placenamesKilkea and Moone
Cill Chá agus Maoin
Castledermot’s nineteenth-century fuel supply depended on places beyond its own parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chá agus Maoin · Irish · main form
- Kilkea and Moone · English · main form
Place & story
Turf at a distance, coal through canal towns
In his 1837 account of Castledermot, in the barony of Kilkea and Moone, Samuel Lewis reported that the parish had no bog. He placed the nearest source of turf thirteen miles away. Coal came from Carlow or Athy, the towns providing the nearest canal access. This describes Castledermot parish’s supply problem, rather than an absence of bog throughout the barony. Lewis also recorded large quantities of grey granite being quarried in the parish, alongside these incoming fuel supplies. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilkea and Moone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castle-Dermot: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.