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Recorded forms
Gleann Daoile· Irish · main form · validated name
Gleneely· English · main form
Place & story
Grouse Hall and its estate buildings
Grouse Hall at Aghaglassan dates to 1735, according to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Its original seven-bay front is a single storey over a basement, with later extensions behind. Segmental-headed windows and the panelled entrance give the low building a distinctive appearance. The wider group includes farm outbuildings, estate walls and a walled garden. When surveyed in 2008 the house was in poor condition, but retained substantial early fabric, preserving evidence of one of Donegal's early demesne houses.[2]
People & connections
The Ball women and local education
Research by the St Columba's heritage project in nearby Straid identifies Catherine Chichester's marriage to Samuel Ball of Grouse Hall and credits their daughters with establishing Grouse Hall School. The account places this educational work within the wider contribution of women in landed households to local communities. The church survey also records a tradition that Miss Catherine Ball of Grouse Hall funded All Saints. These connections link the estate with schooling and the later church beyond the house itself.[4][3]
All Saints and the chancel never added
All Saints was built in 1856. The church survey attributes its design to Joseph Welland. Green limestone walls, diagonal buttresses and a bellcote give the small Gothic building its character. Pointed windows contain coloured glass and diamond-shaped metal glazing bars. A blocked arch in the eastern gable suggests that a chancel extension was intended but never built. The adjacent rectory and the graveyard complete a group that served the surrounding rural congregation.[3]
Football at Glenview Park
Gleneely Colts was founded in 1980 and plays at Glenview Park. The Inishowen Football League's record lists the club's First Division championship and Fr O'Gara trophy victories in the 2001–02 season, alongside recognition of its reserve side as club of the year. Those honours add a more recent strand to village history, connecting the small Inishowen settlement with the peninsula's organised football competitions and successive generations of local players.[5]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Gleneely — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Gleneely, Donegal — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Gleneely, Donegal
Published census settlement populations
236people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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