placenamesKillehenny
Cill Eithne
Lewis linked coastal materials with farming and tidal transport on the Cashen.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Eithne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killehenny · English · main form
Place & story
A supply route from the shore
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Killehenny records the use of seaweed and sea sand as agricultural manure. His separate description of Ballybunnian explains a means of moving those materials inland: lighters travelled up the Cashen with the tide, carrying sand and seaweed for that purpose. He gives their upriver journey as eight miles. The two accounts connect farming in this coastal district with a tidal transport route, without identifying the individual boats, their operators or particular farms receiving the cargoes. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Coordinates
- 52.50887, -9.66410
- Mapped area
- 20.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1094 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killehenny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeheny or Killahinny: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Ballybunnian or Ballybunyan: 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.