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Glenelly Valley or simply Glenelly (from the ga, Gleann Eallaigh meaning the valley of the cattle, (a sheltered place where cattle were grazed)) is the longest valley in the
Glenelly Valley or simply Glenelly (from the ga, Gleann Eallaigh meaning the valley of the cattle, (a sheltered place where cattle were grazed)) is the longest valley in the Sperrin Mountains
The Sperrins or Sperrin Mountains () are a range of mountains in Northern Ireland and one of the largest upland areas in Northern Ireland. The range stretches from Strabane eastwards to Slieve Gallion in Desertmartin and north towards Limavady ...
in County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional Counties of Ireland, counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an admini ...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
. It lies within the Sperrin Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and is also in an Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA).
In the year 858AD, Aed Finnliath mac Néill, king of Ailech, heavily defeated a large Viking army inland at Glenn Foichle (Glenelly, in the barony of Upper Strabane). They may have come from Lough Neagh and the Bann.
Irish Language
Glenelly was home to some of the last native Irish speakers in County Tyrone. The dialect was studied by Gearóid Stockman andHeinrich Wagner
Heinrich Wagner (9 August 1888, Hamburg – 24 June 1959, Hamburg) was a German chess master.
In 1920/21, he won in Kiel. In 1921, he took 8th in Hamburg (the 21st DSB Congress, Erhardt Post won), and won in Hamburg (''Quadrangular''). I ...
who noted that "Glenelly Irish is closer to Donegal Irish than the other Tyrone dialects".Stockman & Wagner 1965:211, https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/leabharthai/Stockman&Wagner.pdf Their findings were published in ''Lochlann'', volume 3, in 1965.
References
{{County Tyrone Landforms of County Tyrone Valleys of Northern Ireland