Glenranny
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcormick, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Gleann Raithní
- Area
- 152.3 ha
- 376 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenranny, from 14 m² to 430,544 m² (43.05 ha, 106.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Glenranny 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
28 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260513
2 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a calf house, associated effluent
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251099
22 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for existing domestic garage/store as constructed on s
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251042
22 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211810
8 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of an external bulk milk tank and associated site works
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210898
22 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210403
23 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201399
21 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200214
16 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A MILKING PARLOUR AND COLLECTION YARD WITH AN UNDERGROUND
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191660
24 Sept 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181307
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 Glenranny.
Recorded monuments
- WX021-040 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a NE-facing slope. A faint cropmark of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (13) 12–14), but it is rather uncertain. However, the faint cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 39m E-W; 35m N-S) is more is more clearly visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018) as was first reported by Simon Dowling. It is divined by a NNW-SSE fence, and the defining feature can barely be seen E of this. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 June, 2012 Amended: 6 March, 2020
- WX021-045 Enclosure
Description
Situated towards the top of the NE-facing slope of Oulart Hill. The cropmark of a large oval enclosure (dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 2m) is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 March 2020
- WX021-046 Enclosure
Description
Located towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of Oulart Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined by a fosse is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 March 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenranny.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenranny.
- 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
No address of the register names Glenranny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Glenranny · Gleann Raithní
- Area
- 1,523,309 m² (152.33 ha, 376.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Wells, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinroad, Ballymurragh, Clone West, Dranagh, Funshoge, Kilcormick, Raheenduff
- Placenames
- Glenranny 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.