Glenville's country-house history includes two brothers who helped preserve Irish music and literature. A stone handball alley records another part of village life.
Illustration, Glenville Mass Rock near Glenville, County Cork
⊕Recorded locationGlenville52.04586° N · 8.42319° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
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Recorded forms
Gleann an Phréacháin· Irish · main form · validated name
Glenville· English · main form
Place & story
A village on the hill
Samuel Lewis's 1837 description places Glenville on a hill in Ardnageehy parish. Alongside its houses were two churches, parish schools, a police station and a dispensary. These institutions made the village a centre for education, worship and medical care in the surrounding countryside.[2]
The Manor
The Manor preserves several generations of country-house building. Its long, two-storey range dates from 1887 and adjoins an older, three-storey house of about 1780. A pediment marks the centre of the later front, while projecting bay windows and a round-headed entrance give the facade much of its character. The property passed from the Coppinger family to Dr Edward Hudson in the late eighteenth century. The Hudson connection links this architectural landmark to nineteenth-century Irish cultural scholarship.[3]
People & connections
Two brothers and Irish cultural revival
Henry Hudson, who inherited the Glenville estate and died there in 1889, combined dentistry with collecting Irish music. His surviving manuscripts contain 870 items, including material copied from collections that were subsequently lost. He was musical editor of The Citizen, which published more than a hundred tunes between 1841 and 1843. His brother William Elliott Hudson edited the magazine and financed Irish-language scholarship, including the work of the Celtic Society. William died in 1853 and was buried in Ardnageehy churchyard near the family's Glenville home.[4][5]
The village handball alley
At the southern end of the village, a three-walled stone handball alley dates from around 1900. Its rubble walls and open rectangular court give it a very different scale from the Manor. The architectural inventory recorded the alley beside the sports centre in 2007, retaining a distinctive place for recreation on the village street.[6]
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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Glenville — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Glenville, Cork
Published census settlement populations
531people · 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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