Glebe

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 6 m² to 119,174 m² (11.92 ha, 29.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 59 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolition and removal of the existing rear and side extension at the centre to allow for the construction of a new visitor experience building including exhibition, event, and refreshments spaces, office, archive, and all ancillary facilities associated with the visitor experience building. The restoration and refurbishment of Saint Catherine's Church, a regional protected structure (RPS 31308603) to accommodate Louisburgh Community Library and other multifunctional spaces, including landscaping, lighting, signage, and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460784

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to partially demolish existing dwelling house, demolish existing sheds and construct an extension to the dwelling house, together with all associated site works at Bridge Street, Louisburg, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460278

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghmoyle Dunes 001483

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, designed 1824; built 1826 or 1828, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay (east) or single-bay (west) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacant, 1944. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on roughcast plinth. Hipped square-headed central door opening with timber mullions on step threshold framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pebble encrusted capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.

• Saint Catherine's Church (Kilgeever), church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. In use, 1944. Adapted to alternative use, 1991. Renovated, 1995. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay or terracotta ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated quoins to corners; fine roughcast surface finish (tower) with dragged cut-limestone stringcourses including dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" cornice (bell stage) supporting battlemented parapet having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, timber Y-mullions, and drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with benchmark-inscribed drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior open into roof retaining arcaded King post timber roof construction with wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling. Set in unkempt grounds with ivy-covered piers to perimeter having drag edged tooled cut-limestone monolithic capping supporting replacement "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed mild steel double gates.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Glebe.

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

183,327 m² (18.33 ha, 45.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Louisburgh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Calla, Clooncarrabaun

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. 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.