Glenullin has had several different names in earlier times. It has been called Gleann Dubh Rua - the red and black glen which probably referred to the colours of the landscape. Others have called it Gleann Ullain, the Glen of Uilla Mac Fionn, an ancient Irish hero reputed to be buried in the area. Perhaps the most romantic and the most popular title is Gleann An lolar -THE EAGLE'S GLEN.
Glenullin is a glen or valley, a basin shaped area of land surrounded on all sides by rounded mountain tops which were scoured by the great glaciers which covered the area ten thousand years ago. Many of these mountains have beautiful names such as Ben Bradagh, Gortnamoyagh, Smuldegon, Bouveil, Minnieoran, Pollengorn, Carntogher and Coolcoscreghan.
The area around Glenullin has been inhabited since the early Stone Age. Ancient stone circles remind us of Stone Age burial sites. Culbane stone circle is older than the famous Stonehenge and yet many travellers in the area remain unaware of its existence. Glenullin is littered with prehistoric raths, stone age villages, well preserved passage graves, bronze age cairns, ring forts, remnants of pre Christian and Christian religious sites and sites of mass rocks where Glenullin Catholics braved the elements to worship in the mountains during the penal days.
Glenullin raised bog is one of the best preserved examples in Ireland of this type of structure.

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The bog is the centre of Glenullin, an area of rough heath land laid down over thousands of years and containing plants and grasses rarely seen in any other part of the country.
For all these reasons Glenullin is a place of great interest. 

ver the years many Glenullin natives have been forced by poverty or other social circumstances to emigrate to the four corners of the globe. We hope that they may get a copy of this booklet so that they can be reminded of what they left behind and may be excited by these memories so that they can return if only for a holiday to see how Glenullin is today. The booklet should also serve as an educational aid for teachers and scholars. Only those who appreciate the area in which they live will be able to understand why Glenullin is as it is today. Only they will recognise how some things have changed, how other things have stayed still for centuries and how parts of their locality will live long after they and their children no longer make a mark on the land that forms Glenullin.