placenamesCoolestown
Baile an Chúlaígh
Lewis recorded two attempts to work a silver-and-lead vein in Monasteroris parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chúlaígh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Coolestown · English · main form
Place & story
Ore that did not repay the effort
Monasteroris parish, also called Castropetre, lay within Coolestown barony. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records a vein containing silver and lead ore that had been worked twice and abandoned because it yielded too little. He also noted limestone quarries in the parish. The account places this mineral activity in a landscape crossed by the Grand Canal and bordered on several sides by the Bog of Allen. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coolestown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castropetre, or Monasteroris: 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.