placenamesBredagh Cross
Crois na Bréadaí
A rural West Cork crossroads with documented revolutionary organisation and a later history of concrete production.
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
- Crois na Bréadaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Bredagh Cross · English · main form
Place & story
A local company in the revolutionary period
Bredagh Cross appears in Daniel O’Driscoll’s Bureau of Military History statement as one of the companies belonging to the Skibbereen Battalion when the Drimoleague company was formed in 1917. Membership lists preserved in the Military Service Pensions Collection give the unit a wider local geography. They include men from Bredagh, Lissane, Dreeny, Bawnahow and other neighbouring places, showing the countryside covered by a company bearing the crossroads’ name. [2] [3]
Concrete production at the crossroads
Drimoleague Concrete Works moved its depot to Bredagh Cross in 1980, installing block-making equipment and a new ready-mix plant. The business had begun in 1970 as Kealkill Sand and Gravel, founded by Bob Murnane and Dinny O’Shea. Its own history describes the move as a way of reaching a larger West Cork market. Subsequent quarry operations developed at separate sites, including Coolbane in 2002; the Bredagh Cross depot remained part of that expanding industrial network. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague
- Coordinates
- 51.62423, -9.22755 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 129457 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bredagh Cross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Witness statement 1352, Daniel O’Driscoll, page 3 · Bureau of Military History, Military Archives
- Bredagh Cross company membership lists, pages 29–30, MA-MSPC-RO-67 · Military Service Pensions Collection, Military Archives
- About Us: company history · Drimoleague Concrete Works
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.