placenamesGraney
Gráine
Archaeological monitoring recorded a mill-race crossing Graney East and successive fabric at the mill in Graney West.
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
- Gráine · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Graney · English · main form
Place & story
Water carried between the townlands
During quarry monitoring in 1999, Martin E. Byrne recorded a dry but relatively intact mill-race crossing part of Graney East and leading towards a mill in Graney West. The channel was stone-lined, with remains of a sluice where it joined the Graney River. Byrne’s account also describes a 1799 date stone among the mill ruins, lower courses from a previous structure and projecting foundations from an earlier building. The date stone therefore does not establish the age of all the surviving fabric. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Coordinates
- 52.89567, -6.80022
- Mapped area
- 21.39 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1175 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Graney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 1999:383: Graney East, 99E0052 · Martin E. Byrne; Excavations.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-01. How this page was prepared.