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Glasheen

An Glaisín

The west Cork townland is listed separately within the Inchigeelagh census district.

Recorded locationGlasheen51.86684° N · 9.05212° 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

  • An Glaisín · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Glasheen · English · main form

Place & story

Eighteen inhabitants in 1911

Glasheen had eighteen inhabitants in 1911, eleven male and seven female, in three occupied houses. Its population had been twenty-one in 1891 and twenty-two in 1901, with four houses at each earlier census. The table places it in Inchigeelagh parish, electoral division and dispensary district, Muskerry West barony and Macroom Poor Law Union. Its area was 129 acres, two roods and nine perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cork
Civil parish
Inchigeelagh
Coordinates
51.86684, -9.05212
Mapped area
0.52 km²
Logainm ID
11419 ↗

People & family history

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

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Glasheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Cork, Table VII, printed page 96 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 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.