Na Gleannta

Na Gleannta ("the glens") takes its name from the Irish word gleann, meaning valley, descriptive of the two glens where the town developed at the confluence of the Owenea and Stranaglough rivers, northwest of the Bluestack Mountains. Evidence of Bronze Age settlement survives in the form of dolmens, standing stones, and earthen ringforts scattered throughout the parish of Inishkeel, of which Gl...