placenamesGlenade
Gleann Éada
Parliamentary debate and a Land League gathering place Glenade within the struggles of rural north Leitrim.
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
- Gleann Éada · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glenade · English · main form
Place & story
Four postal days
On 22 June 1880, Major O’Beirne asked Parliament about residents’ request for daily post between Glenade village and Manorhamilton. Postmaster General Fawcett replied that the existing service linked Glenade with Kinlough four days a week and failed to cover its expenses. He offered no prospect of daily delivery. [2]
Brian McEnroy and the Land League
Geraldine McGovern’s research identifies her great-grandfather Brian McEnroy as secretary of the Glenade Land League. He proposed a resolution at a demonstration in Glenade on 8 August 1880. Following a separate protest at Cleighragh, he was convicted of unlawful assembly and sentenced to three months with hard labour in March 1881. Released on 6 June, he resumed his local secretaryship. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Civil parish
- Rossinver
- Coordinates
- 54.38020, -8.29244 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 131531 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glenade. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Postal communication in Leitrim — Commons debate, 22 June 1880 · UK Parliament
- Peaceful protest in turbulent times: the trial of Glenade Land League Secretary Brian McEnroy in Co. Leitrim, 1880–81 · Geraldine McGovern
- Glenade valley landscape, as photographed in 2009 illustration: based on a Glenade Townland by Kenneth Allen. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.