Glennanea
Glennanea is a townland in the civil parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 105.1 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 6,656 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glennanea, from 454 m² to 694,176 m² (69.42 ha, 171.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glennanea 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission to erect a dwelling house, domestic garage/garden shed, install a secondary waste water treatment unit with soil polishing filter and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2215
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glennanea.
Recorded monuments
- RO051-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E-facing crest of a N-S esker ridge. It is not visible at ground level in improved pasture but it was probably a rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-049 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a subrectangular embanked enclosure (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a low N-S esker ridge. Described as a circular area defined by the remains of a stone wall which was absent W-N and overlain by the N-S townland boundary with Turlaghmore (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO051-050001-) is c. 200m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-050001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 36m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.7-7.3m; int. H 1-1.2m; ext. H 2-2.2m), which is removed ENE-SE but with evidence of a stone wall on top which is most visible WNW-N. There is an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.8-8m; Wth of base 1.6-2.1m; D 1-1.35m) and an overgrown outer bank (Wth 3-4.4m; H 0.3-0.7m) NNW-E-WSW (max. ext. diam. 52m NE-SW). There is no identifiable original entrance, but souterrain (RO051-05002-) is inside the inner bank at NW. Cashel (RO051-049----) is c. 200m to the NNW. See the attached aerial view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-050002 Souterrain
Description
Inside the inner bank of rath (RO051-050001-) at NW. This is a regular rectangular depression (dims of top 9.4m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE; dims of base 7.3m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE; D 1.2m) with no evidence of spoil or of stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-051001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 29.2m NNE-SSW; 29.1m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m; int. H 0.3-0.65m; ext. H 1.15-1.85m), with inner facing-stones visible S-W. There are slight traces of an outer fosse at N and the entrance (Wth 1.8m) is at SSE. Souterrain (RO051-051002-) is in the interior. See the attached aerial view taken from the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-051002 Souterrain
Description
Running from the perimeter at W towards the centre of rath (RO051-051001-). This is a regular, grass-covered depression (dims of top 10m ENE-WSW; 2.9-4.1m NNW-SSE; D 0.5m) expanding at either end but without spoil or stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glennanea.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Glennanea, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glennanea.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glennanea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Glennanea
- Area
- 1,050,798 m² (105.08 ha, 259.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmaconnell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 315 people lived in 106 households in the Taghmaconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dundonnell, Knock, Onagh, Sraduff, Turlaghmore
- Placenames
- Glennanea 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.