Glengoura Lower

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glengoura Lower, from 1,872 m² to 455,444 m² (45.54 ha, 112.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Glengoura Lower 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.

• 13 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for construction of two storey detached dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank system and percolation area, vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6405

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional permission

  Construction of a slatted shed, straw bedded shed, seepage tank and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4691

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  Retention of sunroom on side of dwelling and domestic garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4647

• 25 Feb 2022Incompleted application

  Retention permission to retain indefinitely sunroom on side of dwelling and domestic garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4418

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 10/4879) together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/4433

• 15 Apr 2010Conditional

  Retention of the existing 30m high telecommunications support structure carrying antennae & link dishes together with associated equipment container & security fencing

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4879

• 14 Aug 2008Conditional

  Demolition of extension to rear, construction of sunroom extension, alterations to roof of dwelling, deck area, construction of percolation area to serve existing septic tank, and new site entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8398

• 22 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Demolition of extension to rear, constrction of sunroom extension and alterations to roof of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7994

• 24 Aug 2007Refused

  Construction of 1 no. two storey dwelling, 1 no. single storey dwelling and 2 no. treatment units

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/10494

• 25 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9851

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 Glengoura Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CO046-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c. 1835, facing west, having two-bay nave, single-bay transepts and lean-to sacristy to south end of east elevation. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron cross finial to gable-front. Single-pitched artificial slate roof to extension. Rendered walls, painted and with plinth course except for east elevation. Pointed arch window openings, having render surrounds to all except for east elevation, with replacement uPVC windows. Tudor-arch window opening to upper gable-front. Square-headed entrance door openings to gables, with render surrounds and replacement timber doors, having holy water stoups to one side. Interior has timber panelled galleries to entrance end and to transepts, supported on painted round-profile columns. Carved timber pilasters flank stained-glass windows to altar area. Timber A-framed ceiling, elaborated to crossing with chamfered timber support columns. Elaborate tombstone to west of church. Bellstand to site with bell. Square-profile painted rendered piers with cross motifs and ornate caps having double-leaf cast-iron gates, set to coursed sandstone boundary walls with painted render copings.

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 Glengoura Lower, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1503 (ZIP).

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 Glengoura Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Glengoura Lower · Gleann Gabhrach Íochtarach

Area

743,936 m² (74.39 ha, 183.83 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Curraglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glasshouse, Glengoura Upper, Lisnabrin North, Lisnabrin South, Mountprospect, Slieveadoctor, Templevally

Placenames

Glengoura Lower 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.