Glenkeen Lower

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenkeen Lower, from 3,105 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) to 186,551 m² (18.66 ha, 46.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Glenkeen 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.

• 26 Jan 2026Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank percolation area Bored Well and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 264

• 1 Oct 2018Unconditional

  extend time on planning permission 12/489

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18591

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenkeen Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Glenkeen Lower, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1910 (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 Glenkeen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Glenkeen Lower · Gleann Caoin Íochtarach

Area

925,697 m² (92.57 ha, 228.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Clonaslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykenneen Lower, Brittas, Glenkeen Upper, Scarroon, Srahduff Glebe

Placenames

Glenkeen 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.