# Glenart, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Gleann Airt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,099,083 m² (109.91 ha, 271.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,245 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C2.1 Employment, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Arklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/arklow.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55161 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250720 - Centre: latitude 52.811503, longitude -6.198452 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenart, from 402 m² to 123,697 m² (12.37 ha, 30.57 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 6065310: 123,697 m² (12.37 ha, 30.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065310.md - Parcel 6036871: 13,341 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6036871.md - Parcel 4811518: 10,089 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4811518.md - Parcel 1278767: 9,189 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278767.md - Parcel 6065017: 6,636 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065017.md - Parcel 1256428: 5,038 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256428.md - Parcel 5004144: 4,245 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5004144.md - Parcel 1250526: 3,859 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250526.md - Parcel 6011075: 3,795 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6011075.md - Parcel 1285461: 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285461.md - Parcel 5405624: 3,515 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5405624.md - Parcel 5039642: 1,756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039642.md - Parcel 6009640: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6009640.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C2.1 Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Arklow/Arklow-and-Environs-Local-Area-Plan-2018-2024 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 25 Aug 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660755: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660755/0 - 23 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560752: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560752/0 - 2 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560689: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560689/0 - 3 Jun 2022, Wicklow County Council 22601: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. as constructed weighbridge office extension, PRR 20/1282 and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22601/0 - 1 Jun 2022, Wicklow County Council 22583: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22583/0 - 18 Feb 2021, Wicklow County Council 21156: Conditional. Permission. an amendment to Block 1 permitted under PPR 19/54 consisting of a single storey extension (281sqm) and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21156/0 - 15 Dec 2020, Wicklow County Council 201282: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201282/0 - 22 Jan 2019, Wicklow County Council 1954: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1954/0 - 21 Dec 2018, Wicklow County Council 181453: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/181453/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley, site code 001748 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenart. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Glenart Castle, country house, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 16404001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16404001. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3295.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenart.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenart.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenart.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glenart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyraine Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyraine-lower.md - Ballyraine Middle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyraine-middle.md - Kilcarra East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilcarra-east.md - Mongan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mongan.md - Pollahoney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/pollahoney.md - Shelton Abbey: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/shelton-abbey.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenart - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/glenart