Opening Information

Current opening information until the 1st of September 2024.

The Glebe House and Gallery is open daily from Easter 2024 until the 1st of September 2024 between 10am and 6pm

The Glebe House tours are available from 11am until 5pm daily until 1st of September 2024, last tour 5pm.

The Glebe Gardens Summer time hours are 8am and 6pm from Monday the 28th of March until the 1st of September 2024. Toilet facilities are open every days during normal opening hours.

The Glebe House and Gallery and its grounds will close to the public for a period begining on the 2nd of September 2024 to facilitate a major conservation programme of works. The grounds will reopen as soon as possible but it is not envisaged that this will be before January 2025. The Glebe Gallery and Glebe House will reopen in phases  for the summer of 2025. The site will not be open for Easter 2025.

We surely regret any inconvenience this causes our visitors but we are excited to be able to progress these much needed works in advance of our bicenteneary in 2028. Please keep an eye on our social media for updates on the works and reopenning the site.

Welcome to Glebe House and Gallery

Glebe House, the home for nearly thirty years of the renowned artist Derek Hill, is situated on rising ground, beside Lough Gartan, east of Glenveagh National Park, Co. Donegal. Originally known as St Columb’s, the 1828 Regency-style house is decorated with William Morris textiles, and collections of Islamic and Japanese art, as well as 300 works by leading twentieth-century artists such as Picasso and Kokoshka. The house and gardens are displayed in an informal manner, as though Derek Hill was still in residence. Glebe House and Gallery are operated and managed by the Office of Public Works.