We could not match "GLIN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 14 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "GLIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABBEYFEALE	Limerick	Glin, a distance of 12 miles, was opened after the spring assizes of 1836, previously to which there was scarcely	Lewis:Ireland
  ADARE	Limerick	Glin. In 1581 the castle was again besieged by the Earls of Desmond and Kerry, with a numerous and powerful	Lewis:Ireland
  AGHAVALLIN, or AGHAVALAH	Kerry	Glin, the demesne of Mr. Sandes, on the border of the adjoining parish; there are six pay schools.—See BALLYLONGFORD	Lewis:Ireland
  Glin	Limerick	Glin , seaport vil., Kilfergus par., W. co. Limerick, at the influx of river Glin to the Shannon, 8 miles SW. of Foynes	Bartholomew
  GLIN	Limerick	Glin Castle, the spacious and elegant mansion of the Knight of Glin, finely situated in a richly planted and highly	Lewis:Ireland
  KERRY	Kerry	Glin or Valley; and Thomas Fitzmaurice, son of the late Baron of Lixnaw, or Kerry: Florence McCarty also took secret	Lewis:Ireland
  Kilfergus	Limerick	Kilfergus , par., NW. co. Limerick, 14,207 ac., pop. 3610; contains Glin.	Bartholomew
  Knocklagee	Limerick	Knocklagee , hill, 3 m. SE. of Glin, W. co. Limerick.	Bartholomew
  LIMERICK	Limerick	Glin; the post - towns of Castle-Connell, Shanagolden, Croom, Cahirconlish, Pallasgreine, Adare, and Broadford; and the penny-posts of Abbeyfeale	Lewis:Ireland
  LONGFORD	Longford	Glin. The last-named, which is on the borders of the county eastward of Edgeworthstown, receives several streams from the north	Lewis:Ireland
  LOUGHILL	Limerick	Glin, and the adjoining townland of Ballyoulihan, though both in this parish, pay tithes to the rector of Glin. In the townland	Lewis:Ireland
  MINARD	Kerry	Glin mountain is a pile of large stones, where, according to tradition, the chiefs of former times dispensed justice: this	Lewis:Ireland
  NEWTOWN-SANDES	Kerry	Glin; containing 72 houses and 375 inhabitants. It gives name to the R. C. district, comprising the parishes of Murhir	Lewis:Ireland
  ROBERTSTOWN, or CASTLE-ROBERT	Limerick	Glin. The land is in general good, though in some places interspersed with detached masses of stone; the greater portion	Lewis:Ireland

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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