placenamesCastlecomer
Caisleán an Chomair
Lewis’s 1837 account describes civic life in the wider town centred here.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán an Chomair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castlecomer · English · main form
Place & story
A market for provisions
Samuel Lewis described Castlecomer’s market as chiefly concerned with provisions and noted purpose-built meat stalls. He listed seven annual fairs, from 27 March to 14 December, including gatherings in May, June, August, September and October. His account portrays a town serving the daily and seasonal trading needs of its surrounding district. These observations concern the wider historical town, rather than a separate population or trading system confined to the modern townland boundary. [2]
Weekly and annual court business
Lewis recorded a yearly county quarter-sessions sitting in June and petty sessions every Friday. A separate manor court, presided over by its seneschal, dealt with small-debt recovery. The town therefore brought several forms of legal business together alongside its market. These are the arrangements described in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Fassadinin
- Civil parish
- Castlecomer
- Coordinates
- 52.80462, -7.21270
- Mapped area
- 0.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1411885 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlecomer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlecomer: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2018-02-12. How this page was prepared.