Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymore, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 27.9 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 1,665 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glebe, from 38 m² to 82,420 m² (8.24 ha, 20.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
14 Feb 2017Conditional
Planning Permission for the construction of a new private dwelling, fuel store and storage shed, new entrance and boundary treatment, domestic septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177024
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Owen's Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1870, having flat roofed projecting porch to centre of front façade (south). Two-storey extension to the rear (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with square-headed openings having cut stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening to west face of porch having cut stone block-and-start surround with a spoke fanlight over. Replacement timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds, now in use as a golf course, to the south of Ballymore. Main entrance to the southwest.
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 10 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. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Glebe
- Area
- 278,992 m² (27.9 ha, 68.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Ballymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymore electoral division: 735 people in 263 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore, Clonybane, Mullenmeehan, Snimnagorta
- 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.