placenamesClonshire
Cluain Siabhra
Lewis’s 1837 account links two mills with local educational support from J. Dickson.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Siabhra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonshire · English · main form
Place & story
Milling and teaching near Adare
Two flour mills operated at Clonshire in 1837, with most of their produce sent to Limerick, according to Samuel Lewis. He praised their machinery but gave no output figures. J. Dickson, whom Lewis named as the resident of Clounshire House, had built the parish schools and supported them. The schools taught sixty boys and thirty girls between them, recording a different contribution to parish life alongside the mills’ commercial activity. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.54723, -8.84846
- Mapped area
- 6.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1526 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonshire. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clounshire in 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.