Glennanore

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glennanore, from 21 m² to 2,626,485 m² (262.65 ha, 649.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glennanore 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.

• 20 Apr 2026Conditional

  the construction of a 2-storey dwelling house, new shared entrance, new driveway, along with a new waste-water treatment system, private borewell and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660253

• 1 Apr 2025Conditional

  change of house type from Dormer type residence granted planning permission under Ref. No 23/311 to a two storey Residence and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2537

• 10 Apr 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460174

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  build a Bungalow Dormer Type Residence, vehicular entrance, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter new borehole and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23311

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, separate domestic garage, packaged waste water treatment plant including percolation area, block up existing field gate and open up a new recessed entrance. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application including a landscape layout, plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2298

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Comeragh Mountains SAC 001952
• Special Area of Conservation: Nier Valley Woodlands SAC 000668
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Comeragh Mountains 001952
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Nier Valley Woodlands 000668

Recorded monuments

• WA006-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 31m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a field wall NE-SE, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.2m) SE-S and a scarp (H 0.3m) elsewhere. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 27th July, 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Helena of the Cross, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, c.1865, with single-bay three-stage engaged corner tower to west on a square plan, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south-west, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east having two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roofs (sproketed elongated pyramidal roof to tower in form of ‘broach spire’; gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles (having wrought iron finial to apex to tower), and cast-iron rainwater goods. Broken coursed squared sandstone walls with sandstone ashlar bands, and cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses to tower, and stringcourse to top stage. Lancet window openings (in tripartite arrangement to chancel) on cut-stone band with chamfered reveals (cut-granite block-and-start surrounds to chancel), and squared stone voussoirs (over cut-granite hood mouldings to chancel). Paired lancet window openings to north-west in pointed-arch frame (oculus opening to arch) with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and squared stone voussoirs. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows to all openings with some having stained glass panels. Trefoil-headed window openings to first stage to tower with chamfered reveals hood moulding over, and fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows. Lancet slit-style openings to second stage to tower with chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows. Oculus openings to top (bell) stage to tower in hexafoil surround in medallion frame with louvered panel fittings. Square-headed door opening to porch with chamfered reveals, and timber boarded door. Full-height interior open into roof with carved timber pews, exposed timber roof construction having tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling resting on moulded cornice, pointed-arch chancel arch, carved alabaster/marble communion railing, and coffered ceiling to chancel. Set back from line of road in own grounds on slightly elevated site with unpainted rendered boundary wall having unpainted rendered piers, and wrought iron double gates. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1865 – present. (iii) Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1865, to south-east possibly originally coach house with single-bay single-storey breakfront having segmental-headed carriageway. Renovated, c.1990, with carriageway remodelled. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Random rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1990. Segmental-headed carriageway remodelled, c.1990, forming open internal porch with pair of square-headed door openings having tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.

• Glennanore National School, school, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey national school, c.1865, retaining some original fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower shared double porch to centre. Renovated and part refenestrated, c.1990, to accommodate use as hall. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Broken coursed squared sandstone walls to front (south-west) elevation with random squared rubble stone walls to remainder having unpainted render over to side (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings to front (south-west) elevation with replacement concrete sills, c.1990, cut-stone lintels, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1990. Pointed-arch window openings to remainder (including to porch) with no sills, and dressed stone surrounds (red brick block-and-start surrounds to rear (north-east) elevation). Fixed-pane timber windows with timber casement windows to rear (north-east) elevation having overlights, and wrought iron bars. Segmental-headed door openings to porch with replacement timber panelled doors, c.1990, and overlights. Road fronted with tarmacadam verge to front.

• , 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1915, with raised “GR” royal cipher. Set in unpainted rendered boundary 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Glennanore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Glennanore · Gleann Fhionnúir

Area

5,253,143 m² (525.31 ha, 1,298.08 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgormuck, and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Gurteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gurteen electoral division: 383 people in 136 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clondonnell, Curraghkiely, Curraheen, Glenpatrick, Knockanaffrin, Knockaunbrandaun, Knocknaree, Tooreen West

Placenames

Glennanore 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.