Glascloon

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glascloon, from 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 152,112 m² (15.21 ha, 37.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Glascloon 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  a change of house and garage design from that previously approved under planning reference 041308, including their positioning within the site, and all ancillary site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560467

• 29 Sept 2025N/a

  a change of house and garage design from that previously approved under planning reference 041308, including their positioning within the site, and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560450

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 Glascloon.

Recorded monuments

• OF043-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on SE facing slope of low natural rise in upland area overlooking river to the E. Raised circular area (diam 17m E-W approx.) enclosed by earthen bank and shallow external fosse with no evidence of an entrance feature. Interior covered in field clearance debris making detailed examination impossible. Possibly a small ringfort. 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

• OF043-022 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Not marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps and hachured like a ring-barrow on 1910 edition of OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF043-024 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as an irregular shaped enclosure on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF043-078 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a ditch visible on Bing aerial photograph. Faint outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages dated 08/04/2020 and 10/07/2018. See attached Bing orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 17 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Glascloon · Glaslochán

Area

893,762 m² (89.38 ha, 220.85 acres)

Civil parish

Aghancon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybritt, Ballyrickard More, Danganreagh, Fancroft, Heath, Keraun

Placenames

Glascloon 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.