Glenfield

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenfield, from 16 m² to 284,833 m² (28.48 ha, 70.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 59 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential Development Area - Phase 1 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.4Utilities (Other gas and electricity uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential Service Sites - Phase 1 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  2 constructed domestic garages, a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling along with roof windows to front and rear of existing dwelling. All with associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560448

• 12 Feb 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2531

• 17 Sept 2024Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24357

• 29 Jan 2024Conditional

  the construction of Cubicle shed over existing slatted tank and all associated site works. Permission For Retention of (i) Slatted loose shed with storage area (ii) slatted tank with feeding area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460063

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  the construction of 28 dwelling houses, comprising of 12 semi-detached units (6 blocks) and 16 terrace units (4 blocks), boundary treatment, entrance, estate road, connection to civil services and associated site works

  Permission, 28 homes · Limerick County Council, 2326

• 9 Jun 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing ruined dwelling house, to construct new single storey dwelling house and new splayed entrance, to install sewerage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22647

• 8 Oct 2021N/a

  and completion permission for an agricultural slatted shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211403

• 13 Aug 2018Conditional

  a single storey bedroom & en-suite extension

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18810

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 Glenfield.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-015 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Toberkinangle on 1840 map. "Not inserted on plan, not known by the inhabitants as found by particular enquiry. It is. A Well. Holy Well on plan".OSNB. From this entry in the Name Books it appears to have been doubtful even then. There is no tradition now'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

• LI047-016 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Glenfield Corn Mills may have been built on site of a medieval mill known as the 'old manor mills'. In 1837 it was recorded that in the parish of Kilmallock was 'Glenfield oat-mills, belonging to Mr. Ivers, built in 1825, at a very great expense, on the site of the old manor mills' (Lewis 1837). No surface remains visible of levelled corn mill on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• Abbey View, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement parochial house, built c. 1860, having porch to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having rendered plinth course. Square-headed openings with pained stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to rear (north) and south elevations having painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed niche to rear (north) having flanking round-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding margin sash window and fanlight over six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window, with continuous concrete sill. Paired round-headed niches to rear, second floor having shared concrete sill. Square-headed opening to first floor with bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed opening having half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors. Cast-iron railings to front set in limestone plinth. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west with pitched slate roof and terracotta ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor having timber casement windows. Single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Random rubble boundary walls to east having pair of square-plan dressed limestone piers with ornate caps and double-leaf metal gates. Pair of square-plan rubble limestone piers to south and boundary walls.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_980 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Glenfield, Kilmallock8 sales

Name

Glenfield · An Gleann

Area

1,731,220 m² (173.12 ha, 427.79 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmallock

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyfarm, Ardyoul, Ash Hill, Ballygubba South, Breesheen North, Garrynoe, Kilbreedy, Kilmallock, Kilmallock Hill, Tankardstown South

Placenames

Glenfield 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.