Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 22.9 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 491 m² to 123,961 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
15 May 2025Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of: 1.) Construction of 7 No. new dwelling houses consisting of 1 No. 4-Bedroom 2-storey detached dwelling house and 6 No. 4-Bedroom 2-storey semi-detached dwelling houses; 2.) Construction/completion of access roadway/homezone area; 3.) Construction/completion of public open space landscaped area; & 4.) All ancillary site development and services works at
Permission, 7 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2560225
29 Apr 2025N/a
The development will consist of: 1.) Construction of 7No. new dwelling houses consisting of 1No. 4-Bedroom 2-storey detached dwelling house and 6No. 4-Bedroom 2-storey semi-detached dwelling houses; 2.) Construction/ completion of access roadway/ homezone area; 3.) Construction/ completion of public open space landscaped area; & 4.) All Ancillary Site Development and Services Works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560192
1 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for a change of use from an existing GP Room to a Montessori/Preschool facility and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23230
2 Mar 2022Refused
Permission to: 1. Construct an extension to existing building to create a one bedroom apartment at first floor; 2. Construct external staircase to rear for access to first floor apartment and carry out all ancillary site development works and connections to services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22119
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
- RO042-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.6m NE-SW; 29.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-6.4m; int. H 0.1-0.35m; ext. H 0.3-0.35m) with slight traces of a fosse (at SE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.25m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-043----) is c. 105m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- Killinvoy House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built 1825, with rear return, abutting outbuildings and enclosed yard to south with various ancillary outbuildings. Now in private domestic use. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Front and north elevations have roughcast render to basement, ruled-and-lined render to ground floor, pebbledash to first floor. Pebbledash to south and west elevations. Limestone string courses distinguish floors. Timber sash and replacement windows, all with stone sills. Limestone steps to front. Timber panelled door surmounted by fanlight, set to limestone surround comprising pediment and pilasters. Roughcast-rendered walls to abutting outbuildings with slate roof and cobbled inner yard. Other outbuildings to site with random coursed stone walls. Range of lean-to outbuildings to west yard wall with square-headed carriage openings. Yard bounded by random coursed stone wall with carriage arch to east side. House set in mature grounds with two sets of cut stone gate piers to entrance avenue.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glebe.
- 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
- 229,345 m² (22.93 ha, 56.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killinvoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Scregg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Scregg electoral division: 556 people in 201 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creggan, Galey, Knockcroghery, Longnamuck
- 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.