placenamesCrecora
Craobh Chomhartha
Lewis recorded an estate rule that differed sharply from cultivation across the wider parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Craobh Chomhartha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Crecora · English · main form
Place & story
A restriction on ploughing
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes roughly two-thirds of Crecora parish in County Limerick as under tillage, chiefly producing wheat and potatoes. At Ashfort, however, he recorded a different arrangement: on an estate of two hundred acres, the farmer faced a heavy penalty if more than three acres were under tillage at one time. Lewis did not state the penalty’s amount or explain the rule’s purpose. [2]
A detached part near Adare
Lewis also described Kilgobban as a detached portion of the parish near Adare, forming an estate generally called Adare Farm. It accounted for 194 statute acres in his parish total. This historical detached district should be distinguished from the main body of Crecora and from the larger Catholic union that Lewis called Loughmore. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Coordinates
- 52.58957, -8.68073
- Mapped area
- 12.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1610 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Crecora. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Crecora, 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.