placenamesIkerrin
Uí Chairín
Roscrea’s woollen work employed about a hundred people in the years before the Famine.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Uí Chairín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ikerrin · English · main form
Place & story
Clothmaking among the town’s trades
Henry Buckley established coarse woollen-cloth manufacture at Roscrea in 1822, according to Samuel Lewis. By his 1837 account it employed about a hundred people. Three flour mills, two breweries and two tanneries were also operating in the town, which supplied smaller neighbouring towns and traded the surrounding district’s produce. These are contemporary figures for Roscrea’s businesses, rather than totals for every workplace across Ikerrin. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ikerrin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Roscrea: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.