placenamesArdcrony
Ard Cróine
Lewis records a land-reclamation scheme undertaken in 1800 by a clergyman associated with Mount Falcon.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ard Cróine · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardcrony · English · main form
Place & story
A changed patch of the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Ardcrony account describes the drainage of a lake in 1800 by the Reverend R. Falkiner of Mount Falcon. He estimated its area at about 172 plantation acres and described the reclaimed land as productive by the time he wrote. The historical acreage uses plantation measure, and the entry does not name the lake. This is a particular drainage scheme within the parish, rather than evidence that all its small bogs had been reclaimed. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.94394, -8.14653
- Mapped area
- 26.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2158 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardcrony. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardcroney: 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.