placenamesGlenhull
Gleann Choll
Glenhull became a base for folklore collecting and for recordings of Tyrone’s surviving native Irish speakers.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Gleann Choll · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glenhull · English · main form
Place & story
Michael J. Murphy’s base
Folklore collector Michael J. Murphy moved to Glenhull with his wife Alice and their young family in 1949, when he became a full-time collector. His work in Tyrone later informed Tyrone Folk Quest, published in 1973. The move placed Glenhull within a sustained effort to record local speech, memories and oral traditions. [2] [3]
The 1951 recordings
In February 1951, Radio Éireann’s mobile unit travelled through snow to the Sperrins after Murphy alerted Proinsias Ó Conluain to Irish speakers around Glenhull near Greencastle. RTÉ’s archive identifies Dermot Maguire as the sound engineer and preserves the original field recordings, first cut on disc and later transferred to tape. Recordings of the broadcasts made from that material do not survive. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Strabane Upper
- Civil parish
- Bodoney Lower
- Within
- Teebane East
- Coordinates
- 54.71838, -7.06882 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135071 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glenhull. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ring of Gullion Newsletter — issue 3, Winter 2012 · Ring of Gullion
- Michael J. Murphy — obituary · The Irish Times
- Na cainteoirí ó dhuchás deireannacha i gCo Thír Eoghain — archive identifier AA1665 · RTÉ Archives; Proinsias Ó Conluain
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-19. How this page was prepared.