Gleann Cholm Cille

Glencolumbkille takes its name from Saint Colm Cille (Columba), one of Ireland's three patron saints, who established a monastic foundation in the valley in the sixth century. The district's earliest recorded names were simply Glend and Senglenn (Old Glen), with the current name Gleann Cholm Cille emerging in the fifteenth century and first fully documented in 1532 in Manus O'Donnell's Life of ...