placenamesCecilstown
Baile an Bhriotaigh
Cecilstown in Castlemagner parish was a small roadside village where the schoolhouse once doubled as a courtroom.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Bhriotaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cecilstown · English · main form
Place & story
The village in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Cecilstown in 1837 as a village of 331 people and 46 houses, most of them thatched, on the road between Mallow and Kanturk. It had a national school, a police station and a penny-post connection with Mallow. Petty sessions met in the schoolhouse every Monday. Although the village held a patent for four annual fairs, Lewis reported that these were no longer taking place. [2]
Cecilstown Lodge
Cecilstown Lodge was associated with the Wrixon family in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. William Wrixon occupied it in 1837, and Thomas Heffernan leased it from the 1840s. Members of the Jones family later lived there. The lodge was burned in June 1921 during the War of Independence; the University of Galway’s estate record notes that a house remains on the site. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Civil parish
- Castlemagner
- Within
- Cecilstown
- Coordinates
- 52.17629, -8.78947 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412755 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cecilstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cecilstown — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Cecilstown Lodge, property 2866 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.