An Gleann Garbh

An Gleann Garbh (Glengarriff) derives from Irish gleann, meaning glen or valley, and garbh, meaning rough, together describing the rugged landscape of the Beara Peninsula in County Cork. The townland appears in historical records with varying spellings, including Glangaruffe (1659), Glangariff (1720), and Glingarune (1811), documenting changes in orthography across four centuries of colonial ad...