placenamesGlebe
The ruined church near Cookstown preserves evidence of more than one building campaign.
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
- Glebe · English · main form
Place & story
Medieval foundations and later alterations
The Department for Communities dates Derryloran’s surviving ruined church to around 1622. Excavation showed that its eastern end rests on foundations of the medieval parish church, and some earlier stonework was reused. Different window details at the western end suggest that the long, narrow building was extended during the eighteenth century, when its porch and bellcote were added. It remained the parish church until 1822, when worship moved to a new building in the town. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Derryloran
- Coordinates
- 54.63091, -6.75396
- Logainm ID
- 64216 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glebe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derryloran Church, TYR 038:019: official heritage-site account · Department for Communities
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.