placenamesCurrow
Corra
Mid-century architecture and a local restoration project give Currow distinctive landmarks.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Corra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Currow · English · main form
Place & story
A twentieth-century church
Currow’s Church of the Immaculate Conception was designed by Patrick J. Sheahan. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records a 1957 date and describes a neo-Byzantine building with a copper roof, rounded openings and a tall recessed entrance. Inside, a central vaulted ceiling compartment and a gallery accompany marble fittings around the sanctuary. [2]
A community park project
Mick Galwey returned to his native Currow to open the Killeentierna Wildlife Park on 15 December 2000. Photographer John Reidy’s retrospective account describes a community project planned from 1996, responding to a lake that had become severely overgrown and shallow. The site lay in the presbytery grounds east of the village, and the opening brought together the development group and local residents. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Civil parish
- Killeentierna
- Within
- Ranalough
- Coordinates
- 52.18748, -9.49162 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 127903 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Currow. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception,record21304804 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Post-Card from the Past takes in Currow in2000 · John Reidy / The Maine Valley Post
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.