placenamesGlencar
Gleann Chárthaigh
Glencar’s history includes the conversion of estate property to hospitality and the memories of a national teacher involved in organising the local Volunteers.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gleann Chárthaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glencar · English · main form
Place & story
The house that became Glencar Hotel
At Griffith's Valuation, John Breen leased a house and almost two hundred acres in Lyranes Lower from the Lansdowne estate. By the Ordnance Survey's twenty-five-inch mapping of the 1890s, the building was labelled Glencar Hotel. The University of Galway's Landed Estates database notes a possible earlier use as an estate hunting lodge. That origin remains qualified, but the maps establish its hotel identity by the end of the nineteenth century. [2]
Seán Scully’s route into teaching and politics
Glencar national teacher Seán, or Bertie, Scully recorded his experiences for the Bureau of Military History. His father and brother Liam were also teachers. In his account, an examination visit to Killarney in 1914 introduced him to a Volunteer drilling parade; his subsequent training at De La Salle in Waterford coincided with changing political attitudes around the Easter Rising. The statement connects a named local teacher with the wider educational and political networks of the period. [3]
The Glencar company on parade
Scully recalled about eighty members of the Glencar Volunteer company marching to Killorglin for a Saint Patrick's Day parade, which he believed took place in 1918. He named Joe Taylor as the company officer and described its drilled display in the town square. Scully later took responsibility for organising companies west of the Laune. His recollection shows the importance of routes and river boundaries to organisation, while its own uncertainty about the parade's year should be retained. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Dunkerron North
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Civil parish
- Knockane
- Civil parish
- Killorglin
- Within
- Lyranes Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.01161, -9.84995 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 127904 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glencar. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glencar Hotel: property record 1780 · University of Galway Landed Estates database
- Bureau of Military History witness statement WS788: Seán (Bertie) Scully, pages 1 and 5 · Seán Scully, Bureau of Military History, Military Archives
- Glencar bog with Mullaghanattin beyond, County Kerry illustration: based on a Gleann Chárthaigh by Richard Webb. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.