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Glenullin
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Location within Northern Ireland | |
• Belfast | 50 miles |
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Country | Northern Ireland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Coleraine |
Postcode district | BT51 |
Dialling code | 028, +44 28 |
Police | Northern Ireland |
Fire | Northern Ireland |
Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
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Glenullin was previously a rural area but has now expanded to become a small village in a valley between the villages of Garvagh, Swatragh and Dungiven, and lies in the borough of Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The nearest city is Derry which is 27 miles away. 'The Glen', as it is often known, is not an officially recognised administrative division but there is a strong local identity and an active community sector. Although the area has few amenities, the local Primary school, St Patrick's & St Joseph's Federated Primary School, [1] [2] and St Joseph's Catholic Church have particular prominence in the life of Glenullin.
Glenullin was one of the first areas in the county to organise Gaelic games and the local club, John Mitchel's GAC, based at Seán Ó Maoláin Park, has a number of football and camogie teams. They previously had hurling teams but were unable to manage them correctly and they fell apart.
In the basin of the valley there is an ombrotrophic raised bog which, having suffered severe ecological damage by commercial peat extraction in 1994, is now a protected site. Much of Glenullin bog that remains today would have been familiar to the different cultures that have populated the valley, including the pre-Christian Iron Age and the people of the Middle Ages who built forts, raths and ritual cairns on prominent locations on hillsides and drumlins. Over recent centuries, the inhabitants of the single-storey, thatched vernacular dwellings that dotted the valley sides harvested turf from the bog, revealing the stumps of the oaks that once filled the valley. [3] In 1922 an IRA volunteer was buried in the bog. The burial was done at night with a full colour party which indicates it was a respected volunteer. There are no details of his name or burial location but the story has been passed down through generations of the MacNiocaill family (Phaidi Hamish).
The original football pitch in Glenullin was Tinkers Park in Coolcoscreghan townland, on the junction of the Lisnascreghog and Glen roads. This field is now livestock grazing. The original GAC meeting hall is a green metal building with a red roof on the Glenullin Road at the junction with Lisnascreghog Road. The current football pitch beside the council sink estate in Curraghmore was opened in 1973. A new GAC training ground was opened in 2014 in a field beside the Brockagh River, opposite the current pitch.
In older times, the Ancient Order of Hibernians played prominence in life in Glenullin. Their old meeting hall can be found in the area known as The Cutting near Brockagh Houses on the Glen Road.
There is an old church in Glenullin which can be found on Temple Road, at the Junction with Hillside Road. Although the building is now ruins, the surrounding area was tidied up to allow people to enter the old church grounds and pray.
On the junction of Churchtown Road and Ballyrogan Road, Errigal Old Church can be found. This was founded by St Adamnan in the 7th century. The site now consists of the ruined remains of a medieval church in the centre of a walled graveyard, a rock-souterrain and a ballaun stone. The unusual Gortnamoyagh Inauguration Stone, featuring two carved footprints and a staff mark, was used until the 16th century during local Gaelic Chieftain Inauguration ceremonies.
Glenullin is in the civil parish of Errigal and in the Catholic parish of Garvagh in the (Diocese of Derry). Glenullin covers about half the total parish area, the remaining being in the village of Garvagh and the neighbouring hamlet of Ballerin. [4]
Dungiven is a small town, townland and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is near the main A6 Belfast to Derry road, which bypasses the town. It lies where the rivers Roe, Owenreagh and Owenbeg meet at the foot of the 1,525 ft (465 m) Benbradagh. Nearby is the Glenshane Pass, where the road rises to over 1,000 ft (300 m). It had a population of 3,288 people in the 2011 Census, an increase of 10% over the 2001 population of 2,993. It is within Causeway Coast and Glens district council area.
Ballygawley or Ballygawly is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is about 20 kilometres southwest of Dungannon, near the meeting of the A5 Derry–Dublin and A4 Dungannon–Enniskillen roads.
Garvagh is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is on the banks of the Agivey River, 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of Coleraine on the A29 route. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,288. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.
Ballinderry is a small civil and ecclesiastical parish on both sides of the County Londonderry / County Tyrone border in Northern Ireland. It is a rural parish of about 350 houses and lies on the western shores of Lough Neagh.
Eoin Bradley is a Gaelic footballer and association footballer. He plays the former for the Glenullin club and, previously, for the Derry county team. With Glenullin he won a Derry Senior Football Championship and with Derry he won a National League title. He also plays association football as a striker for Glenavon.
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John Mitchel's GAC Glenullin is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Glenullin, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of the Derry GAA. They currently cater for both Gaelic football and camogie.
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Ballerin is a small village between Garvagh and Ringsend in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is located within Causeway Coast and Glens district. It includes Saint Columba's Catholic primary school and Saint Mary's Catholic church.
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Gerard O'Kane is a Gaelic footballer who plays for the Derry county team, with whom he has won a National League title.
Liam Bradley, commonly known by his nickname Baker, is a Gaelic football manager and former player for Glenullin and the Derry county team. He twice managed the senior Antrim county team between October 2008 and August 2012 and from November 2013 until 2014.
Gabriel Bradley is a former Gaelic footballer from Glenullin, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Bradley played for the Derry county team in the 1970s and 1980s. He won two Ulster Senior Football Championships with the county. Bradley played club football for John Mitchel's Glenullin and won the Derry Senior Football Championship with the club.