Clonallan Glebe, County Down

Origin

Clonallan + Eng. glebe 'land belonging / yielding revenue to a church'; earlier Ir. Baile na gCléireach ‘townland of the clerics’

Background

References to Clonallan in the sources are normally either to the parish or to the church itself. The lands which surrounded that church, the basis of the modern townland Clonallan Glebe, were known in earlier times as Ballynegleragh, Irish Baile na gCléireach ‘townland of the clerics’. The name of the parish of Clonallan derives from Irish Cluain Dalláin ‘(Saint) Dallán’s meadow’.

In two of the sources Ballynegleragh is recorded as having an alias Tonnycreman (CPR Jas I 396a) or Tommemicknemarro (CPR Jas I 191b). These may ultimately be two corrupt forms of the one name, but it is impossible to suggest on such little evidence what the original name may have been.

References

Ó Mainnín, M. (1992): Place-Names of Northern Ireland vol. I p. 72

Additional Information

See the parish of Clonallan for a discussion and historical forms of that name

Historical name form

Old Form	Ref. Date	Reference
Ballynacleragh	1435	Reg. Swayne 161
Ballynegleragh al. Tonnycreman	1609	CPR Jas I 396a
Ballynecleragh al. Tommemicknemarro, town of	1611	CPR Jas I 191b
Clonallan, the Town of, als Ballinegleragh	1657	Inq. Down (Reeves1) 89
Conallan [td.]	1659c	Census 1659 74
Glannallan belonging to ye Church of Clannallen	1661	BSD 112
Clonallan Glebe	1806	Civ. & Ecc. Top. (OSNB) E42 no. 100
Clonallan Glebe	1810	Wm. Map (OSNB) E42 no. 100
Clonallen Glebe	1829	Newry Tel. (OSNB) E42 no. 100
Clonallan Glebe	1830c	Bnd. Sur. (OSNB) E42 no. 100
perhaps Tom mic na marbh ""bush of the son of the dead"	2003	HMC replies HMCsep03
Clonalle [td.]	1657c	Hib. Reg. Up. Iveagh
Clonalle [td.]	1672c	Hib. Del. Down
Clonallon, Glebe of	1800	Map Hall Estates fol. 32

Barony: Iveagh Up., Up. Half
Parish: Clonallan
Parish in 1851: Clonallan
Townland: None
Place name ID: 15026
Place name type: T