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Glasheen

An Glaisín

This small Clontead townland is recorded in Kinsale Rural electoral division.

Recorded locationGlasheen51.71297° N · 8.53746° 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

  • An Glaisín · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Glasheen · English · main form

Place & story

Four inhabitants in 1911

The 1911 census records four inhabitants in Glasheen, three male and one female, in one occupied house. Its area was twenty acres and thirty-eight perches. The townland appears under Clontead parish and Kinsale barony, within Kinsale Rural electoral division, Kinsale dispensary district and Kinsale Poor Law Union. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cork
Barony
Kinsale
Civil parish
Clontead
Coordinates
51.71297, -8.53746
Mapped area
0.08 km²
Logainm ID
11019 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Glasheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Cork, Table VII, printed pages 89–90 · 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.