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Croom

Cromadh

A riverside residence and a surviving flour mill connect the parish with the Lyons family’s business interests.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of The roofless old water mill at Croom, County Limerick, as photographed in April 2018.
Illustration, The roofless old water mill at Croom, County Limerick, as photographed in April 2018
Recorded locationCroom52.51940° N · 8.72324° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Cromadh · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Croom · English · main form

Place & story

An eighteenth-century mill

The flour mill on Church Road is dated 1788, with an inscription bearing the initials D.L. and that date on an entrance pier. Its L-shaped, four-storey structure was built in rubble limestone, with stone window sills, timber lintels and iron strengthening plates. The architectural survey records a waterwheel on the eastern side and remains of the mill race. It identifies the mill as a surviving example of the machinery and buildings once serving the local community. [2]

People & connections

The Lyons residence

Croom House was a Lyons family home during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the early-1850s valuation, James D. Lyons’s house was assessed at £48 and his nearby flour mill at £75; he held the property from John Croker. The University of Galway catalogue also records a different use in 1943, when an Irish Tourist Association surveyor described the house as a military post. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Limerick
Barony
Coshma
Coordinates
52.51940, -8.72324
Mapped area
54.86 km²
Logainm ID
1529 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Croom. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Church Road flour mill, NIAH21828006 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Croom House, property2562 · University of Galway Landed Estates Database
  4. The roofless old water mill at Croom, County Limerick, as photographed in April 2018 illustration: based on a Old Water Mill, Croom by PAUL FARMER. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.