Glebe

351 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 7 m² to 112,383 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  PRECAST CONCRETE BOUNDARY WALL WITH A STONE-EFFECT FINISH ALONG BOTH SIDE BOUNDARIES AND THE REAR BOUNDARY OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2650110

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661576

• 8 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION & FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION TO DWELLING, DOMESTIC SHED & FOR LOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/6499 AND (2) DISCONNECTION FROM EXISTING SHARED SEPTIC TANK & INSTALLATION & CONNECTION TO A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661483

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660872

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF A LOW-PITCHED ROOF OVER EXISTING WORKSHOP ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE WITH A DUAL-PITCHED ROOF. ROOFS TO HOUSE AND WORKSHOP WILL HAVE NEW ROOF COVERINGS, AND WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS WILL BE MODIFIED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660396

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 4 NO. TWO STOREY DOMESTIC RESIDENTIAL DWELLING HOUSES CONSISTING OF 2 NO. DETACHED HOUSES AND 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2562221

• 14 Nov 2025Unconditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50778 CONSISTING OF 8 NO. HOUSES IN THE FORM OF 6 SEMI-DETACHED AND 2 DETACHED TOGETHER WITH MINOR RELOCATIONS OF DWELLINGS TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550162

• 14 Nov 2025Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO. 3 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550161

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FLAT ROOF TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560884

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE INTO A TWO BED APARTMENT, FOR FAMILY USE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION AND ADDITION OF TWO NEW FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOWS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461841

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF DWELLING FROM PERMANENT OCCUPANCY TO SHORT TERM RENTAL

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461799

• 6 Nov 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461781

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461418

• 10 Jul 2024Refused

  (1) CONVERSION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE TO DWELLING , (2) CONSTRUCTION OF PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN ELEVATION AND ADDITION OF TWO NEW FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOWS AND (3) NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461059

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460361

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2352019

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/50778 CONSISTING OF 8 NO. HOUSES IN THE FORM OF 6 SEMI-DETACHED AND 2 DETACHED TOGETHER WITH MINOR RELOCATIONS OF DWELLINGS TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 8 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351732

• 14 Jun 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN & WESTERN ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251031

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GOLF DRIVING RANGE FACILITY CONTAINING 20NO. DRIVING RANGE BAYS, RETAIL AREA, INDOOR PRACTICE AREA, STORAGE AREA, TOILETS, NEW CAR PARKING, INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151861

• 8 Sept 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GOLF DRIVING RANGE FACILITY CONTAINING 20NO. DRIVING RANGE BAYS, RETAIL AREA, INDOOR PRACTICE AREA, STORAGE AREA, TOILETS, NEW CAR PARKING, INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151790

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 7 NO. DWELLING HOUSES CONSISTING OF (1) 3 NO. DETACHED TWO STOREY HOUSE TYPE 'A', (2) 4 NO. SEMI DETACHED TYPE 'C', (3) CONNECTION TO ONSITE FOUL AND STORM DRAINAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 7 homes · Donegal County Council, 2151758

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SLATTED SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150775

• 20 Apr 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE, TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150704

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150533

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE, TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150390

The 25 most recent of 53 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• The Thorn, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey gabled-front porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and with two-bay two-storey return to the rear (west) with single-storey extension with mono-pitched roof attached to the north side. Now unoccupied. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch with decorative ridge cresting. Hipped and pitched slate roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and with tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to main elevation at ground floor and to the north side elevation at ground floor level, and one-over one pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level; two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Square-headed window openings to the east face of porch having paired fixed-pane timber-framed windows with segmental heads. Square-headed door opening to the north face of porch with timber panelled door with bolection mouldings. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) on L-plan with four-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with formerly pitched corrugated-metal roof (now collapsed), whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with remains of louvered timber fittings, and square-headed door openings with double-leaf and single-leaf battened timber; lean-to single-bay single-storey extension to east gable. Adjoining multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north having pitched slate roof, painted rendered lined-and-ruled walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber battened shutters and doors. Single-storey outbuilding to north having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with remains of paired timber windows, sliding timber battened doors with glazed latticed panel to north, and timber battened door to south. Set well-back from road in extensive grounds to the east of the centre of Letterkenny, and overlooking River Swilly to the east.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey lean-to addition with to the south-east gable end, and with single-storey addition to the rear (north-east) having mono-pitched roof over. Steeply pitched corrugated roof with steeped roughcast rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Slightly battered roughcast rendered walls with raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds and reveals, stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to the main elevation (south-west) having smooth rendered surround and replacement glazed timber door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the north-east of the centre of Letterkenny with small enclosed garden to the front and garden at the rear. House aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Glebe.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

• Glebe, Letterkenny5 sales

Name

Glebe

Area

1,672,002 m² (167.2 ha, 413.16 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagill, Kiltoy, Loughnagin, Magheranan

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.