placenamesBallincuslane
Baile an Chaisleáin
Lewis recorded government road works alongside improvements by local landowners.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form
- Ballincuslane · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of road investment
The new road from Castleisland towards King-William’s-Town was still under construction at government expense when Samuel Lewis described Ballincuslane in 1837. It crossed the parish alongside an older route towards County Cork. Lewis separately credited C. G. Fairfield and Colonel Drummond with planting, drainage and new roads on their property. His account distinguishes the public road project from these landowners’ improvements, rather than treating every road as one completed scheme. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.21262, -9.32468
- Mapped area
- 162.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1051 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballincuslane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballincuslane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.