Glebe House is an elegant Regency house of 1828 in woodland gardens near Churchill, about 18 kilometres from Letterkenny on the R251. The painter Derek Hill lived and worked here from the 1950s until the 1980s, when he gave the house and his collection to the Irish state. It is kept as he left it, decorated with William Morris textiles and oriental furniture, and hung with works by Picasso, Braque, Renoir and Louis le Brocquy alongside pieces from Japan and the Islamic world.
House visits are by guided tour; Hill's former studio next door is now a gallery with changing exhibitions, free to enter, and the gardens are open from dawn to dusk. It is on the road to Glenveagh National Park, and the two make a fine day together.