Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Lettermacaward, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Glaidhb
- Area
- 26.7 ha
- 66 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 2,597 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 38 m² to 5,156 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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
3 Apr 2018Conditional
EXTENSION TO BOTH SIDES AND THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850494
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement T-plan Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1828, having entrance projection to front. Middle bay of main elevation has false openings. Refurbished c.1990. Hipped replacement slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and central rendered chimneystack with stepped rendered coping and clay pots. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to first floor and six-over-six pane elsewhere, with painted stone sills. Segmental-headed doorway with replacement timber door, cobweb fanlight on ovolo-moulded cornice, approached by flight of five cut-stone steps with rendered parapet wall to one side. Set on elevated site, with cobbled yard to rear, enclosed by rubble stone wall, and two-storey outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls.
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
- About 1 in 5 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.
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. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe · An Glaidhb
- Area
- 267,427 m² (26.74 ha, 66.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lettermacaward, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Lettermacaward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lettermacaward electoral division: 727 people in 301 households; 83% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- 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.