placenamesGlen
The small Donegal townland lies in Killymard parish and has its own census return.
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
- Glen · English · main form
Place & story
Twenty-three inhabitants in 1911
Glen had twenty-three inhabitants in 1911, ten male and thirteen female, in four occupied houses. Its population had also been twenty-three in 1891, falling to nineteen in 1901, with four houses at each census. The table gives its area as sixty-five acres, three roods and twelve perches. It places the townland in Killymard parish, Banagh barony and Mountcharles electoral division and dispensary district, within Donegal Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Donegal, Table VII, printed page 16 · Census Commissioners William J. Thompson, Edward O’Farrell and Daniel S. Doyle; Census Office, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-17. How this page was prepared.