placenamesLoughkeen
Baile Locha Caoin
Lewis recorded a named flour-mill operator and different contributions towards the glebe-house and church.
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
- Baile Locha Caoin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Loughkeen · English · main form
Place & story
Christopher Dignam’s flour mills
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Loughkeen, printed as Lockeen, places Christopher Dignam’s flour mills at Carrig. The same account describes an improving arable district where green crops had become generally cultivated, with limestone available for building. It records a local milling enterprise without giving its output or number of workers. [2]
A gift and a loan for the glebe-house
The glebe-house received a £400 gift and £200 loan from the Board of First Fruits in 1829. Lewis separately recorded a £300 gift towards the church. The dated house funding should not be treated as either the church’s construction date or a single combined grant for both buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.06056, -7.96932
- Mapped area
- 43.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2203 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Loughkeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lockeen, Loughkeen or Loghcayne: 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.