Glenart

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenart, from 402 m² to 123,697 m² (12.37 ha, 30.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III application Level 1 - consist of a ten year planning permission to develop an electricity service, entailing the laying of approximately 23.9 kilometers of 38kV cable from the consented Ballymanus Wind Farm (Reg. Ref. 17/814) to connect the wind farm to the national grid at the existing Arklow 220kV ESB Station, County Wicklow, the proposed grid connection will be installed within existing private tracks and public roadway and include, provision of joint bays, draw pits, communication chambers, three phase electrical cables, optical fibre cables and cable sheath sectionalising chambers, water and rail crossings by (i) bridge crossings, (ii) horizontal directional drilling and iii) guided auger bore, limited ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development, reinstatement of land, road and track surface above the proposed cabling trench, all associated ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU)2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, When a notice issues in accordence with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660755

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  detached storage shed no. 1 (388.50m2), detached tool / battery shed no. 2 (38.9m2), 2 no. sprinkler tanks and pump house (13.95m2) located north of building no. 1. Retention sought for detached storage shed no. 3 (224.60m2) located north of building no. 2 and all associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560752

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  single storey extension to building no. 1 (728 m2) and 2 no. battery storage kiosks and 2 no. invertors to northern façade of building no. 1, removal of ground mounted solar panels and construction of detached single storey building (120m2) to the south of building no. 1. single storey extension to building no. 2 of (152 m2) and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560689

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  as constructed weighbridge office extension, PRR 20/1282 and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22601

• 1 Jun 2022Refused

  for a dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system, upgrading existing entrance & provision of a driveway & associated works. The site is accessed via existing right of way.

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22583

• 18 Feb 2021Conditional

  an amendment to Block 1 permitted under PPR 19/54 consisting of a single storey extension (281sqm) and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21156

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  (i) first floor extension to existing single storey weighbridge office (ii) above ground fire water storage tank to serve this building and development permitted under PPR 19/54 (iii) omission of office building permitted under PPR 19/54 and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201282

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  detached two storey office building (249 sqm) detached timber factory building with canteen, wcs and 1st floor office (1432 sqm) and detached timber factory building with mezzanine office / wcs / canteen (1476 sqm), site layout to include 3 no yard areas, 30 no car parking spaces, 20 no cycle spaces, 2 no bin storage area, 3 no vehicular entrance gates, boundary fence, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1954

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  detached two storey office building (249 sqm) detached timber factory building with canteen, wcs and first floor office (1432 sqm) and detached timber factory building with mezzanine office / wcs / canteen (1476 sqm). Site layout to include 30 no car parking spaces, 20 no cycle spaces, bin storage area, 3 no vehicular entrance gates, boundary fence, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181453

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenart.

Architectural heritage

• Glenart Castle, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay part two-, part three- and part four-storey toy castle-style country house, built c.1820 with mid 19th century additions. The country house is built around the fabric of a hunting lodge. The country house is a large sprawling complex comprising of mainly long two-storey wings, projecting canted bays, a porte-cochere and a tall tower. Parapets are all castellated and details include hooded mouldings and bartizans. It is constructed in ashlar granite with later wings finished in render. The window openings are largely flat-headed and filled with timber sash frames, mostly six over six. There are also many windows with double sash and tripartite frames. The country house is set within a large wooded demesne with the remains of garden terraces close to the house. At the roadside there are two small matching picturesque gate lodges.

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, 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_3295 (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.

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

Name

Glenart · Gleann Airt

Area

1,099,083 m² (109.91 ha, 271.59 acres)

Civil parish

Arklow, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arklow Rural electoral division: 1,415 people in 498 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraine Lower, Ballyraine Middle, Kilcarra East, Mongan, Pollahoney, Shelton Abbey

Placenames

Glenart 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.