Glebe

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 1,823 m² to 85,120 m² (8.51 ha, 21.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  a protected structure ref 308 as follows: 1) change of use of rear detached outbuilding as guest accommodation unit including alterations to elevations, new waste water treatment system to west and all ancillary works; 2) new disabled ramp to rear of main house

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460146

• 20 Feb 2024Conditional

  proposed construction of single storey type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance & boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460028

• 1 Feb 2024N/a

  proposed construction of single storey type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance & boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460023

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

• LF023-032001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, within a graveyard (LF023-032002-). St Eiche is associated with an early foundation at Kilglass (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 390). In 1407 the parish church of St Echich was assigned to Maurice Macgillavanaeim, archdeach of Ardagh (Cal. papal letters 1904, vol. 6, 120) and in 1465 William Obranaguyn was the perpetual vicar (ibid. 1933, vol. 12, 535). The rectory was leased to Walter Tirrell of Dublin in 1542 (Nicholls 1994, vol. 1, 38). A church is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Ardagh barony in ‘Aghnesherg’ (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.25), an area that roughly corresponds with this townland. McNamee (1954, 680-81) recorded that, although no remains survived, a mound in the graveyard was traditionally believed to mark its site. In 1977 (SMR file) the grass-covered foundations of the church (dims. c. 9m E-W; 6m N-S) were evident and a number of graves were set in a line across its W end. No architectural features were noted apart from a fragment of a round-headed window, which was incorporated into the stile beside the entrance gate. The interior of the graveyard has been levelled in recent times and no visible surface trace of the church survives. Some memorials have been removed and built into the surrounding graveyard wall. An octagonal cross-shaft (LF023-032004-) has been cemented on top of the wall beside the stile and a stoup (Lennon 2005), probably also from the church, has been incorporated into its fabric. A motte and bailey (LF023-033----) lies c. 40m to the SSW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF023-032002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a church (LF023-032001-). This subrectangular graveyard (72m NNW-SSE; 66m ENE-WSW) is enclosed by a modern-looking, narrow, straight-sided bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.9-3.1m; H 0.4-1.2m) and an external narrow, steep-sided, flat-bottomed, partially waterlogged fosse (Wth 1-1.8m; D 1.1m; 1.6m). The inner face of the bank is stone faced at NE. Access is via a wrought-iron gate at the N end of the NW wall and short lengths of stone walls have been built on either side of it. On its N side there is a stone stile, the uppermost step of which consists of a fragment of a late-medieval round window head. Just beside the stile, the octagonal shaft of a possible cross (LF023-032004-) has been cemented onto the top of the wall and a stoup (Lennon 2005), probably also from the church, has been incorporated into the fabric of the wall. The interior of the graveyard is uneven and poorly drained. A fosse that is evident in the SE quadrant may be the remains of ‘a broad low earthen bank with wide shallow external fosse' noted in 1977 (SMR file) and it most likely defined the graveyard prior to the construction of the present graveyard wall. Decipherable memorials date from the 19th and 20th centuries. According to local tradition, it was the burial ground of the O'Farrells of Ardanragh (Farrell 1891, 326). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF023-032004 Cross
  Description

  Beside the stile at the entrance to a graveyard (LF023-032002-). The lower part of a possible shaft of a cross has been cemented onto the top of the graveyard wall. The shaft (H 0.48m; Wth 0.37m; T 0.27m) is octagonal in plan with chamfered sides terminating at four bull-nose chamfer stops. A small tenon protrudes from the top of it. It probably dates to the 16th or early 17th century. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

• LF023-033 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  On a WSW-facing slope in low-lying pasture, with extensive views in all directions. A small, oval, steep-sided, earthen mound (H 4-6m; dims. at base c. 26m ENE-WSW; c. 21m NNW-SSE) with a relatively flat-topped summit (c. 20m ENE-WSW; c. 13m NNW-SSE). A shallow fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.5m) separates the motte from the bailey, which is to the NE. The bailey comprises a low, roughly square platform (11m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.75m). The motte and bailey are encircled by a largely infilled, wide, shallow fosse (Wth 10.1m; max. D 1m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Kilglass House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1790–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former Church of Ireland rectory on L-shaped plan, built c. 1800, having attic storey, central projecting single-bay single-storey over basement entrance porch to the main elevation (southwest) and two-storey over basement return to the rear at the northeast corner. Now in use as a private with single-bay two-storey over basement extension to the re-entrant corner of rear return. Hipped slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks to the front block having terracotta chimney pots. Hipped slate roof to projecting porch. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having stone sills; replacement windows to first floor and basement level of main elevation, and tripartite/Wyatt window timber sliding sash windows to ground floor comprising central six-over-six panes windows flanked by fluted timber columns and timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows. Square-headed doorway to the southwest face of porch having timber panelled door with fielded panels flanked by engaged Tuscan style columns. Segmental-headed (former) fanlight to front face of porch (southwest) having leaded spider’s web tracery and a cut stone sill. Flight of cut stone steps to the southeast side of porch, giving access to doorway, having simple wrought-iron railings. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Ardagh and the northwest of Legan. Approach avenue to house from road to the northeast. Associated Church of Ireland church (13401922) adjacent to the northeast.

• Saint Anne's Church (Kilglass), church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding former Church of Ireland church, built c. 1814 and altered c. 1860, having three-bay nave elevations (openings blocked), two-stage bell tower (on square-plan) to the northwest gable having flaking single-bay vestibules to either side (southwest and northwest) and apse to the chancel gable (southeast). Now roofless and disused. Largely overgrown with ivy. Roof now collapsed/removed, formerly pitched over nave and hipped over apsidal chancel. Roughcast render over roughly coursed limestone walls. Chamfered limestone plinth course to side vestibules. Crenellated parapet with cut stone coping over and carved ashlar limestone corner pinnacles (on square-plan) to bell tower. Projecting dressed limestone string course and eaves course to tower. Pointed arch window openings to front face of side vestibules having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and dressed sills, now infilled with breeze block construction. Openings to side elevations of nave and to chancel now infilled and/or obscured by vegetation. Pointed arch openings to tower at belfry stage (second) having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, opening to front elevation (northwest) set in blind square-headed recess. Fittings now gone. Pointed arch door opening to front face of tower (northwest) having chamfered limestone surround with carved limestone hoodmoulding over, now infilled with breeze block construction. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Ardagh and the northwest of Legan. Surrounded by graveyard with collection of recumbent, upstanding and box-type grave markers dating to the nineteenth and twentieth century. Pebbledashed rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the northeast, rubble limestone boundary walls elsewhere to site. Main entrance gateway to the northeast comprising a pair of pebbledashed gate piers (on square-plan) having cut limestone capping and double leaf wrought-iron gates. Associated rectory (134019201) adjacent to the southeast.

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 5 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.

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. Longford.

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

324,797 m² (32.48 ha, 80.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 236 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaclifford, Coolnafinnoge, Corrycorka, Kilglass and Cloonagh, Tully

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.