Glebe
Glebe is a townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Ghléib.
- Area
- 13.8 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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
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
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.
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
- SL019-005001 Habitation site
Description
Situated a short distance N of Skreen Church of Ireland and in proximity to the Early Christian and later medieval ecclesiastical remains (see SL019-006---, SL019-007---- and SL019-008----). It comprised an apparently naturally-occurring platform. Habitation material was uncovered in trenches excavated in 1962 as part of the construction of a new rectory. This included hearths, quantities of animal bones and sea shells, a bone spindle-whorl and a bone pin. (NMI Topographical File 1962; Lucas 1964, 98) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL019-005002 Midden
Description
Situated a short distance N of Skreen Church of Ireland and in proximity to the Early Christian and later medieval ecclesiastical remains (see SL019-006---, SL019-007---- and SL019-008----). This midden formed part of a habitation site (SL019-005001-) (NMI Topographical File 1962; Lucas 1964, 98). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 22 May 2013
Architectural heritage
- Skreen School, school, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay single-storey rendered former National School, built c. 1855, now in community use. Gabled porches to centre of east (front) elevation and to south gable, two-bay single-storey kitchen extension to north end c. 2000, extension with mono-pitch roof to north end of west (rear) elevation c. 1980. Pitched slate roofs to main building and porches, clay ridge tiles, roughcast flat-capped chimneystacks, stone verges, half-round cast-iron gutters. Pitched artificial slate roofs to extensions, artificial ridge tiles, uPVC gutters. Painted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, dressed limestone sills, painted eight-over-eight timber sash windows each with wider central glazing bar. uPVC casement windows on concrete sills to north extension. Square-headed door openings, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, painted timber doors. Set with gable to road on site sloping away steeply to north, concrete boundary paths, rubble stone boundary walls, wrought-iron flat bar pass gate between rubble stone and concrete pillars.
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 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. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe · An Ghléib
- Area
- 138,375 m² (13.84 ha, 34.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skreen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Skreen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 175 people lived in 65 households in the Skreen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farranyharpy, Skreen Beg, Skreen More
- 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.