Glenwood
Glenwood is a townland in the civil parish of Derrylossary, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Clárach Íochtarach.
- Area
- 102.6 ha
- 254 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 67,477 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenwood, from 4,944 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) to 130,010 m² (13 ha, 32.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glenwood 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
27 Mar 2024N/a
a garden annex ancillary to the existing dwelling (renovated and extended under plan ref. 09/1268 with an upgrade to the existing wasterwater system under plan ref. 20/1255) linked with a walkway. Garden annex for use as a home office and art studio, together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460176
13 Mar 2024N/a
a garden annex ancillary to the existing dwelling (renovated and extended under plan ref. 09/1268 along with new wastewater system plan ref. 20/1255) linked with a walkway. Garden annex for use as a home office and art studio, together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460147
4 Jul 2023N/a
a garden annex ancillary to the existing dwelling (renovated and extended under plan ref. 09/1268 with an upgrade to the existing wastewater system under plan ref. 20/1255) for use as a home office and art studio, together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23577
14 Sept 2022Conditional
existing domestic shed as constructed and associate works and permission for the removal of planning condition no. 2 of planning ref 03/9871 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of person)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22994
1 Mar 2022Conditional
revised house type with an adjoining garage, together with minor revisions to site layout from that as previously granted under PRR 21/728 together with connection to effluent treatment system as granted under PRR 21/728, all together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22189
15 Feb 2022Conditional
side entrance to the garden of The Lodge
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22148
4 Feb 2022N/a
a side entrance to garden
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2299
4 Oct 2021Conditional
a 198 sqm forestry storage shed, new septic tank and percolation area, new well, upgrading of existing entrance and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211194
9 Dec 2020Conditional
removal of existing wastewater system, installation of new wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter to current standards and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201255
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: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC 000733
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) 000733
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenwood.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenwood.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glenwood, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenwood.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Glenwood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Glenwood · An Clárach Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,026,276 m² (102.63 ha, 253.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Derrylossary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Trooperstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clarabeg North, Cronybyrne, Cronybyrne Demesne, Moyntiagh
- Placenames
- Glenwood 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.