A church house provided for a member of the clergy.
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On it he built a glebe house and offices, the only one then in this county, and expended therein more than a thousand pounds.
Sheridan Le Fanu was educated privately in Abington glebe house during the disturbances, before entering Trinity College, Dublin, in 1832.
Many of his architectural designs were for glebe houses to accommodate the clergy, others for churches.
The living is a rectory, yearly value 800, with a glebe house, in the a gift of the Earl of Abergavenny, and held by the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, Bart.
The church of the union is at Six-mile-bridge, and the glebe-house is in the parish of Bunratty.
The glebe-house was built in 1822, by aid of a gift of 450 and a loan of 50 from the former Board.
The glebe house is situated near the northern boundary.
Hayward died a wealthy man on 27 June 1627 in the parish of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, where he had lived for many years in the grandest of the glebe houses in Bartholomew Close.
As soon as he could fit up the glebe house for his reception he resided in it, and has continued religiously and conscientiously to do so, ever since.
The tithes should be sold at a moderate valuation, and a fund established, which would not only provide amply for the clergy, but enable them to build glebe houses.
While there he built a glebe house, restored the fabric of the church, and with Thomas Boyce of Bannow House founded Bannow agricultural school on a farm of 40 acres.
He memorialized the archbishop for permission to erect a glebe house in 1784, and received a grant of £100 for this purpose from the Board of First Fruits.