placenamesKilcockan
Cill Chocáin
Lewis distinguished a Gothic residence from an older ruined castle in his 1837 parish account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chocáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcockan · English · main form
Place & story
A residence and a plan for the village
The newer Strancally Castle was J. Keily’s residence when Samuel Lewis described Kilcockan in 1837. Lewis characterised it as a large Gothic building within a planted estate of more than a thousand acres. He also recorded Keily’s intention to rebuild the village. That was a proposal in the account, rather than evidence that the rebuilding had occurred. [2]
The older ruin
Lewis separately described the ancient Strancally castle, formerly belonging to the Earls of Desmond. He reported that lightning had recently brought part of it down into the Blackwater. The distinction between this ruin and Keily’s newer residence prevents the two buildings’ histories being treated as one. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Coordinates
- 52.03536, -7.87916
- Mapped area
- 19.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2389 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcockan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcockan — 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.