Glen

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glen, from 388 m² to 529,331 m² (52.93 ha, 130.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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.

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  Retention As Constructed Of An Existing Agricultural Type Building Used For Equine Purposes With First Floor Level Habitable Accommodation

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2460236

• 15 Feb 2023N/a

  development consisting of an agricultural building to house animals; particularly horses during the winter period and all ancillary works at this site. Retention permission is also sought for the filling material imported and spread over the entire site area. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360031

• 27 Apr 2022Refused

  Permission for an agricultural building to house animals; Particularly horses during the winter period and all ancillary works. Retention permission is also sought for the filling material imported and spread over the site area

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22215

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  Construct a two strorey dwelling and garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22134

• 11 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission for an agricultural building to house animals; particularly horses during the winter period and all ancillary works. Retention permission is also sought for the filling material imported and spread over the entire site area.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22104

• 16 Feb 2022N/a

  Permission for an agricultural building to house animals; particularly horses during the winter period and all ancillary works. Retention permission is also sought for the filling material imported and spread over the entire site area.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2270

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  Construction of a dormer-type dwelling house with waste water treatment system and ancillary site services together with the retention of previously imported subsoil approximate area 0.07Ha and average depth of 0.7 metres

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197093

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  The construction of a dormer type dwelling house, with waste water treatment system & ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187244

• 16 Feb 2017Refused

  Permission to erect a new dwelling house and domestic garage and to install a wastewater treatment system with raised percolation area and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177027

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: Crosswood Bog SAC 002337
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Crosswood Bog 000678

Recorded monuments

• WM029-036 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge in undulating pasture. Not depicted on an ed. OS maps. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. The area is now planted with conifers. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography and the area is now part of a relatively small subrectangular-shaped conifer plantation. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

• WM029-037 Church
  Description

  A grove of trees depicted on the OSi 6-inch maps was identified by the SMR as the possible location of a medieval church depicted in this general area on the Down Survey parish map of Ballyloughloe, barony of Clonlonan. The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that; 'in Glyn and Tullchanshallsion ye walls of two churches' (NLI, MS 723-4). On the Down Survey map the church ruins are showing standing in the S quadrant of the townland close to the parish and townland boundary. Possible site of church inspected by Vincent Hurley in 1983 and described as; 'There is no trace of an upstanding building, nor any indication of the site of a church or graveyard in this area. It is an area of good pasture land. The land slopes gently to S' (SMR File). See attached Down Survey Map showing location of church ruins in the townland of Glynn (Glen), courtesy of the National Library of Ireland Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2023

• WM029-050 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In rough grassland, on the designed landscape of Glynnwood House located 295m to S. Outline of roughly D-shaped area (approx. dims. 52m N-S x 40m E-W ) enclosed by a bank and external fosse with straight side at W visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as a post-1700 grove of trees on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. May have been a ringfort that was landscaped as a post-1700 tree-ring. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2020

• WM029-053 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland, E of Glynwood House. Cropmark of roughly oval-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 60m N-S) visible on Google Earth orthoimages, on Lidar imagery and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto and Lidar Imagery Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ruaidhrí Ó Maolagain Date of upload: 12 July 2022

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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

Name

Glen

Area

3,162,431 m² (316.24 ha, 781.45 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyloughloe, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Tubbrit, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanvoneen, Ballydonagh, Creggan Upper, Crosswood, Fardrum, Fassagh, Killogeenaghan, Knockanea, Moydrum, Ories, Scroghil, Tully

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. 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.