placenamesTempleglentan
Teampall an Ghleanntáin
Templeglentan, commonly known as Templeglantine, has an older church site, a nineteenth-century chapel village and a precise connection with the translator Max Arthur MacAuliffe.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall an Ghleanntáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Templeglentan · English · main form
Place & story
The older burial ground
Templeglantine West’s graveyard occupies an older church site. The diocesan heritage project describes a small wall marking the former west gable after the church ruins had disappeared. It also records distinctive Celtic-cross headstones made by local craftsman Mossy Wrenn, with green glass filling the spaces around the cross. This older burial place served families from Tournafulla as well as Templeglantine. [2]
Holy Trinity and the chapel village
Holy Trinity Church is dated 1829. Its stonework combines dressed rubble walls with limestone corners and window dressings; the windows include paired openings with cinquefoil tracery. Inside, the inventory records a scissor-braced timber roof, gallery and marble reredos. A porch added around 1930 and the separate belfry in the grounds are later features, rather than parts of a single building campaign. [3]
A separate parish and community institutions
The Catholic parish was separated from Monagea in 1864, after the church had already been built. Later civic milestones included the opening of the community centre by Bishop Jeremiah Newman in 1977. That same year Templeglantine received a Glór na nGael trophy for promoting the Irish language. A new graveyard behind the parish church opened in September 1983. [2]
Max Arthur MacAuliffe’s local connection
Max Arthur MacAuliffe moved from Monagea to Templeglantine as a child when his father became master of the local school. His later career in India led to his study and translation of Sikh scripture, culminating in the six-volume The Sikh Religion in 1909. In September 2019 Limerick City and County Council and representatives of the Sikh community commemorated him at a plaque-unveiling ceremony in Templeglantine Community Centre. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templeglentan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templeglantine Parish: Diocesan Heritage Project · Diocese of Limerick
- Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity, NIAH 21904303 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Plaque unveiled to West Limerick man honouring his contribution to Sikh Culture and Religion,11 September 2019 · Limerick City and County Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-10. How this page was prepared.