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Glinsk

Glinsce

This Connemara Glinsk lies in Knockboy electoral division, distinct from the inland castle locality.

Recorded locationGlinsk53.37126° N · 9.83318° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Glinsce · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Glinsk · English · main form

Place & story

Twenty occupied houses in 1911

Glinsk had 123 inhabitants in 1911, sixty-three male and sixty female. Twenty of its twenty-one houses were occupied and one building was uninhabited. Its population had been seventy-five in 1891 and 110 in 1901. The return places the townland in Moyrus parish, Ballynahinch barony and Knockboy electoral division, within Roundstone No. 2 dispensary district and Clifden Poor Law Union. Its area was 1,160 acres, two roods and thirty-eight perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Galway
Civil parish
Moyrus
Within
Knockboy
Coordinates
53.37126, -9.83318
Mapped area
4.7 km²
Logainm ID
18263 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Glinsk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Galway, Table VII, printed page 25 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.