Glangevlin
Gleann Ghaibhle | |
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Village | |
.jpg) The R206 road through the village | |
  Glangevlin Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°11′33″N 7°53′29″W / 54.19244°N 7.8915°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Cavan |
| Elevation | 127 m (417 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Glangevlin (Irish: Gleann Ghaibhle, meaning 'glen of the fork')[1] is a village in the northwest of County Cavan, Ireland. It is in the townlands of Gub (Glangevlin) and Tullytiernan, at the junction of the R200 and R207 regional roads. It is surrounded by the Cuilcagh Mountains and borders the counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh.[2] A large stone known as 'Maguire's chair' is deposited on the right hand side of the road, roughly 4 miles from Glangevlin village, so-called because it was supposedly the inauguration site of the Maguire clan in medieval times.
Glangevlin has a strong traditional Irish background and Irish was spoken up until the 1930s, one of the last places in Cavan where this was commonplace.[3]
Glangevlin is also well known to have been the last place in Ireland to have a glacier lasting from the Ice age. The Cuilcagh mountains were the last affected part of the island of Ireland as well as the most western part of Europe bar Iceland.[citation needed]
- ^ "Gleann Ghaibhle / Glangevlin". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Vol. I. S. Lewis & Co. 1837. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
- ^ Supplement. Seanchas Ghleann Ghaibhle: Glangevlin Folk-Lore, by Éamonn Ó Tuathail, in Béaloideas Iml. 4, Uimh 4 (1934), pp. i, iii–v, vii–xxxviii, 1–64 (100 pages)