Glebe

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Glebe, from 49,095 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres) to 49,095 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

No planning application touches the townland of 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 Glebe.

Recorded monuments

• OF039-036 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church (OF039-036001-). (Cooke 1875, 220) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011

• OF039-036001 Church
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-036----) which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their Coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church. (Cooke 1875, 220) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011

• OF039-036002 Tomb - table tomb
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-036----) which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church (OF039-036001-) (Cooke 1875, 220). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011

• OF039-037 Hillfort
  Description

  Situated on top of a hill in upland area. Large circular hillfort covering an area of approx. 14 acres, defined by two widely spaced earth and stone banks with slight inner fosse and wide intervening berm (Wth 45m). The inner bank varies in width and height (ext. H 3.5m) and is reduced to a scarp at S; inner fosse visible from NE to SW. Outer bank also varies in width and height from place to place (avg. Wth 4m; ext. H 4m; int. H 1m) with no evidence of an external fosse. The outer bank is quarried at SE and modern road destroys SW portion of site. The interior of the inner enclosure rises to a low summit following the natural slope of the hill enclosing an area of approx. 1.9 hectares. Inner bank and outer defences of the site are destroyed at SW due to location of the rectory, however the interior gently slopes towards this destroyed bank where the original entrance feature may have been located. No other evidence for an entrance feature visible. This monument (excluding school & rectory buildings) is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 23/1976). The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Circular multiple enclosure positioned in upland terrain on gently sloping W facing hillslope, overlooking Fuarawn River to W and S. The site has a total footprint of approximately 4.9ha. Bivallate for the entire circuit with widely spaced enclosing elements. No evidence for any entrance features. No evidence for any internal features on the surface. SW section of inner and outer enclosing elements destroyed. The outer bank is quarried at S. Light tree cover over enclosing elements. First depicted in first edition Ordnance Survey mapping as a circular setting of field boundaries. More detailed earthwork survey in second edition Ordnance Survey maps. Recorded by O'Brien and Sweetman (1997) for the archaeological inventory of Co. Offaly. The outer enclosing elements comprise the townland boundary of Glebe and Ballycurragh.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0694.html) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey glebe house, built c.1800, with pedimented breakfront to entrance bay and return and extensions to rear. Now in use as a private dwelling. Set within its own grounds near the Aghancon Church. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows and tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening set within recessed rendered surround with spoked timber fanlight and timber panelled door. Door accessed by limestone steps. Two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof to partially cobbled yard to west of house. Front site enclosed by random coursed wall.

• Aghancon Church, church/chapel, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built in 1786 with a loan from the Board of First Fruits and assistance from Jonathan Darby, with apse and entrance porch and graveyard to site. The pulpit, pray table and stained glass windows were all taken from Ettagh Church. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, sandstone coping and a sandstone bellcote. Roughcast rendered walls to side elevations with sandstone eaves course. Ruled and lined rendered wall to front elevation with sandstone plinth course, a sandstone date plaque and sandstone diamond panel. Clasping buttresses flanking front elevation with pyramidal pinnacles. Pointed-arched window openings with stucco surrounds, sandstone sills and stained glass windows. Pointed arched window openings to front elevation with sandstone sills and timber intersecting tracery windows. Oculi with sandstone surrounds. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber battened door. Graveyard to site with variety of grave markers. Site enclosed behind rubble wall and accessed through wrought-iron gates supported by gate piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Glebe, 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 low, partly inferred.

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.

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

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

91,556 m² (9.16 ha, 22.62 acres)

Civil parish

Aghancon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

371 people lived in 144 households in the Aghancon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghancon, Ballycurragh

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.