A glebe house was the official residence provided for a Church of Ireland rector, tied to the parish and its lands, and this one served the parish of Inchigeela. What makes it quietly notable is its layered history: the 1859 building was not the first structure on the site but a deliberate replacement for an earlier house that had stood here since the 1750s.

The surviving fabric is modest but legible. The house was square in plan, rising two storeys over a semi-basement, with the entrance front facing east across two bays. The door, set to the north of that front, was reached by a flight of steps, a small touch of formality typical of institutional domestic building of the period. The hipped roof, which would have given the building a neat, self-contained silhouette, has collapsed entirely, leaving the chimney stack as the most complete element still standing. According to the nineteenth-century clergyman and topographer W. Maziere Brady, the 1859 construction replaced a house dating from the 1750s, placing the site within a long history of Church of Ireland provision in this part of mid Cork.