placenamesGalloon and Islands
Gabhal Liúin
Newtownbutler’s former Methodist meeting house continued serving the community through education.
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
- Gabhal Liúin · Irish · main form
- Galloon and Islands · English · main form
Place & story
Free teaching in the older building
At Newtownbutler in Galloon parish, Samuel Lewis recorded a recently built Primitive Wesleyan Methodist meeting house in 1837. J. Butler Danvers had paid half its cost. The previous meeting house had become a school offering free daily instruction and Sunday schooling. A national school also operated in the Catholic chapel, alongside a parochial school. The account shows several arrangements for teaching, including the reuse of a religious building rather than its abandonment. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Clankelly
- Barony
- Coole
- Barony
- Knockninny
- Coordinates
- 54.18125, -7.37197 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 102.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58930 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Galloon and Islands. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Newtown-Butler: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-01-06. How this page was prepared.