placenamesGlenogra
Gleann Fhógra
Lewis connected parish land with earlier chantry endowments.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gleann Fhógra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glenogra · English · main form
Place & story
Land, chapels and family tombs
Five small glebes, totalling twenty-nine and a half acres, belonged to Glenogra parish in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He traced them to chantry endowments associated with the old abbey church. Lewis reported nine chantries at the Reformation and identified traces of four in the ruined building he described. He also recorded tombs belonging to the De Lacy, Roche, Bourke, O’Grady and Fitzgerald families within its large cruciform church. His description is evidence of the ruins as understood in 1837, without establishing the present survival of those features. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Coordinates
- 52.50647, -8.60837
- Mapped area
- 17.17 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1545 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glenogra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glenogra: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.