Glen
Glen is a townland in the civil parish of Clonea, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Gleann.
- Area
- 85.4 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen, from 144 m² to 227,286 m² (22.73 ha, 56.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Glen 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
30 Oct 2025N/a
Two storey dwelling house, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560768
14 Oct 2025Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, bored water well, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560731
6 Nov 2024Refused
for Two storey dwelling house, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460648
11 Jul 2024Conditional
a change of house design from that previously granted permission under P.D. 22/582
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460396
29 May 2023Conditional
(a) alterations to the size, number and location of windows and doors from plans approved under Planning Register Number 01/1286, as shown on the drawings (b) a single storey domestic garage attached to the rear of the main dwelling house. (c) a single storey detached general purpose shed and all site ancillary works.
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360222
29 Jun 2022Conditional
the construction of a new single storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22582
27 May 2022Conditional
the construction of a new single storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22456
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 Glen.
Recorded monuments
- WA032-018001 Church
Description
Situated on the crest of a steep NE-facing slope overlooking the NW-SE Dalligan River, with the stream c. 100m to the NE. Described in 1936 as the site of a church and graveyard (NMI file), it may the same location as early church site described by Power (1907, 113). A slight oval mound (dims. 5.5m E-W; 3.5m N-S) may be natural. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26th September, 2011.
- WA032-018002 Graveyard
Description
Situated on the crest of a steep NE-facing slope overlooking the NW-SE Dalligan River, with the stream c. 100m to the NE. Described in 1936 as the site of a church and graveyard (NMI file), it may the same location as early church site described by Power (1907, 113). A slight oval mound (dims. 5.5m E-W; 3.5m N-S) may be natural. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 26th September, 2011.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glen.
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 Glen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glen.
- 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 Glen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Glen · An Gleann
- Area
- 854,402 m² (85.44 ha, 211.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Clonea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,505 people lived in 839 households in the Clonea electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghavorraga, Ballykeroge Big, Ballyvoyle, Clonea Upper, Knockyoolahan East, Knockyoolahan West
- Placenames
- Glen 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.