placenamesCurrane
An Corrán
Corraun House and records of land purchase place Currane within the changing fortunes of a Clew Bay estate.
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
- An Corrán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Currane · English · main form
Place & story
A house overlooking Clew Bay
Corraun House at Bolinglanna was built for Captain Charles Spencer Scrase Dickins of Coolhurst, Sussex, and was standing by 1884. Its original three-bay front was later enlarged to four bays. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage draws attention to its position facing Clew Bay and Clare Island, and to the red sandstone dressings around its door and windows. These carefully worked openings survive within a building substantially altered during the twentieth century. [2]
Tenants seek a purchase
The estate was still a matter of public concern in March 1912. In the House of Commons, William Doris asked about repeated petitions from tenants of the Dickens estate at Currane, who wanted the Congested Districts Board to purchase the property and relieve overcrowded holdings. Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell confirmed that the Board had received several petitions and was corresponding with the trustees’ solicitor. His reply records negotiations in progress; it does not establish a completed sale. [3]
A company formed during the Truce
The West Mayo historical project records that a Currane company was formed during the Truce period, initially within the Newport battalion of the West Mayo Brigade. In January 1922 it transferred to the third battalion of the newly formed North West Mayo brigade. Michael Gallagher is listed as its commanding officer, with Pat Patten and Patrick O’Malley as lieutenants. The unit’s changing affiliation places this small coastal community within the reorganisation of local republican forces after the War of Independence. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Civil parish
- Achill
- Coordinates
- 53.87085, -9.93102 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 132910 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Currane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Corraun House, NIAH 31306503 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Land Purchase (Ireland), 18 March 1912 · UK Parliament
- Currane Company (Achill) · West Mayo historical project
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.