Glebe
Glebe is a townland in the civil parish of Clondrohid, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Ghléib.
Parcel 5693780
- Area
- 4,067 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 165 m².
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Glebe
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5904
24 Jan 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4098
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
- Area
- 31 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 16,697 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 3,968 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) to 152,096 m² (15.21 ha, 37.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5904
24 Jan 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4098
5 Apr 2019Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4846
11 Jul 2018Conditional
Construct dwellinghouse and domestic garage and all associated Site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5818
29 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6132
17 Dec 2008Conditional
Retention of extension to existing dwelling (change of layout from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/9801) & retention of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10172
30 Oct 2008Incompleted application
Retention of extension to existing dwelling (change of layout from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/9801) together with relocation of existing septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9497
9 Jul 2008Conditional
Retention of sunroom extension to front, car port to rear of dwelling and detached outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7768
16 Aug 2006Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9801
8 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5359
15 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/4803
23 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwelling
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/9777
21 Dec 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse with attached carport/garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9593
30 May 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/2611
18 Feb 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/619
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
- CO070-039001 Bullaun stone
Description
One of two bullaun stones (CO070-120----) outside gates of Clondrohid graveyard (CO070-039002-), located c. 15m to W of gates. Large irregular stone (H 0.4m; 0.5m x 0.6m) with circular hollow (diam. 0.35m; D 0.2m) on upper surface. Small hollow on SW face of stone. Small quartzite stones surround bullaun. Coffins are carried around this stone before entering graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
- CO070-039002 Graveyard
Description
At crossroads, on S side of road; subrectangular graveyard (c. 50m SW-NE; c. 60m NW-SE) enclosed by stone wall. In occasional use; recent extension on W side. Inscribed headstones date from late 18th century; earliest stone noted dated 1783. Site of ancient parish church of Clondrohid; new C of Ichurch built about the year 1756 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 122-3); this was, according to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 355), 'a large plain edifice, rebuilt in 1829'. This church shown at N end of graveyard on 1842 OS 6-inch map; it was 'taken down' in 1883 when parish united with Macroom (Cole 1903, 181). There is now no visible surface trace of church. Immediately outside gate to W are two bullaun stones (CO070-039001-; CO070-120----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO070-120 Bullaun stone
Description
One of two bullaun stones (CO070-039001-) outside gates of Clondrohid graveyard (CO070-039002-), located against W wall of graveyard and cemented into place. Subrectangular stone (H 0.2m; 0.63m x 0.57m) with circular hollow (diam. 0.36m; D 0.05m) on upper surface. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Architectural heritage
- Clondrohid Lodge, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey over basement former glebe house, commenced 1812 and completed 1815, having with four-bay elevation to side (south). Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings having rendered surrounds and stone sills. Camber-headed render surrounds to basement level windows to side (south) elevation. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor nine-over-one pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to basement, all behind recent uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening within render doorcase comprising Doric columns surmounted by dentilated architrave. Timber panelled door with spoked fanlight having rendered stepped approach with wrought-iron railing. Complex of ruinous single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard to north of site. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with remains of fixed timber windows and timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed rendered vehicle entrance arch to yard with pedestrian entrance to south. Rendered bellcote above with wrought-iron gates. Square-profile rendered entrance piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Set within own grounds.
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, landslides, flooding
- 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe · An Ghléib
- Area
- 310,160 m² (31.02 ha, 76.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondrohid, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Clondrohid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 894 people lived in 325 households in the Clondrohid electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnacrushy, Clonfadda, Glananarig, Teerbeg
- 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.