placenamesCloncurry
Cluain Conaire
Lewis described a pastoral parish on the Royal Canal and recalled an episode at its former castle.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Conaire · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloncurry · English · main form
Place & story
Cattle for distant markets
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Cloncurry, west-north-west of Kilcock, as chiefly pasture land. Large numbers of cattle were fattened for Dublin and English markets. The parish lay on both the Dublin–Galway road and the Royal Canal, while its cultivated acreage used improved farming methods. Lewis also noted about four hundred acres of bog. [2]
A castle short of provisions
Lewis recorded that Colonel Monk defended the Aylmer family’s castle for Parliament in 1643, eventually abandoning it because provisions had run out. He traced the estate’s later purchase from the Aylmers to Sir Nicholas Lawless, subsequently Baron Cloncurry. The account identifies the sequence of ownership without dating that purchase. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Coordinates
- 53.39570, -6.74330
- Logainm ID
- 1160 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloncurry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloncurry, Ikeathy and Oughterany — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-05. How this page was prepared.