a square-headed cut stone window with chamfered jambstones directly above the main entrance into the castle. Directly above this window possibly at third floor level there was a 17th century twin-light square-headed mullioned window with hood-moulding and stepped terminals which are very similar to the windows at Ballycowan Castle. This window had been partially blocked up. There was a window in the centre of the A-shape gable of the attic of the castle. The rest of this wall was covered in an external lime render which covered any other features this wall may have possessed. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 28 August 2019
- OF038-047: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF038-047----. In demesne lands, c. 110m E of Glenacurragh Castle (OF038-013----). Outline of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 44m) enclosed by low bank and external ditch with possible entrance gap at S visible on Google Earth orthophotos. The location of the earthwork on the demesne landscape in close proximity to Glenacurragh House may suggest that this earthwork could be the remains of a designed landscape feature like a tree-ring rather than the remains of a ringfort. S half of earthwork is partially indicated with hachures on the revised 1888 ed. OSi 6-inch map and on the 1908 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The tree lined bank depicted on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map may represent part of the enclosing element on the S side of this earthwork. See attached Google Earth orthoimagery Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Finnán Reid Date of upload: 19 July 2022

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Glenacurragh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenacurragh.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenacurragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenacurragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenacurragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Glenacurragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballywilliam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballywilliam-180219.md
- Cloghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghan-180346.md
- Clooneencapullagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clooneencapullagh.md
- Dromoyle: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dromoyle.md
- Irishtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/irishtown-180760.md
- Knock: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knock.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenacurragh
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/glenacurragh