Glaslacken
Townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Glas Leacan
- Area
- 96.6 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 118
- registered freehold, median 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 36
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glaslacken, from 7 m² to 70,050 m² (7.01 ha, 17.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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
No zone of a development plan covers Glaslacken 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
15 Jul 2026N/a
Permission to erect a domestic garage that will be ancillary to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260944
15 Jul 2026Refused
Permission for retention of existing storage containers on site, on a temporary
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260946
1 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish the existing single storey room to the southern
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260863
9 Jun 2026Refused
Permission for retention of existing dwelling house previously granted under
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260738
29 May 2025N/a
Permission for retention of and permission to change of use of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250632
13 May 2025N/a
Permission for retention of and change of use of existing domestic garage previ
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250551
13 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1) construct an extension to existing dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250287
15 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241269
21 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of extension and alterations to existing domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240998
8 Aug 2024N/a
Permission for retention of extension and alterations to existing domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240949
22 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240316
15 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for retention of conversion of existing domestic garage with extensio
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240154
12 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to change design of extension granted under planning reg 20210865 wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231212
2 Aug 2023Refused
Permission for retention of conversion of existing domestic garage with
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230895
13 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1) construct an extension to existing dwelling house,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230654
26 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220700
4 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220585
25 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220537
15 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following: 1) existing extension to the side of
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220195
4 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to change design of extension granted under Planning Reg. 20210865 wi
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220128
11 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a storage shed, restricted to domestic storag
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211743
21 Oct 2021Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211628
30 Sept 2021N/a
Premission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & a fully serviced dwell
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211527
9 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extention to the front of existing dwelling house and per
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211271
3 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Retention planning permission for the conversion of existing shed to dwelling ho
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210865
The 25 most recent of 36 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunclody Slate Quarries 000750
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glaslacken.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glaslacken.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2777 (ZIP).
- 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
- Glaslacken, Bunclody5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Glaslacken · Glas Leacan
- Area
- 966,291 m² (96.63 ha, 238.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- St. Mary's electoral division: 787 people in 263 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyprecas, Barnahask (Co. Carlow), Boolycreen, Boolynavoughran, Clonyburn
- Placenames
- Glaslacken 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.