Glenconnor
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gleann Chonchúir
- Area
- 60.8 ha
- 150 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 2,792 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenconnor, from 85 m² to 139,283 m² (13.93 ha, 34.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 62 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Sept 2025N/a
1) the construction of 75 no. two-storey dwelling houses, and 16 no. apartments in 4 no. two-storey blocks (28 no. 4 bed terrace, 38 no. 3 bed terrace, 9 no. 2 bed terrace, 16 no. 2 bed apartments.), 2) to construct all roads, footpaths, green areas, boundaries, public lighting and associated services, 3) to connect to existing services on site, 4) to carry out all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application
Permission, 75 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2560863
20 May 2024Unconditional
the construction of 7 no. two-storey dwelling houses consisting of 4 no. semi-detached and 3 no. terraced houses with all associated site development works to include roadway, footpath, boundary treatments and connection to underground services (previously granted under Pl. ref. 18601096)
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 24115
15 May 2024Refused
A) Construction of a retirement village with 50 no. residential units, consisting of 28 no. 2 bed units, 22 no. one bed units, and 1no. facility building. B) Construction of all roads, footpaths, underground services, public open space and public lighting C) Connection to existing foul sewer network, and existing surface water drainage network. D) All associated site boundary and site development works, including partial demolition of existing boundary wall to create a new pedestrian and vehicular entrance from Glenview Close
Permission, 50 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2460368
23 Jan 2024Conditional
to modify part of the submitted site layout on planning file reference no. 2360415 by provision of 29 no. residential units where 35 no. residential units are permitted. The new layout shall comprise 2 no. terraces of 4 houses with a mix of 3 & 4 bedrooms, 6 no. terraces of 3 houses with a mix of 3 & 4 bedrooms and 1 no. terrace of 3 houses with a mix of 2 & 4 bedrooms, the proposed residential units are a mix of two and three storey. The changes do not require modification to the permitted site layout
Permission, 29 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2460042
15 Jun 2023Conditional
the modification of part of the submitted site layout on planning file reference no. 19601108 by provision of an extra eight residential units (i.e. 41 no. units where 33 no. are permitted). The new layout shall comprise 7 no. terraces of 3 houses with a mix of 2, 3 & 4 bedrooms, 2 no. terraces of 4 houses with a mix of 2 & 3 bedrooms and 2 no. terraces of 6 one bedroomed own door apartment units, all proposed units are two storey. The changes do not require modification to the permitted site layout
Permission, 41 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2360415
30 Mar 2022Conditional
1) 52 No. dwelling houses, (4 No. 4 Bed detached, 26 No. 4 bed semi-detached, 16 No. 3 bed semi-detached, 4 No. 3 bed end of terrace and 2 No 2 bed mid terrace), 2) construct all roads, footpaths, green areas and associated services, 3) connect to existing services on site, 4) carry out all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application
Permission, 52 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2260146
15 Mar 2022Conditional
modifications to the permitted site layout on planning file reference 19/601108, by (a) the addition of 8 no. proposed residential units, by changing 8 no. semi-detached dwellings into 16 no. apartments (in two blocks of eight units each), and, (b) changing a terrace of 3 no. 3-bed dwellings into a terrace of 3 no. 2-bed dwellings, including all associated site development works
Permission, 3 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2260123
4 Mar 2022N/a
1) Construct 52 No. dwelling houses, (30 No. 4 bed semi-detached, 16 No 3 bed semi-detached, 4 No. 3 bed end of terrace and 2 No 2 bed mid terrace), 2) Construct all roads, footpaths, green areas and associated services, 3) Connect to existing services on site, 4) Carry out all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260104
10 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission to modify the permitted site layout on planning file reference 19/601108, by the addition of 2 no. proposed residential units, by changing a terrace of 3 no. dwellings into a terrace of 5 no. dwellings, including all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 211350
18 Sept 2020Refused
construction of 46 residential units in 8 no. 1.5, 2 and 2.5 storey blocks comprising of: 14 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 6 no. 2 bedroom apartments, 12 no. 2 bedroom houses, 12 no. 3 bedroom houses and 2 no. 4 bedroom houses. New vehicular and pedestrian entrance from Wheatfields, access roadways, footpaths, lighting and associated site services and all associated site boundary and site development works, including connections to public drainage on Glenconnor Road
Permission, 26 homes · Tipperary County Council, 201062
15 Sept 2020N/a
construction of 46 residential units in 8 no. 1.5, 2 and 2.5 storey blocks comprising of: 14 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 6 no. 2 bedroom apartments, 12 no. 2 bedroom houses, 12 no. 3 bedroom houses and 2 no. 4 bedroom houses. New vehicular and pedestrian entrance from Wheatfields, access roadways, footpaths, lighting and associated site services and all associated site boundary and site development works, including connections to public drainage on Glenconnor Road
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201036
9 Sept 2020N/a
construction of 46 residential units in 8 no. 1.5, 2 and 2.5 storey blocks comprising of: 14 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 6 no. 2 bedroom apartments, 12 no. 2 bedroom houses, 12 no. 3 bedroom houses and 2 no. 4 bedroom houses. New vehicular and pedestrian entrance from Wheatfields, access roadways, footpaths, lighting and associated site services and all associated site boundary and site development works, including connections to public drainage on Glenconnor Road
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201011
2 Sept 2020N/a
construction of 46 residential units in 8 no. 1.5, 2 and 2.5 storey blocks comprising of: 14 no. 1 bedroom apartments, 6 no. 2 bedroom apartments, 12 no. 2 bedroom houses, 12 no. 3 bedroom houses and 2 no. 4 bedroom houses. New vehicular and pedestrian entrance from Wheatfields, access roadways, footpaths, lighting and associated site services and all associated site boundary and site development works, including connections to public drainage on Glenconnor Road
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20985
8 Oct 2019Conditional
construction of 77. no residential units comprising of 28 no. semi-detached houses, 2 no. detached houses, 33 no. terraced houses, 14 no. apartments and all associated site development works including local equipped area of play, entrance, roads, footpaths, boundary, treatments and connection to all underground services
Permission, 73 homes · Tipperary County Council, 19601108
27 May 2019Conditional
alteration and extension of existing dwelling, the works include single storey kitchen/utility/dining and living extension added to the west gable, internal alterations, new rear door opening formed in existing window opening and installation of velux roof window in inrear roof slope, siteworks and drainage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600574
21 Dec 2018N/a
to construct 61. no residential units comprising of 32 no. semi-detached houses, 20 no. detached houses, 3 no. terraced housed, 6 no. apartments and all associated site development works including entrance, roads, footpaths, boundary, treatments and connection to all underground services
Permission, 55 homes · Tipperary County Council, 18601543
7 Sept 2018Conditional
to construct 7 no. two-storey dwelling houses consisting of 4 no. semi-detached and 3 no. terraced houses with all associated site development works to include roadway, footpath, boundary treatments and connection to underground services
Permission, 6 homes · Tipperary County Council, 18601096
21 Jun 2018Conditional
construction of a new two-storey dwelling and domestic garage with packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter, vehicular entrance and associated site boundary and site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600789
17 May 2018Conditional
to construct a domestic garage and associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600617
6 Apr 2018Conditional
to construct a Nursing Home, vehicular entrance, roadway, car-parking, street lights and all associated site development works
Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600418
7 Feb 2018N/a
(1) A residential development of 24 no. houses as follows, 4 no type 1 house, 3 no. type 2 house, 6 no. type 3 house, 4 no. type 4 house, 2 no. type 5 house, 5 no. type 6 house gate lodges and also to construct 24 no. detached garages and associated site development works,including a foul water pumping station, (2) A proposed entrance to Glenconnor House (which is a protected structure in the Clonmel Town Development Plan 2002) off the Glenconnor Road. (This application involves no alterations to Glenconnor House or the adjacent buildings).
Extension of duration, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600136
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 Glenconnor.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenconnor.
Architectural heritage
- Glenconnor House, country house, 1795–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built 1797, with two-bay two-storey wings built c. 1885, terminating in gable-fronted pavilions presenting single-storey to front and two storeys to sides, that to south having flat-roofed crenellated addition to front. Prostyle tetrastyle flat-roofed portico to main entrance. One-, two and three-bay single- and two-storey with flat and lean-to roofs. Hipped slate roof to main house, with rendered chimneystacks and oversailing eaves, corbelled to gables, and moulded render eaves course. Pitched slate roofs to wings. Painted roughcast rendered walls, extremities of front elevation being slightly recessed, with string course at first floor sill level. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, set in blind round-headed recessed to front elevation. Square-headed front doorway with carved timber doorcase comprising fluted pilasters and frieze with egg-and-dart, metopes and triglyphs, with moulded cornice having egg-and-dart course and segmental pediment, with half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors. Portico comprises round Ionic columns to front, square-profile ionic columns to sides and chamfered pilasters to rear, supporting plain frieze and moulded cornice with antefixae to front corners. Limestone plinth walls between house wall and square columns supporting glazed timber porch with limestone sills, and having margined half-glazed and timber panelled double-leaf doors with margined overlight. Flight of limestone steps to portico. Yard to rear of house entered through elliptical-headed carriage archway set to rendered walls. Two multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, longer to west and shorter to north, with hipped artificial slate roofs, painted roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings, including paned overlights to doorways, louvered windows to first floor and casement windows. Walled garden to west of site with rubble stone walls.
- Glenconnor House, gate lodge, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1890, with two-bay sides, projecting gable-fronted entrance porch, and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear. Pyramidal artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystack and overhanging eaves. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth and having render pilasters with moulded imposts to corners and between bays and curving under eaves. Pseudo-three-centred arched openings with chamfered render surrounds, blind to front bays of side elevations, having timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows elsewhere to side and front elevations with render sills. Porch has projecting barges giving appearance of open-bed pediment, with half-glazed timber panelled door with limestone step. Curving painted roughcast rendered entrance walls flanking painted smooth rendered square-profile piers with decorative cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gates hung from decorative cast-iron piers.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenconnor.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Glenconnor, Clonmel6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Glenconnor · Gleann Chonchúir
- Area
- 607,865 m² (60.79 ha, 150.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Inishlounaght, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inishlounaght electoral division: 3,489 people in 1,248 households; 77% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardgeeha, Ballingarrane, Garryshane, Haywood, Inishlounaght, Kiltegan, Monkstown, Summerhill
- Placenames
- Glenconnor 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.