placenamesGlanmore
An Gleann Mór
Glanmore’s former school, surviving oak woodland and mountain routes give this valley east of Waterville a distinctive local history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- An Gleann Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glanmore · English · main form
- Glenmore · English · main form
Place & story
The old school’s second life
Glenmore National School was built in 1893 and later became a museum and heritage centre. Local visitor information identifies it as Teach Bhríde, run by the community, on the route leading inland from Waterville beside the lakes. Its reuse gives a former place of primary education a continuing role in preserving and explaining the valley’s past. The school building remains a recognisable landmark in accounts of the area. [2] [3]
An older woodland landscape
A September 2007 botanical survey recorded eleven hectares of woodland at Graigues and Tooreenyduneen, on slopes crossed by streams flowing into Isknagahiny Lough. Sessile oak dominated, with birch, holly and hazel also present. The survey confirmed woodland on the nineteenth-century maps and recorded Irish spurge, St Patrick’s cabbage and Wilson’s filmy fern. It also noted sheep grazing and sheltering among the trees, documenting the overlap between woodland habitat and the surrounding farming landscape. [4]
Glanmore in an early walking account
C. P. Crane’s 1907 guide to Kerry describes the approach to Glenmore along the southern side of Lough Currane and beside Isknagahiny Lake. Beyond the road, he found a rough track reaching farmhouses with fuchsia hedges, followed by a narrow mountain route towards Sneem. The account records a valley connected to its neighbours by paths as well as roads, and offers an early visitor’s description of its inhabited landscape. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane
- Within
- Graigues
- Coordinates
- 51.81919, -10.05308
- Logainm ID
- 1166194 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glanmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glenmore Museum and Heritage Centre, formerly Glenmore Primary School · The Ring of Kerry
- Glenmore route and Teach Bhríde · Visit Waterville / Comhchoiste Ghaeltacht Uibh Rathaigh
- National Survey of Native Woodlands 2003–2008, volume 3 d, site 1737: Graigues · Philip Perrin and colleagues / National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Kerry,1907, page 131: Waterville to Sneem over the mountains · C. P. Crane
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-06-23. How this page was prepared.