placenamesGlinsk
Glinsce
The coastal townland’s census return and a field survey preserve different traces of its past.
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 · validated name
- Glinsk · English · main form
Place & story
The signal station by the summit
Stuart Rathbone’s 2017 field account places Glensky signal station just south of Glinsk’s summit. It describes a low tower ruin within a rectangular enclosure, at least forty-three metres long and about twenty-eight metres wide. [2]
One empty house in 1901
The 1901 census lists one uninhabited house in Glinsk, with no population entered. Its area was 2,050 acres, one rood and four perches. The townland appears in Kilcommon parish, Erris barony and Muingnabo electoral division, within Knocknalower dispensary district and Belmullet Poor Law Union. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glinsk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glensky Signal Station, County Mayo, field account published 5 March 2017 · Stuart Rathbone, The Irish Signal Stations
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Mayo, Table VII, printed page 37 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Company, Dublin, 1902
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Coniferous forest below Glinsk, County Mayo illustration: based on a Coniferous forest below Glinsk by Oliver Dixon. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.