Glebe

Area

104,470 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres)

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 736 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Glebe

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• LA002-018001 House - medieval
  Description

  On slightly elevated site at E side of Glenlahan. Reference to the site of a tower house or fortified house, thought to have been built by Teige Oge O'Doyne c. 1551 (Crossdaile 1959, 12). Site of seventeenth century house and bawn (LA002-018003-) situated on slighly elevated ground close to E bank of Glenlahan river. All that remains is W wall of bawn (LA002-018003-) which has three simple splayed gun opes and part of an angle tower at its N end. Bridge (LA002-018002-) which crosses the river and gives access to the house may be early seventeenth century and contemporary with it. A nineteenth century single storey four bay derelict farmhouse (ext. dims. N-S 18m ; E-W 6.2m; wall T 0.6m) orientated on a N -S axis stands on top of a seventeenth century house which is contemporary with the bawn wall (LA002-018003-). The basement of the seventeenth century house was filled in to provide foundations for the farmhouse which has a byre (int. dims. N-S 4.6m ; E-W 5m) at the S end. The concrete floor of the farmhouse has been ripped up in the N room off the kitchen of the farmhouse revealing the basement of an earlier building underneath. This earlier chamber (int. dims. N-S 3.38m; E-W 1.87m; wall T 1.2m) is partly below the ground and is not a true basement and is similar to the ground floors of other seventeenth century fortified houses. There is a blocked up window lighting this chamber in the centre of the N wall and a stone ledge or shelf running N-S along the inner face of the W wall. In the floor of this chamber there is a square shaft which may have been a latrine shaft (dims 0.48m x 0.53m x D 0.3m), it has drystone stone surround and is currently filled up with debris. It may have been a latrine shaft that exited outside the house. Presumably the ground floor of this seventeenth century house extends S underneath the floor of the upstanding farmhouse. This upstanding building may also incorporate part of the earlier structure as there is evidence for blocked up windows in the E wall of the kitchen of the farmhouse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-018002 Bridge
  Description

  Over River Glenlahan in mountain valley. Small narrow single-eyed humpbacked bridge (Wth 2.85m) which gives access to seventeenth century house (LA002-18001-) and bawn (LA002-018003-) marked 'Turrets' on OS 6-inch map. Built with rubble sandstone and founded on bedrock. No evidence of plank or wattle centring in the barrel vault of the bridge, the elliptical arch measures 3.85m wide. The size and shape of this structure and its position in relation to the seventeenth century house would suggest a late-medieval date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-018003 Bawn
  Description

  On slightly elevated site at E side of Glenlahan valley in the Slieve Bloom mountains. Site of seveteenth century house (LA002-018001-) and bawn situated on slightly elevated ground close to E bank of Glenlahan river. Bridge (LA002-018002-) to the W of the house and bawn which crosses the river, gives access to the house and may be early 17th century and contemporary with it. All that remains is the W wall of bawn which has three simple splayed gun opes and square mural towers at NW angle and off centre to S along W wall of the bawn. This wall survives approx. 2.5m high above external ground surface. House (LA002-018001-) forms E side of bawn, partial remains of N wall of bawn surviving on average 1.5m high and which in places has been rebuilt in the nineteenth century, partial remains of the S wall of the bawn that are now incorporated into a field boundary. The bawn wall is constructed with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with no base batter visible. The bawn encloses a large rectangular area (int. dims. E-W 63m; N-S 47m; wall T 0.65m) with later 19th century buildings orientated N-S running across centre of the bawn. This later farm building runs S off the inner face of the N wall of the bawn. At this junction there may have been a square gun tower protruding N beyond the face of the N wall of the bawn. A 19th century single storey 5 bay farmhouse orientated on a N -S axis stands on top of a seventeenth century house (LA002-018001-) which is contemporary with the bawn wall. The square gun tower (int. dims. 2.31m x 2.47m; wall T 0.65m) located off centre to S on the W wall is best preserved and provides flanking fire along external face of W wall. Of the NW angle tower only the W wall survives. Both towers posessed gun loops which provided flanking fire along external face of W wall of bawn. The towers protruded 1m beyond outer face of W wall of bawn. Distance between NW and SW tower measures 26.9m. Later gap (Wth 2.62m) knocked through W wall of bawn located off centre to N. Possible original gateway protruding beyond external face of N wall located off centre to W near NW angle tower, now destroyed. Evidence for possibly three square gun towers one at the NW angle of the bawn and one located off centre to S along the W wall and the other located off centre to E along the N wall of the bawn. The farmhouse occupies the NE angle of the bawn and runs N-S forming the enclosing element of the bawn on this side. The bawn wall originally ran off the S gable of this house and returned W running down towards the river forming a large rectangular bawn. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1972 (ZIP).

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.