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Glebe

The townland is listed in Ballymagorry electoral division in the Strabane district.

Recorded locationGlebe54.85918° N · 7.40532° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Glebe · English · main form

Place & story

Fifty inhabitants in 1911

Glebe had fifty inhabitants in 1911, twenty-one male and twenty-nine female. Twelve of its thirteen houses were occupied and one was empty. The population had been fifty-five in 1891 and fifty-eight in 1901, with thirteen houses at each census. The return places it in Leckpatrick parish, Strabane Lower barony and Ballymagorry electoral division, within Strabane dispensary district and the Tyrone portion of Strabane Poor Law Union. Its area was 193 acres and thirty-nine perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Leckpatrick
Coordinates
54.85918, -7.40532
Mapped area
0.78 km²
Logainm ID
65171 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

50People recorded
12Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mc Beth 8
  • Wighton 7
  • Graham 6
  • McCleary 6
  • Benson 5
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1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Glebe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 55 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.