placenamesKnockanure
Cnoc an Iúir
Lewis distinguished the working Catholic chapel from the older church ruin.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cnoc an Iúir · Irish · main form
- Knockanure · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and worship in 1837
Knockanure’s Catholic chapel was a small thatched building in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description, with a school attached. That school and a separate private school educated about eighty children between them. Lewis also recorded the ruins of the old church within the burial ground. These were distinct features of the parish: the operating chapel and its school should not be confused with the older ruined church. He supplied no separate pupil total for either school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Coordinates
- 52.46066, -9.37571
- Mapped area
- 24.02 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1110 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockanure. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Knockanure, 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.