placenamesCam
Camach
Lewis’s Camma entry records agricultural quarrying and an older castle landscape.
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
- Camach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cam · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for the land
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Cam, which he called Camma, as chiefly cultivated land with about 648 acres of bog. Limestone was being quarried for agricultural and other uses. His account places this extraction alongside farming, without identifying a particular quarry or giving its output. [2]
An older landscape at Curraboy
Lewis recorded ruins of a castle at Curraboy, attributing its construction to the Dillons, and noted several nearby raths or forts. He also described the old parish church as ruined, with its burial ground remaining. These are observations of the parish’s monuments in 1837; they do not establish their present condition or exact construction dates. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Coordinates
- 53.47894, -8.11590
- Mapped area
- 50.09 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2059 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cam. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Camma: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.