placenamesCloghane
An Clochán
Lewis described seasonal fishing work alongside seaweed manure, water mills and trade with Limerick.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Clochán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghane · English · main form
Place & story
Work between land and sea
The fishery in Cloghane parish employed 250 people during its season in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account; at other times they worked in agriculture. Yawls and canoes were the principal fishing craft. A small pier had been built by the Fishery Board, and sea manure was landed there. Lewis also identified seaweed as the principal manure used on the parish’s cultivated ground. [2]
Butter and water-powered mills
Lewis recorded large quantities of butter being shipped in hookers to Limerick. Within the parish, a flour mill and a tucking mill both used water power. The account connects coastal transport with farming and milling, without supplying annual cargo totals or identifying the precise mill sites. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.22657, -10.18381 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 71.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1063 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloghane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.