placenamesTerryland
Tír Oileáin
A mass planting day in March 2000 began Terryland Forest Park’s public life.
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
- Tír Oileáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Terryland · English · main form
Place & story
Planting a city woodland
More than 3,000 people joined the planting of Terryland Forest Park on 12 March 2000. Galway City Council manages the park with help from Tuatha volunteers. By its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2025, the woodland included meadows and wetlands as well as trees, and provided space for outdoor teaching. During the anniversary celebrations, Michael D. Higgins planted an oak to replace one lost in Storm Éowyn; the fallen tree had also supplied wood for artworks by Galway artist Tommy Carew. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Galway
- Civil parish
- Saint Nicholas
- Coordinates
- 53.27958, -9.06455 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1416981 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Terryland. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- President Michael D. Higgins Celebrates 25 Years of Terryland Forest Park, June 2025 · Galway City Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2014-10-16. How this page was prepared.