Glebe

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 1,726 m² to 139,694 m² (13.97 ha, 34.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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

• OF042-053001 Church
  Description

  St. Mark's church is a 19th century Church of Ireland church which may have been built on the site of or in close vicinity to the church of Ballyitty [Ballyatty] which is mentioned in a 1619 land grant to Edmond Medhopp (CSP Irel. Jas. 1, 452). In this land grant it mentions 'the lands of Kilnebrosnye 35a, and Glasterymore 341a, except 20a belonging and adjoining the church of Ballyitty as a glebe' (CSP Irel. Jas 1, 452). There are no surface remains of any medieval church within the present church and graveyard.

• OF042-053002 Graveyard
  Description

  St. Mark's Church and graveyard is a 19th century Church of Ireland church and graveyard which may have been built on the site of or in close vicinity to the church of Ballyitty [Ballyatty] which is mentioned in a 1619 land grant to Edmond Medhopp (CSP Irel. Jas. 1, 452). In this land grant it mentions 'the lands of Kilnebrosnye 35a, and Glasterymore 341a, except 20a belonging and adjoining the church of Ballyitty as a glebe' (CSP irel. Jas 1, 452). This medieval church may have had a graveyard there are no surface remains of any medieval memorials or pre-1700 headstones within the present graveyard.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mark's Church (Ettagh), church/chapel, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1831, with four-bay nave and two-stage tower. Extended to south-east to accommodate new chancel. No longer in use. No roof. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone eaves course, limestone coping and decorative saddlestone over gable. Castellated parapet to tower with pinnacles to corners and limestone string course. Lancet windows to nave with chamfered limestone surrounds. Triple lancet to chancel. Pointed-arched louvered openings to belfry with chamfered limestone surrounds. Pointed-arched door opening to tower with chamfered limestone surround. Graveyard to site with variety of grave markers. Site enclosed behind rendered rubble wall and accessed through wrought-iron double gates. Members of the Lloyd family from Gloster House are buried here.

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

246,630 m² (24.66 ha, 60.94 acres)

Civil parish

Ettagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Ettagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

515 people lived in 170 households in the Ettagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Coolderry, Glasderry More

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.