placenamesCloghprior
Cloch an Phrióra
Lewis’s parish account distinguishes Carney’s newer residence from the ruined stronghold beneath it.
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
- Cloch an Phrióra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghprior · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings at Carney
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Cloghprior distinguished a modern house at Carney Castle from the remains of an older castle. The house occupied part of the ancient building’s site and was then the residence of A. French. Lewis associated the older castle with the Grace family and reported that it had been attacked by Cromwell. His description therefore records a layered site, with a country residence beside or over earlier ruins, rather than an intact medieval castle serving as the nineteenth-century house. [2]
Demesnes and common land
Elsewhere in the parish, Lewis named Ashley Park as G. Atkinson’s residence and Prior Park as W. Waller’s, describing both demesnes as planted. Alongside those estates he recorded about 480 acres of common land. Most of the remaining land was cultivated, with relatively little bog, and a fee-paying school taught about eighty boys and forty girls. These are observations of the wider parish in 1837, rather than details confined to the Carney site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.94823, -8.19886
- Mapped area
- 15.4 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2170 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghprior. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloghprior — 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.