placenamesO'Brennan
Uamh Bréanainn
Lewis recorded cultivation spreading onto mountain ground and a substantial flour-milling enterprise in 1837.
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
- Uamh Bréanainn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- O'Brennan · English · main form
Place & story
Mountain ground being cultivated
Samuel Lewis described much of O’Brennan parish as coarse mountain pasture and bog in 1837. John Cuthbert, a substantial local proprietor, was then reclaiming part of the mountain tract and bringing it into cultivation. Lewis’s account places the parish on the old Tralee–Castleisland road and records work in progress, without measuring the land Cuthbert had already improved. [2]
John Mac Carthy’s mill
The parish also contained a large flour mill belonging to John Mac Carthy. Lewis named Edward Gorham as resident at O’Brennan House. His short account distinguishes these figures and their associations, but does not give the mill’s output, workforce or construction date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.30002, -9.56986
- Mapped area
- 26.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1119 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — O'Brennan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- O’Brennan — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-02-09. How this page was prepared.