Glebe

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 394 m² to 29,446 m² (2.94 ha, 7.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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.

• 5 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561926

• 12 Dec 2024Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT TO FACILITATE AND SUPPORT THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL / HORTICULTURAL USE OF THE LANDS COMPRISING OF: (1) 9 NO. POLYTUNNELS (COMBINED FLOOR AREA OF 1,818 SQM), (2) 1 NO. RAINWATER STORAGE TANK (21 SQM), (3) 1 NO. PORTACABIN (26 SQM), (4) 2 NO. CONTAINERS (28 SQM), (5) BLOCKWORK WALL AND SEMI-ENCLOSED AREA (CA. 36 SQM) ADJACENT TO PACKING SHED AND (6) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING COMPRISING 2 NO. ADDITIONAL WINDOWS TO SECOND STOREY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462059

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461523

• 11 Aug 2023N/a

  (1) A STATIC MOBILE HOME, (2) A CONCRETE BASE, (3) A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351193

• 4 Aug 2023N/a

  (1) A STATIC MOBILE HOME (2) A CONCRETE BASE (3) A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351166

• 21 Oct 2022N/a

  (1) FHORBAIRT AR (A) ATHRÚ ARÚSÁID AN CHÉAD URLÁIR ÓSTÓR GO CÓIRÍOCHT OIFIGE/CEARDLAINNE (B) PORTACABIN/CÓIRÍOCHT OIFIGE (C) 2 CHOIMEÁDÁN STÓRÁLA (D) 11 PHOLAITHOLLÁN (E) 1 CHÓRAS BAILITHE BÁISTÍ (2) CEAD CHUN (A) SÍNEADH A CHUIR LEIS AN BPRÍOMHFHOIRGNEAMH OIFIGE/CEARDLAINNE ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN (B) TOLLÁN TAIGHDE NUA A THÓGÁIL (C) SEOMRA GAIRDÍN ILFHEIDHME A THÓGÁIL (D) CÓRAS DABHACH SHÉARACHAIS ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN A DHÍCHOIMISIÚNÚ AGUS DABHACH SHÉARACHAIS NUA A CHUR ISTEACH LE GIOLCACH AGUS CÓRAS BOGAIGH TREASACH AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍMH GO LÉIR A BHAINEANN LEIS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251751

• 12 Sept 2022N/a

  EXISTING GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE (2)ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING ALL FACADE ALTERATIONS & DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CONSTRUCTIONS TO THE REAR (3) RAISING THE LEVEL OF THE REAR GARDEN AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251521

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSION, REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851881

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: Ballyness Bay SAC 001090
• Special Protection Area: Falcarragh to Meenlaragh SPA 004149
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyness Bay 001090

Recorded monuments

• DG024-003 Graveyard
  Description

  There is a local tradition of a burial ground here on the W side of Ballyness Strand. Some bones are said to have been found during ploughing. Just W of the 'burial ground' there is said to have been a 'church' (DG024-003001-) about 50 or 60 years ago. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG024-003001 Church
  Description

  There is a local tradition of a burial ground (DG024-003-) here on the W side of Ballyness Strand. Some bones are said to have been found during ploughing. Just W of the 'burial ground' there is said to have been a 'church' about 50 or 60 years ago. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Ardnadrean Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rectory, built c.1840, having two-bay side elevations, flat-roof porch to front elevation (east), and three-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear at southwest corner. Later in use as private house, now disused. Hipped U-plan natural slate roof with cut-stone eaves course, overhanging eaves, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, central pair of two-stage stepped smooth rendered chimneystacks to front section with stepped coping, and single two-stage stepped smooth-rendered chimneystacks to each return to rear. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls over projecting plinth course, and with raised hammered and dressed stone block-and-start quoins to corners. Smooth-rendered red brick walls to porch with moulded smooth-rendered parapet. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, some surviving internal timber shutters, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level. Square-headed doorway to south wall of porch and to rear elevation of house with battened timber doors, and overlights. Three-bay single-storey lean-to to southwest with corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered copings, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed six-over-three pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and square-headed timber door. Set back from road in own grounds adjacent to Trá Bhaile an Easa [Ballyness Strand]. Avenue to house from south. Detached two-storey outbuilding to northwest with pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings (now boarded) and flight of rubble stone steps to front (south) giving access to doorway at first floor level. Single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Recent outbuildings to northwest and recent single-storey stables to rear. Mature trees to site.

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 10 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 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 Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Glebe · An Glaidhb

Area

219,941 m² (21.99 ha, 54.35 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyness, Killult

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.