Glebe

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Glebe, from 62,890 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres) to 62,890 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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

• LE029-006 Crannog
  Description

  Situated at the mouth of a subrectangular bay (dims c. 150m N-S; c. 120m NE-SW) at the NE end of the subcircular Fenagh Lough (dims. c. 800m NE-SW; c. 600m NW-SE). This is an overgrown, circular, stony island (diam. 11.5m E-W; 10.5m N-S; H 0.7m) with a narrow causeway (Wth 1m) curving beneath the surface of the water towards the mainland at N. (Kane 1886, 408-9) See the attached view taken from the E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Saint Catherine's Church (Fenagh), church/chapel, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1787; dated 1790, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay double-height single-cell comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1864, producing present composition. Closed, 1974. Restored, 1988-9. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with roll moulded clay ridge tiles (east), lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables on cut-limestone kneelers including cut-limestone coping to gable (porch) with pedimented bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners; snecked limestone walls (east) with drag edged cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and limestone ashlar voussoirs framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-limestone mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic labels stops framing iron mesh panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening (porch) with inscribed cut-limestone sill ("1790"), timber Y-mullion, and limestone ashlar voussoirs framing fixed-pane fittings having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with limestone flagged central aisle between timber pews, wind braced diagonal timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, Gothic-style timber clerk's desk with Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barely twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on timber altar table below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1888). Set in landscaped grounds with lichen-spotted limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• The Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1829, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. "Improved", pre-1909, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Replacement hipped terracotta tiled roof on a quadrangular plan with terracotta ridge tiles, paired limestone ashlar central chimney stacks on cut-limestone cushion courses on roughcast bases on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on coursed or snecked limestone base with cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners; part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls (porch) with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Segmental-headed window openings (porch) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Square-headed window openings in segmental-headed recesses (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing three-over-three timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing three-over-three (basement), six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped 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).

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 Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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. Leitrim.

Name

Glebe · An Ghléib

Area

180,270 m² (18.03 ha, 44.55 acres)

Civil parish

Fenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Fenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 142 households in the Fenagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commons, Drumcattan, Drumharkan

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.