Glebe

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Glebe, from 147,943 m² (14.79 ha, 36.56 acres) to 147,943 m² (14.79 ha, 36.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA 004046

Recorded monuments

• WM011-008 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise on relatively low lying wet grassland. A stream which marks the boundary with Cullenagh townland cuts the W perimeter of the site from N-S. Earthwork (WM011-009----) 155m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’. Described in 1972 as a monument hat had been levelled. Present remains consists of a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 37m N-S) visible as a slight scarp enclosed by a dark band of vegetation. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior of the monument. The outline of this levelled monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Linear earthworks radiating out from levelled ringfort represent the remains of post-1700 drainage ditches. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 June 2017

• WM011-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on NE facing slope of low rise of ground on relatively low lying wet grassland. A stream which marks the townland boundary with Cullenagh is 70m to W. Possible ringfort (WM011-009----) 155m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a large oval shaped enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’. Described in 1972 as a monument that had been levelled. All that remains is a sub-circular shaped area indicated by a slightly raised platform (approx. diam. 44m ) defined by a dark band of vegetation. Vague traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNE-SSW across the interior of the levelled monument. A drain running E-W and a field boundary intersects the perimeter of the site at S. A second smaller area (approx. diam. 15m) also defined by a dark band of vegetation adjoins this monument to the NE. Other crop marks surrounding the site may be earthworks relating to post-1700 drainage. Outline of levelled monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 June 2017

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

No address of the register names Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Glebe

Area

146,754 m² (14.68 ha, 36.26 acres)

Civil parish

Leny, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Ballinalack, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinalack, Cullenhugh

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. 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.