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Greystone

An Chloch Liath

Greystone’s history survives in an early nineteenth-century rectory, postal records and the development of Gaelic football around Eglish.

Recorded locationGreystone54.46486° N · 6.84322° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

clochstone, stone buildingliathgrey, grey place, grey horse

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

  • An Chloch Liath · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Greystone · English · main form

Place & story

Greystone Rectory

The former Greystone Rectory stands in Drumnashalog townland. A heritage survey dates it to 1822 and describes a two-storey house over a basement, with a hipped roof, rubble-stone walls and brick dressings. A two-storey stable block and entrance gates complete the group. The buildings record the provision of a substantial ministerial household in the countryside south of Dungannon, rather than a large village street. [2]

The postal name

The Greystone office replaced Mullyrodden in January 1901; Smith records a rubber datestamp that year. [3]

Football before a permanent parish club

Eglish GAA’s history records Greystone residents among the players who represented Reaskmore in the early twentieth century. That team travelled to play Moy in 1907 and 1913, although it never affiliated to the Tyrone County Board. Greystone later fielded one of five teams in a parish league, alongside Brantry, Terryglassog, Crubinagh and Eglish. Such local competitions helped widen participation before the more lasting establishment of the Eglish club. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Clonfeacle
Within
Tyhan
Coordinates
54.46486, -6.84322 (approximate)
Logainm ID
135078 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Greystone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. North–South Interconnector consolidated environmental statement, Volume3Part4, architectural heritage inventory: Greystone Rectory · SONI, architectural heritage survey
  3. County Tyrone Post Offices: Greystone and Mullyrodden · Ken Smith; Great Britain Philatelic Society
  4. History · Eglish GAA

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-01-11. How this page was prepared.