placenamesWhitechurchglynn
Teampall Geal an Ghleanna
Lewis traced part of the parish’s ecclesiastical income to a First Fruits purchase.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall Geal an Ghleanna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Whitechurchglynn · English · main form
Place & story
Part of the rectory, rather than the whole
In Whitechurchglynn, County Wexford, the Board of First Fruits purchased the portion of the rectory formerly held by the Colclough family around 1740, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The purchase endowed the impropriate cure. A separate portion remained with the Earl of Portsmouth. Lewis placed the cure within the union of Killurin; his account concerns divided ecclesiastical rights and income, rather than a purchase of the entire parish or all its land. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Bantry
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.36558, -6.63010
- Mapped area
- 30.41 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2638 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Whitechurchglynn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Whitechurch-Glyn, 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.