placenamesCroagh
Cróch
Lewis records housing and recurring allowances for six widows from the parish.
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
- Cróch · Irish · main form · validated name
- Croagh · English · main form
Place & story
Homes supported by an estate
John Walcott built three almshouses at Ballylin for six poor widows of Croagh parish, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Walcott had lived at Clifton near Bristol but came originally from Croagh House. His endowment provided each resident with one shilling weekly and ten shillings at both Easter and Christmas, charged on his Croagh estate. Lewis describes an arrangement for continuing support, without giving the almshouses’ construction date or the names of the women then living there. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.53932, -8.86849
- Mapped area
- 29.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1528 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Croagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Croagh: 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.