placenamesGlantane
An Gleanntán
Glantane's church and schools record successive generations of local building, benefaction and communal support.
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 Gleanntán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glantane · English · main form
Place & story
Replacing the thatched church
Kilshannig Heritage Society records that the Lombard family provided a site in Brittas for Glantane's Catholic church, which opened in 1821 as a small thatched building. In 1877 Fr Lynch called a meeting to seek a larger replacement. An alternative site near the village could not be secured, so the earlier building was demolished. The present church opened on its site in 1878, dedicated to St John the Baptist. [2]
Glass and gifts
The society's account also records how the church's interior acquired its furnishings. Fr Bartholomew Shinnick commissioned the three Munich-made sanctuary windows in 1905, including one depicting St John the Baptist. Workers at Lombardstown creamery contributed through weekly collections towards the original Stations of the Cross, alongside a donation from Dr Ryan. The creamery itself presented the sanctuary lamp. These gifts connect the building with the working community as well as its clergy. [2]
School endowments and a new building
The National Library's catalogue of the Lombard family papers identifies a grant of Glantane land for a schoolhouse by the Misses Lombards and others to the minister and churchwardens of Kilshannig. The surviving group of deeds covers 1624–1822; the catalogue does not assign that grant an individual date. A later educational landmark is St Abbey's National School, whose own history dates construction to 1952 and its official opening by the Bishop of Cloyne to 1953. [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig
- Within
- Glantane
- Coordinates
- 52.10458, -8.75901 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412782 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glantane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilshannig Parish Churches: Glantane Catholic Churches · Donie O’Sullivan, Kilshannig Heritage Society
- Lombard Family Papers: title deeds, Brittas and Glantane, MS 49,545/7 · National Library of Ireland
- St Abbey’s/Glantane National School: principal’s welcome and school history · Glantane National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.