placenamesGalgorm
Galgorm Castle preserves a layered estate history and was the birthplace of scholar Rose Maud Young.
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
- Galgorm · Irish · main form · validated name
- Galgorm · English · main form
Place & story
An estate changing hands
The museum booklet The Project of Plantation traces Galgorm through a series of seventeenth-century owners. Rory Og McQuillan occupied a fort here in 1610. After land sales involving Sir Faithful Fortescue and William Edmonstone, Alexander Colville acquired Galgorm and built a house within the earlier bawn, the defensive enclosure. [2]
Rose Maud Young
Rose Maud Young was born at Galgorm Castle on 30 October 1865. Educated at home, she later studied Irish in London and Belfast and helped establish Feis na nGleann in 1904. Her three-volume Duanaire gaedhilge, published in 1921, 1924 and 1930, presented Irish songs and poetry with teaching notes and vocabulary. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Galgorm. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Project of Plantation: Seventeenth Century Changes in North East Ulster, Galgorm section · Mid-Antrim Museums Service
- Young, Rose Maud (Ní Ó hÓgain, Róis), Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009) · Linde Lunney
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.