placenamesGlinsk
Glinsce
Maps and estate records distinguish a vanished residence from the surviving fortified ruin.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Glinsce · Irish · main form
- Glinsk · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings on the map
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates research identifies both Glinsk Castle and a substantial neighbouring house on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map. By the 1890s, the mapped house had disappeared while the castle remained. Griffith’s Valuation recorded buildings at the site as a herd’s house, valued at £1 15s and held by Allan Pollok. [2]
The estate changes hands
The Burke family’s Glinsk and Creggs estates were advertised for sale in 1853 and purchased by Pollok. The Glinsk holding comprised 3,361 acres in Ballynakill parish, distinct from the larger Creggs estate in Kilbegnet. The surviving castle therefore belonged to a much wider landed property whose ownership and residential arrangements changed during the nineteenth century. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill
- Coordinates
- 53.65084, -8.42951
- Mapped area
- 2.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 18933 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glinsk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glinsk House, property 948 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Burke (Glinsk), estate 1163 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-10-14. How this page was prepared.