Vicarsfield Glebe

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Vicarsfield Glebe, from 2,455 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 2,528 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Vicarsfield 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 Vicarsfield 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 Vicarsfield Glebe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Vicarsfield Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• Vicarsfield House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey Church of Ireland rectory, built 1822 or 1827, with central two-bay two-storey breakfront to the main elevation (southwest) and single-bay two-storey breakfront to the centre of the three-bay rear (northwest) elevation. Shallow hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, central pair of cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Square-headed door opening to central breakfront with timber panelled door, spoked fanlight and timber doorcase. Segmental-headed recess to breakfront (adjacent to the southwest of doorway) with square-headed opening having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed opening to the centre of the rear elevation (northwest) with glass double doors, overlights and concrete steps. Set in extensive mature grounds to the south west of Ballinalee. Two-storey outbuilding to the rear (13304008). Main entrance gate to the south. Former entrance gate to the east comprising pair of cut limestone gate posts on octagonal-plan with moulded heads and cast-iron gates.

• Vicarsfield House, outbuilding, coach house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted former coach house, built 1822, having central single-bay breakfront to the principal elevation. Pitched and hipped corrugated-metal roof. Rubble limestone walls with dressed sandstone quoins to ground floor and dressed limestone string courses. Square-headed openings, those to breakfront and ground floor having limestone sills and dressed limestone surrounds. Elliptical-arched carriage arch to breakfront with dressed limestone voussoirs and surround and timber battened double doors. Square-headed opening to southwest elevation with dressed limestone block-and-start surround and lintels and timber architrave. Wrought-iron gate to entrance. Located in mature grounds to the rear of Vicarsfield House (13304007) and to the southwest of Ballinalee.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Vicarsfield 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 Vicarsfield Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Vicarsfield Glebe · Gort an Bhiocáire

Area

107,511 m² (10.75 ha, 26.57 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinalee electoral division: 648 people in 253 households; 67% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavan, Currycahill, Gorteen

Placenames

Vicarsfield 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.