Glebe West
Townland in the civil parish of Tipperkevin, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 51.5 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 7,662 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe West, from 356 m² to 526,750 m² (52.67 ha, 130.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 West 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
12 Mar 2026N/a
1) The restoration works to an existing derelict cottage. 2) The construction of a single storey extension to the side (east). 3) A flat roof single storey link corridor structure. 4) A domestic vehicular entrance. 5) A secondary effluent treatment system and a pressurised soil polishing filter. 6) All ancillary ground works in association with the above project
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660270
14 May 2025Refused
for 1) The restoration works to an existing derelict cottage. 2) The construction of a single storey extension to the side (east). 3) A one and a half storey extension to the rear (south). 4) A flat roof single storey link corridor structure. 5) A domestic vehicular entrance. 6) A secondary effluent treatment system and sand polishing filter. 7) All ancillary ground works in association with the above project
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560499
9 Oct 2023Refused
for 1) A one and a half storey traditional style house. 2) A secondary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter. 3) A domestic vehicular entrance. 4) All ancillary ground works in association with the above-mentioned project. All of the above to be carried out on my site as follows. The proposed entrance and house are to be constructed within the Townsland of Tipperkevin Commons while the treatment system plus percolation area and remainder of the site will fall within the neighboring townland of Glebe West.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360286
1 Dec 2022Refused
to construct: (1) A two storey house. (2) A secondary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter. (3) A domestic vehicular entrance. (4) All ancillary ground works in association with the above mentioned project. All of the above to be carried out on my site as follows. The proposed entrance and house are to be constructed within the townland of Tipperkevin Commons while the treatment system plus percolation area and remainder of the site will fall within the neighbouring townland of Glebe West
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221438
9 Sept 2020Conditional
1) Build a bungalow style house which incorporates a stepped floor to follow the natural contours of the site. 2) Install a secondary sewage treatment system. 3) Relocate the existing agricultural entrance approximately 10m to the south and upgrade it to a domestic type entrance in compliance with the requirements of The Roads Department, Kildare County Council. 4) All ancillary site works associated with the construction of my proposed new home,
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201032
25 Jun 2019Conditional
demolition of an existing domestic garage/store and the construction of a new garage/store and all associated site development works at my residence
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19716
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 West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glebe West.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 West.
- 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe West
- Area
- 514,757 m² (51.48 ha, 127.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tipperkevin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas South
- Electoral division
- Newtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtown electoral division: 1,019 people in 303 households; 92% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons, Elverstown Little, Greenhall Upper, Slate Quarries, Tipperkevin
- Placenames
- Glebe West 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.