Glebe

351 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 7 m² to 112,383 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• The Thorn, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey gabled-front porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and with two-bay two-storey return to the rear (west) with single-storey extension with mono-pitched roof attached to the north side. Now unoccupied. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch with decorative ridge cresting. Hipped and pitched slate roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and with tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to main elevation at ground floor and to the north side elevation at ground floor level, and one-over one pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level; two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Square-headed window openings to the east face of porch having paired fixed-pane timber-framed windows with segmental heads. Square-headed door opening to the north face of porch with timber panelled door with bolection mouldings. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) on L-plan with four-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with formerly pitched corrugated-metal roof (now collapsed), whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with remains of louvered timber fittings, and square-headed door openings with double-leaf and single-leaf battened timber; lean-to single-bay single-storey extension to east gable. Adjoining multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north having pitched slate roof, painted rendered lined-and-ruled walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber battened shutters and doors. Single-storey outbuilding to north having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with remains of paired timber windows, sliding timber battened doors with glazed latticed panel to north, and timber battened door to south. Set well-back from road in extensive grounds to the east of the centre of Letterkenny, and overlooking River Swilly to the east.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey lean-to addition with to the south-east gable end, and with single-storey addition to the rear (north-east) having mono-pitched roof over. Steeply pitched corrugated roof with steeped roughcast rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Slightly battered roughcast rendered walls with raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds and reveals, stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to the main elevation (south-west) having smooth rendered surround and replacement glazed timber door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the north-east of the centre of Letterkenny with small enclosed garden to the front and garden at the rear. House aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glebe.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Glebe, Letterkenny5 sales

Name

Glebe

Area

1,672,002 m² (167.2 ha, 413.16 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,681 people lived in 1,340 households in the Castlewray electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagill, Kiltoy, Loughnagin, Magheranan

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.