Information about Owenglen River

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Owenglen River
Irish Form of Name:
Abhainn Glinne
Translation:
river of the valley
Civil Parish:
Omey
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Owenglen River
Abhainn Glinne
Abhainn Gline
Glen River Inhabitants
Owínn Ghlinne (Ir.) Inhabitants
Owen Glin Roderic O’Flaherty
Description:
This river is about 36 feet wide and very shallow in dry weather with a rocky and gravely bottom. N rainy weather, however, it sends forth a vast body of water with tremendous violence overflowing its banks in some parts to a great extent. Its fish are only a few small trout in consequence of a great fall at the mouth of the harbour which prevents any getting up.
Situation:
Rises in the parishof Moyrus and at the S.E. part of the parish of Omey forming the boundary between same leaving the former to the S. and the latter to the N flows in a westerly course, washes the town of Clifden, and after a course 5 ½ miles falls into Ardbear Bay.

Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Owenglen River is in Tievebaun townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Owenglen River
Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service
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