Glenphilipeen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Gleann Philibín
- Area
- 95.1 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 3,434 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenphilipeen, from 437 m² to 84,350 m² (8.44 ha, 20.84 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Passive Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) retention of existing storage building (113 sq. m) & hard surface/ yard, (2) proposed detached dormer dwelling & ancillary site development works including a proposed vehicular entrance, site services (including an on-site proprietary sewage pumping station & foul rising main to connect to the existing foul sewer) & connection to public watermain & (3) removal of existing sheds/containers
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560553
13 Mar 2025Refused
proposed detached dormer dwelling & ancillary site development works including a proposed vehicular entrance, site services (including an on-site proprietary sewage pumping station & foul rising main to connect to the existing foul sewer) & connection to public watermain
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560174
27 Jul 2022N/a
extension of appropriate period of planning ref. 14//1562 - construction of replacement dwelling together with demolition of the existing dwelling and all associated site works including an upgrade to the existing on site sewage treatment system
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 22825
29 Aug 2019Unconditional
replacement dwelling
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 19958
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 Glenphilipeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenphilipeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenphilipeen.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenphilipeen.
- 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 Glenphilipeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Glenphilipeen · Gleann Philibín
- Area
- 950,627 m² (95.06 ha, 234.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Tinahely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyshonog, Coolafunshoge, Curravanish, Farnees, Tinahely
- Placenames
- Glenphilipeen 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.