Denn Glebe

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Denn Glebe, from 1,613 m² to 1,613 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Denn Glebe 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.

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing lean-to garage & boiler area and replace with new boiler room and level access bathroom facilities, conversion of existing living room to bedroom and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1991

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Denn Glebe.

Recorded monuments

• CV026-026001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV026-026002 Stone sculpture
  Description

  Situated within the modern Church of Ireland graveyard. A weathered rectangular stone pillar (dims. c. 0.4m x c. 0.31m) decorated with interlace, the remains of three figures, and pairs of rampant winged horses. Davies (1948, 81) suggested that it was originally located at Carrickaboy Glebe church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV026-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the NE slope of a drumlin hill. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded a raised circular area (int. dims. 24.5m NW-SE; 23.8m NE-SW) enclosed by a slight earthen bank and a narrow fosse which is visible only from SE-S-N. At W a breach in the bank gives access to a small square alcove built into the hillside. Narrow break in bank at S may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV026-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV026-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope. This is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular scrub-covered enclosure. It is also visible on Digital Globe imagery (c. 2013) as a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 23-25m) defined by what might be a slight scarp or fosse (Wth c. 5m). It was first reported by Anne-Karoline Distel. See the attached view from Digital Globe Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Denn Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1817, having three-bay nave with three-stage tower to south-west elevation, vestry added 1868 to north-west elevation. Hipped and sproketed slate roof, clay ridge tiles, short octagonal-profile cut-stone stacks on north-east gable, brick chimneystack on north-west elevation near vestry. Hipped slate roof to vestry with clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods to tower and replacement rainwater goods elsewhere. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls with raised smooth cut-stone block-and-start quoins. Hammer dressed masonry blocks to vestry. String course to each offset stage of tower, with crenellated parapet corbelled out with ball-topped pinnacles at corners. Louvred lancets to belfry stage with hood mouldings, square-headed windows to first stage with hood moulds and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch doorway to south-east side of tower having two orders and hood moulding in ashlar limestone, recent double-leaf timber entrance door with glazed tympanum of cusped Y-tracery arch and mouchette. Datestone over entrance reads: ‘Revd Joseph Drumm Vicar. Thos Heaslip. Patk Fagan Church Wardens 1815’. Pointed arch windows to nave with cut-stone window jambs and hood mouldings, replacement uPVC Y-tracery windows. Pointed arch window to north-east elevation with three-light timber switch-line tracery having cusping and mouchettes in spandrels. Dressed sandstone to openings of later vestry. Flat ceiling to interior having replacement timber sheeting in compartments between tie beams. Shallow chancel defined by single step. Painted glass in mouchettes and quatrefoil of north-east window. Elliptical-headed door arch through gable to tower with timber door having ten panels in two registers, upper trefoil-headed panels continuing onto over-door. Timber bench seating and wainscotting on north and south walls below window level. Timber plinth to pulpit with open quatrefoil and trefoils to spandrels. Chancel table from early twentieth century. Timber chancel rails, pulpit, reredos, and reader’s desk having same cornice profile. Church and graveyard surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls with gate sweep to entrance and cast-iron gates. Detached three-bay single-storey school across road from entrance, now disused, comprising hipped slate roof, lime rendered rubble stone walls, cast-iron lattice window and timber door.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Denn Glebe.

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 Denn Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Denn Glebe

Area

194,009 m² (19.4 ha, 47.94 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Denn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateggal or Ryefort, Dennmore or Leggandenn, Pollakeel

Placenames

Denn Glebe 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.