Glebe

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 10 m² to 26,113 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  for part construction of an extension to an existing dwelling and a garage. Permission is also sought for the completion of the extension to the existing dwelling and the garage; and for refurbishment works on the dwelling, along with the construction of a new effluent treatment plant and all associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660393

• 23 Jul 2020Conditional

  for works to existing dwelling house including 1] demolition of existing extensions to rear front porch, chimney, and fuel shed, 2] alterations to window openings to front / rear / side 3]new roof material [metal] and overhang detail 4] all associated site works. Gross floor area of works to be retained: 156 msq [h] & 42 msq [g] Gross floor area of any demolition 62sqm house, 97sqm stores

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201003

• 8 Sept 2017Conditional

  for renovation of existing approved single family dwelling to include part demolition of flat roof section to rear, change of remaining flat roof to apex roof, modification and addition of opes including dormer window to front and rear elevations to allow for attic conversion, demolition of existing garage and sheds to allow construction of new garage and all associated works (Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 65.51sqm, Garage 84sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171340

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

• GA054-033 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In poorly drained level pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glebe.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_331 (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.

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

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

153,421 m² (15.34 ha, 37.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billymore or Carrowntober, Lemonfield, Rushveala

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.