placenamesOran
Órán
Lewis recorded the dimensions and stonework of a reduced tower beside the old church remains.
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
- Órán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Oran · English · main form
Place & story
A small survival of the round tower
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Oran parish records a round-tower fragment standing twelve feet high. He gave its internal diameter as eleven feet three inches and the wall thickness as four feet six inches, noting two different kinds of limestone in its construction. Some remains of the old church also survived, while the roadside cemetery continued to receive burials and attract pilgrims. These measurements and observations describe the site as Lewis recorded it; they do not establish its present condition or the tower’s original height. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Oran — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-20. How this page was prepared.