Glebe
Glebe is a townland in the civil parish of Dungourney, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Ghléib.
- Area
- 5.7 ha
- 14 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Glebe in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Glebe.
Recorded monuments
- CO066-001001 Graveyard
Description
On E side of road, 800m SSW of Dungourney village; subrectangular graveyard (c. 70m N-S; c. 70m E-W) no longer in use but containing 85 headstones dating from 1751 (O Buachalla & Henchion 1964; Coleman 1910-12b). Site of ancient parish church (CO066-001002-) of Dungourney; church in ruins as late as 1774 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 193); no trace of any structure earlier than C of I church, built in 1800, standing in centre of graveyard. Described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 582) as 'a plain building with a shingled spire' for which money had 'recently been granted for its repair' (ibid). Rectangular church with attached tower at W end. Low two-storey tower with flat, pyramidal slate roof; entrance door in S wall; louvered windows at 1st floor level. Three windows in S wall of church: paired lights set in limestone surrounds; three blocked/blind windows in N wall; stained glass window in E gable. Church deconsecrated and now used as store; interior fittings removed. Two wooden partitions flank altar giving impression of chancel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO066-001002 Church
Description
In graveyard (CO066-001001-). Site of ancient parish church of Dungourney; church in ruins as late as 1774 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 193); no trace of any structure earlier than C of I church, built in 1800, standing in centre of graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Dungourney House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former glebe house, built c. 1800, with partial portico to front (north) elevation, three-bay two-storey hipped-roofed block to rear (south) having canted half-glazed conservatory to east elevation. Currently undergoing restoration. Half-glazed conservatory addition to east elevation of main block. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Pyramidal glazed roofs to conservatories. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth course and quoins. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to rear with round-headed nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed openings to conservatories with fixed pane windows flanked by timber pilasters with timber entablatures above. Round-headed door opening to front with Doric columns on rendered plinth to front. Round-headed openings within conservatory to east. Square-headed openings to conservatories with timber glazed double-leaf doors. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack, rendered walls, square-headed openings and elliptical-arched carriage arches with dressed sandstone voussoirs.
- Dungourney Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built 1800, having two-stage entrance tower to west end, spire removed, and three-bay nave elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and coping to gables. Pyramidal roof to tower. Rendered rubble stone walls with cut limestone string courses to tower and pointed arch blind openings to north elevation of nave and west elevation of tower. Paired lancet windows to south elevation of nave, having mullioned windows and limestone sills. Paired lancet windows to ground floor north elevation of tower, having four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed arch window opening to east elevation, having fixed window and limestone sill. Pointed arch window openings with chamfered cut limestone surrounds and timber louvered fittings to first stage of tower. Pointed arch door opening with chamfered carved limestone surround and timber battened door. Graveyard to site. Rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone and dressed limestone square-profile piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
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 Glebe, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glebe.
- 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 Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe · An Ghléib
- Area
- 57,125 m² (5.71 ha, 14.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Dungourney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 818 people lived in 238 households in the Dungourney electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymartin, Castlequarter, Dungourney, Rathfootera
- Placenames
- 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.