placenamesCorcomohide
Corca Mhuichead
Lewis’s 1837 entry describes an ecclesiastical union spanning three named parishes.
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
- Corca Mhuichead · Irish · main form · validated name
- Corcomohide · English · main form
Place & story
The extent of Lewis’s account
Samuel Lewis used Corcomohide for an ecclesiastical union embracing Castletown-Conyers, Drumcolloher and Kilmeedy in 1837. His figures cover that combined church organisation, rather than establishing the extent of the present civil parish record. This distinction matters when reading his account of local education. [2]
Money, a house and a garden
Within the union, Mr Stevelly contributed £10 annually to one public school. Colonel White subscribed ten guineas to another and had provided a house and garden. Lewis reported about 150 children across those two schools, alongside roughly 750 in twelve private schools. He did not identify the two supported schools’ precise locations in this entry. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.40957, -8.79460
- Mapped area
- 38.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1609 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Corcomohide. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Corcomohide — 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.