placenamesKinsalebeg
Cionn tSáile
Lewis places a river crossing and a flour mill in the parish’s nineteenth-century economy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cionn tSáile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kinsalebeg · English · main form
Place & story
A connection with Youghal
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Kinsalebeg across the Blackwater from Youghal and records a ferry serving the town. He also identifies a large flour mill at Piltown, within the parish. These are distinct elements of his description: a river crossing and a local processing industry. He supplies no timetable, landing place or traffic figures for the ferry, and does not describe how the mill transported its flour. The account therefore documents both activities without establishing that the ferry carried the mill’s output. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-within-Drum
- Coordinates
- 51.98093, -7.81302
- Mapped area
- 24.46 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2407 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kinsalebeg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kinsalebeg: 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.