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Glebe is a small townland located in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the county's varied terrain. Like many Irish townlands, Glebe represents a traditional administrative division of land with deep historical roots. The area is characteristic of Donegal's geography, featuring the rolling hills, boglands, and pastoral countryside that define much of the northern Irish landscape. The townland's name itself derives from the Irish land tenure system, where "glebe" referred to land traditionally held by the Church of Ireland clergy, a naming pattern found throughout Ireland and reflecting the historical influence of ecclesiastical institutions on land division and settlement.
The history of Glebe, as with other Donegal townlands, is interwoven with the broader historical patterns of Ulster and Ireland. The region experienced significant changes during the Tudor and Stuart periods, the subsequent plantation efforts, and the various land reorganizations that followed. Like much of Donegal, the area would have been shaped by Gaelic Irish traditions, Norman influence, and later English administrative systems. The townland system itself, which formalized the division of Irish land into named parcels, became standardized during the medieval period and remained the primary means of land organization through subsequent centuries.
Today, Glebe remains part of the living landscape of County Donegal, where many traditional townlands continue to function as meaningful geographic and community reference points. The townland represents the intricate patchwork of land division that characterizes rural Ireland, where such divisions continue to hold significance for locals, historians, and those researching genealogy and land history. As with rural Donegal generally, Glebe's contemporary character reflects both continuity with its agricultural past and the changes brought by modern Irish society, making it representative of the county's small rural communities.
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- Parish
- County
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Irish Name
An Glaidhb
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Barony
Kilmacrenan
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
Townland Location
OpenStreetMapDetails
- English
- Glebe
- Irish
- An Glaidhb
- Parish
- Tullaghobegly
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- County
- Donegal
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