Glenmeen

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenmeen, from 78 m² to 135,724 m² (13.57 ha, 33.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Glenmeen 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a domestic garage/fuel store with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661600

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the existing site entrance/exit gate located at the eastern side of the site. Full planning permission to close up the existing site entrance/exit which is location at the road junction toward the north of the site. Full planning permission to retain the existing extension at the rear of the dwelling and its associated new roof and first floor accommodation with all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561566

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct 4 new dwelling houses with wastewater treatment plants, tertiary treatment units percolation areas, domestic garages, access road and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 833.43 sqm(h), 90.88 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560933

• 4 Jul 2025Refused

  and complete the unauthorized domestic garage/fuel storage shed with all its ancillary site works. Full planning permission also sought to demolish the existing decaying storage shed located at the rear of the dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 54 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560892

• 22 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 241.50 sqm (house) & 41.58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460319

• 5 Jul 2022Refused

  to retain and extend existing agricultural shed/slatted unit (variation to approved planning ref: 15/399) and to construct a new agricultural storage shed, dung stead and penning. (Gross floor area of works to be retained: 199 sqm; Gross floor space of proposed works: 330 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22850

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  for the following: (1) for the construction of a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. (2) Retention of a mobile home, septic tank effluent treatment system & a hardcore area as temporary accommodation & services, during construction. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling and Garage = 190.00 sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained: 36.75 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20333

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  to retain and extend existing agricultural shed/slatted unit (variation to approved planning ref: 15/399) and to construct a new agricultural storage shed, dung stead and penning. (Gross floor area of works to be retained: 199 sqm; Gross floor space of proposed works: 330 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17455

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 Glenmeen.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-106 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland and immediately to the E of Loughrea-Kilreekill road. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 41m N-S; c. 39m E-W ); partially levelled by the time of the 1947 edition. On inspection in April 1984 no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. A souterrain (GA098-106001-) is associated. A dwelling house has been built to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2019

• GA098-106001 Souterrain
  Description

  Named 'Cave' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA098-106----). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2019

• GA106-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is only visible from SW through W to NE. A roughly E-W running field boundary clips the rath at S. There is a souterrain (GA106-077001-) in the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 January 2017

• GA106-077001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a rath (GA106-077----). This drystone-built souterrain (L >10.1m) consists of a rectangular passage (L 4.1m; Wth 1.6m; max. H 1.38m) running NE-SW. Access is gained at the SW end where a section has collapsed. A linear depression (L 6m; Wth 2.7m) extending beyond the point of access indicates that the souterrain continued further to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Glenmeen, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenmeen.

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 Glenmeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Glenmeen · An Gleann Mín

Area

891,497 m² (89.15 ha, 220.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilreekill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carra, Carrowntober, Cooleeny, Cooracurkia, Dartfield, Meanus, Wallscourt

Placenames

Glenmeen 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.