Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Athleague, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 14.9 ha
- 37 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 1,142 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 179 m² to 2,865 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jul 2025Conditional
Permission to install a ground-mounted PV panel array and to carry out all necessary ancillary works & connections in the public car park to the west of the Riverside Centre (a protected structure RPS Ref. No. 04100018), at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560367
18 Jul 2025N/a
Permission to install a ground-mounted PV panel array and to carry out all necessary ancillary works and connections in the public car-park to the west of the Riverside Centre, a protected structure (RPS Ref. No. 041000018) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560354
11 May 2021Conditional
permission to construct two angling stands & associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21238
23 Apr 2021N/a
to construct two angling stands and associates site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21203
24 Sept 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20381
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
- Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
- RO041-048007 Church
Description
The parish church of Athleague, listed as Athlag in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 224), and marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 at a place called Gorsagar for Gortasaggart - the priest's field (Simington 1949, Athlone (449)). Situated on the W bank of a NE-SW section of the River Suck at the point where the river turns W. The church was described as a chapel of the Lystre family and in poor repair (Lewis 1837, 85). It is depicted at the NE angle of the graveyard on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This was replaced by a new Church of Ireland church, now an anglers' visitor centre, at the SE angle of a subrectangular graveyard (RO041-048015-) (dims 51m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by masonry walls. There is no evidence of the older structure. Test trenching (95E0277) around the church failed to reveal any evidence of a medieval structure (Connolly 1996). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-048015 Graveyard
Description
The parish church of Athleague (RO041-048007-) is at the SE angle of a subrectangular graveyard (dims. 51m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by masonry walls. There is no evidence of an older structure. Test trenching at the church failed to reveal any evidence of a medieval structure (Connolly 1996). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- Church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1842, with four-bay nave. Pitched slate roof with stone coping and cut limestone belfry to south gable. Squared coursed limestone walls with dressed quoins and battered plinth. Round-arched openings with chamfered stone surrounds. uPVC windows and timber panelled double doors with fanlight. Modern door to north elevation. Graveyard to north and east containing both upright and recumbent graves. Site bounded by random coursed stone wall with ashlar gate piers. Random coursed wall separates church from graveyard.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1307 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe
- Area
- 149,083 m² (14.91 ha, 36.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athleague West electoral division: 610 people in 245 households; 69% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athleague, Cloonykelly
- 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.