placenamesGlynn
An Gleann
Saint Moling’s Church and Scoil Moling give this Carlow settlement a long institutional history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Gleann · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Glynn · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Moling’s Church
Saint Moling’s Catholic Church at Glynn dates from about 1815. Its pointed-arch openings belong to the original cruciform design. Around 1875, builders added side aisles, an arcaded crossing and a belfry. Another renovation about a century later introduced projecting porches and reordered the interior. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records it in Bahana townland. [2]
Education at Glynn
Scoil Moling traces its establishment to 1829. Its twentieth-century building opened in 1942 with two classrooms, gaining another in 1964 and a prefabricated room in 1995. A renovated and extended school opened on 1 September 2021, followed by a new playground in November 2023. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Saint Mullin's Lower
- Civil parish
- Saint Mullin's
- Coordinates
- 52.50297, -6.90746
- Logainm ID
- 102007 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glynn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Moling’s Catholic Church, Bahana, Glynn — NIAH 10302601 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- About our school — Scoil Moling Glynn · Scoil Moling Glynn
- Saint Moling’s Church at Glynn, as photographed in 2019 illustration: based on a Glynn Church by kevin higgins. 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 2026-06-09. How this page was prepared.