Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Ghléib
- Area
- 14.3 ha
- 35 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 52,668 m² (5.27 ha, 13.01 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 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
20 Dec 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED CAR PORT, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18587
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 Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c.1820, with extension to rear and outbuildings. Now in use as a private dwelling. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled and lined rendered walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Wyatt window to entrance bay. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by sidelights. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs and rendered 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe · An Ghléib
- Area
- 142,732 m² (14.27 ha, 35.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Ferbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaboy, Ballyvlin, Brehoge, Keeloge, Vicarstown
- 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.