placenamesCurrans
Na Coirríní
The estate record locates Riverville in Urrohogal and traces its nineteenth-century associations.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Na Coirríní · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Currans · English · main form
Place & story
A modest house in the estate record
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record places Riverville in Urrohogal townland, Currans civil parish. Samuel Lewis named Richard Marshall there in 1837; the university record also cites field-name books describing his residence around 1840 as an oblong thatched house. At Griffith’s Valuation, Charles Blennerhassett held the property in fee, with a recorded value of £9 15s. It later became associated with the Spring family. These entries distinguish successive associations with one named house rather than treating every local estate residence as a large mansion. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Coordinates
- 52.19927, -9.57861
- Mapped area
- 23.79 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1064 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Currans. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Riverville (Currans), property 1961 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.