Glenvela

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenvela, from 195 m² to 164,270 m² (16.43 ha, 40.59 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 Glenvela 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.

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a new slatted shed, new manure pit and new agricultural entrance onto the public road together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560540

• 28 Jun 2022N/a

  Permission to construct sunroom extension to front elevation of house and to add stone cladding to existing front porch and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22324

• 17 Jun 2022N/a

  Permission to construct sunroom extension to front elevation of house and to add stone cladding to existing front porch and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22296

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the following: (1) Retention Permission for the increase in floor area and change in elevations of the existing extension to the community centre building to that as granted under previous Planning Reference PD/00/637 (2) Retention Permission for the change of use of existing extension from performance stage, dressing room and meeting room (as granted under previous Planning Reference PD/00/637) to main hall floor extension, 2 No. Disabled WC's, ancillary storage room and entrance/exit lobby (3) Full Planning Permission for the installation of a new percolation area and connections to same from existing septic tank currently serving the existing community centre. (4) Full Planning Permission for the demolition of the existing rooms to the rear and side of the existing community centre building (5) Full Planning Permission for the construction of a proposed extension to the existing community centre building. All the above together with minor elevation changes, proposed car parking, connection to services and all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18468

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  (1) Retention permission for existing first floor extension to rear of existing dwelling house and (2) Full planning permission for the change of use of the existing domestic shed to habitable space and permission for a proposed extension to same, all to form an en-suite bedroom associated with existing dwelling house together with minor elevation changes and all ancillary developments at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18364

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  to change existing thatched roof to slate finish at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17302

• 16 May 2017N/a

  permission sought to change existing thatched roof to slate finish at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17221

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 Glenvela.

Recorded monuments

• RO021-069002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a level landscape. At the S edge of the field system (RO021-069001-) there is a WNW-ESE roadway (Wth 6-8m; surviving L c. 200m) defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m). A drystone wall and townland boundary with Gortnasillagh is its N perimeter. It is indicated as extending c. 300m further W on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it would have met road (RO027-013----) c. 350m E of the surviving section. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-069005 Church
  Description

  On a level landscape. There is local knowledge of a church site S of the roadway (RO021-069002-) in an area which is now reclaimed, and a feature like a church building can be seen on aerial photographs (ACAP: V205/11-12). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-013 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Marked for some of its length at the N end (L c. 1km) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as an 'Old road', and visible as an interrupted linear feature (L c. 4.1 km) on aerial photographs (ACAP: V205/10-11). Situated on a high plateau, sloping down to the S and W, it may have been part of an old road from Rathcroghan to Castlerea, linking up with the section (RO021-042014-) in Glenballythomas, c. 2 km to the N. This section runs from the road-junction at Gortnasillagh/Ballooney at the NE end to Lisalway cross-roads at the SW end. It traverses three WNW-ESE ridges and it would have met the road at Gortnasillagh/Glenvela (RO021-069002-) c. 1km from its own NE end. At the N end it is removed close to the junction but can be traced as a grass-covered band (Wth c. 4m) with strips of lusher growth (Wth 1-2m) on either side. About 300m from the junction one bank (Wth 3m; H 1m) can be seen as a field bank with a drain (Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.4m) on its SE side (L c. 300m). Near Lisalway cross-roads it is visible as a grass-covered carriageway (Wth c. 3m) with earthen banks (Wth 3-4.5m; H 0.2-0.4m) at either side (L c. 300m). Further N it is visible as a grass-covered berm (4m; L c. 150m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m) on the NW side. In Glenelva, N of the public road it is bounded by a field wall on the SE side which crosses to the NW side c. 500m from the public road where it is a grass-covered berm (Wth c. 3m) defined on SE by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; H 0.5m) with an outer drain. 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 Glenvela.

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 Glenvela, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Glenvela with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Glenvela

Area

1,076,231 m² (107.62 ha, 265.94 acres)

Civil parish

Baslick, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drishaghaun West, Gortnasillagh, Kilmurry, Pollranny

Placenames

Glenvela 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.