placenamesClogherbrien
Cloichear Bhraoin
Lewis recorded two supplies linking the farming parish with Tralee Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cloichear Bhraoin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Clogherbrien · English · main form
Place & story
Manure and fuel from different places
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Clogherbrien parish in County Kerry describes land chiefly under tillage, with seaweed widely used as manure. Fuel came from farther away: he recorded no bog within the parish and identified Castlegregory, across on the southwestern side of Tralee Bay, as its source of turf. He did not specify how the turf was transported or how much was supplied. [2]
A burial ground still used
The parish lay beside the road from Tralee towards the Spa. Although its church was ruined, Lewis described continuing use of the roadside burial ground and noted several well-kept tombs. His account distinguishes an active place of burial from the condition of the church building, without dating the ruin or attributing the tombs to named families. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.29148, -9.74842
- Mapped area
- 13.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1131 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogherbrien. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clogherbrien: 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.