placenamesCallan
Callainn
An 1836 Act clarified how Callan’s town and liberties contributed to public works and county charges.
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
- Callainn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Callan · English · main form
Place & story
The grand jury’s powers
Section 154 of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1836 addressed doubts over the Kilkenny grand jury’s authority in Callan’s town and liberties. It confirmed that the grand jury could authorise public works there and treated the town and liberties as a barony for public works, the raising of money and other matters within the grand jury’s powers. [2]
A temporary basis for county charges
Until a valuation under Irish valuation legislation was made, the Act assigned Callan’s town and liberties an assumed area of 3,600 acres for calculating their share of county rates and charges. This was a statutory basis for apportioning expenses, rather than a statement of the barony’s surveyed extent. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Callan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1836, section 154 · Parliament of the United Kingdom; official Irish Statute Book reproduction
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.