placenamesPollrone
Poll Ruáin
Lewis traced the vicarage’s association with Portnescully and Illud to an act of council.
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
- Poll Ruáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Pollrone · English · main form
Place & story
An ecclesiastical union
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account, headed Poleroan, dated the union of its vicarage with those of Portnescully and Illud to an act of council in 1680. The combined benefice was known as the union of Poleroan. The Corporation of Waterford held the patronage and the rectorial interest. This describes the organisation of church livings, rather than the abolition of Pollrone as a separate civil parish. Lewis also recorded a glebe-house with four and a quarter acres and a private school teaching about sixty children. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Pollrone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Poleroan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.