Glebe

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 3,191 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 166,037 m² (16.6 ha, 41.03 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.

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.

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.

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

• GA096-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In mixed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). On the 1933 map edition it is more irregular in plan (c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W) and the NE sector is occupied by farm buildings. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 151, no. 46) as a ‘much destroyed’ oval ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 73m N-S; c. 26m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• GA096-103 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In recently cleared farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 158, no. 45) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 38m) defined by a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement glebe house, built c.1800, with two-storey over basement stairs return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roofs, with paired rendered chimneystacks to main block. Rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course to ground floor. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Blind windows to first floor of gable ends. Pedimented tripartite cut limestone doorcase, with square-headed door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with six-over-six small-pane timber sliding sashes having cut limestone sills, and approached by flight of cut limestone steps with cut limestone retaining walls. Rectangular-profile cut limestone piers and dressed limestone flanking walls to road entrance. Set within mature grounds.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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. Galway.

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

217,082 m² (21.71 ha, 53.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconierin electoral division: 741 people in 238 households; 89% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahercormick, Hollypark, Lecarrow, Lissalondoon

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.