Glenahilty

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenahilty, from 1,921 m² to 1,062,813 m² (106.28 ha, 262.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Glenahilty 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.

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) new two storey extension to the rear of dwelling house and a new single storey link connecting the new extension with the existing dwelling house, consisting of new Kitchen & Dining Area with raised outdoor decking, Living Room, two Bedrooms, two Bathrooms, one En-suite Bathroom, Utility Room, Boot Room, ancillary spaces, and to refurbish the existing dwelling house, completed with associated siteworks, (2) Permission to decommission and remove from site existing septic tank system and percolation area, (3) Permission to install new septic tank system and percolation area, completed with associated siteworks, and (4) Permission to construct new front boundary wall separating the dwelling house from the public road, completed with associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561122

• 6 Aug 2019Refused

  existing portacabin with toilet and canteen, storage containers, weighbridge, waste water treatment system/polishing filter and yard

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600859

• 30 Apr 2019N/a

  existing portacabbin, storage container, weighbridge, wastewater treatment system/polishing filter and yard

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600437

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 Glenahilty.

Recorded monuments

• TN015-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight SE-facing slope in pastureland. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map bisected by a NW-SE field boundary. On the current (1903) ed. only the SW side of the site is depicted. The NE half of the site has been levelled but is still visible at E as a curving rise. The SW half (dims. 42m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW to field boundary) is raised above the external ground level (H 1.67m), with a bank reduced to a scarp and is surrounded by a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.4m; D 0.85m) and slight counterscarp. A concrete shed occupies the S sector. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN015-090 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a rise in rolling pastureland. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'The ruined Castle of Glanehelty ye walls standinge' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 211). The tower house has been modified and incorporated in later buildings. Alterations included the lowering of the building from a three- or four-storey structure to a two-storey one. The external W face is the only side not blocked by later building, however, it has been completely re-modelled, with original fenestration replaced. This rectangular tower house (dims. 8.8m N-S; 10.5m E-W; wall T 1.4m) appears to be constructed of limestone with dressed quoins - it has an external dashed render and a high base-batter (H 3.45m; W at base 0.4m). The original entrance is on the E side through a pointed doorway with external rebate. The ground floor has been much altered and served as a parlour in the nineteenth century (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 99). Spiral stairs in the SE angle have been blocked-up between ground and first-floor level. The first-floor level is now directly under a modern roof. Two limestone corbels project from both the E and W walls which would have supported a wooden floor above. At second-floor level the stair is lit by a flat-headed single-light. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Glenahilty National School, school, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey national school, with projecting three-bay gabled front, flanked by recessed blind walls and with two-bay side walls, built 1872. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, having pitched roof to the gable. Snecked limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows set in square-headed openings, segmental-headed over doorway, all having limestone sills and brick surrounds. Limestone plaque to the southeast wall.

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 Glenahilty, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Glenahilty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Glenahilty · Gleann na hEilte

Area

2,147,072 m² (214.71 ha, 530.55 acres)

Civil parish

Ballygibbon, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Ballygibbon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 238 households in the Ballygibbon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bantis, Brownstown (Co. Offaly), Elmhill, Kylenaheskeragh, Middlewalk, Wilton, Woodville

Placenames

Glenahilty 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.